Book list, 2nd half of 2008
Dec. 31st, 2008 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnridleyBack on July 2nd, I listed the books I read in the first half of the year. Here are the books I've finished since then.
Audiobooks:
Audio lectures:
Print (ebook)
No dead trees this time around.
Totals Jan-Jun:
Audiobooks: 26
Print: 10 (2 on paper)
All: 36
Totals Jul-Dec:
Audiobooks: 27
Lectures: 4
Print: 13
all: 44
Total for 2008: 80
That's probably pretty skimpy for a lot of you, but it's frankly astounding for me. I've gone entire years without reading a single book, in the last 10 years. I decided this was shameful, and resolved to turn that around. While I have gotten really into a few series in the last 18 months and racked up a lot of books in those series, I've done some work on expanding the field a bit, and I'm generally pretty happy that I've read a few books in genres that I've not historically been much into.
One of the Weber books was co-written by Eric Flint - I may check out some of his alternate history books. I'm honestly completely ghastly at history - I am interested to read about it but I seem to be completely incapable of retaining any of it, dates, names, or sequences of events.
I've generally been pretty put off by most fantasy, but I think I might give a few of the major series a try next year.
Audiobooks:
- Lords & Ladies (Pratchett)
- The Sea & Little Fishes (Pratchett)
- Asteroid War series: The Precipice / The Rock Rats / The Silent War / Aftermath (Bova)
- Honor Harrington series: On Basilisk Station / The Honor of the Queen / The Short Victorious War / Field of Dishonor / Flag in Exile / Once A Hero / Honor Among Enemies / In Enemy Hands / Rules of Engagement / Echoes of Honor / Ashes of Victory / War of Honor / At All Costs / Crown of Slaves
- (OMW #2,3) The Ghost Brigades / The Last Colony (Scalzi)
- Barsoom: A Princess of Mars / The Gods of Mars / Warlord of Mars / Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Burroughs)
- Orion (Bova)
Audio lectures:
- Science in the 20th Century - A Social-Intellectual Survey
- A History of St Patrick
- Science Fiction - The Literature of the Technological Imagination
- Search for Intelligent Life in Space
Print (ebook)
- Winning Colors / Change of Command / Against the Odds (Moon)
- His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass
- Rainbow's End (Vinge)
- 1984 (Orwell)
- The Lost Colony / The Time Paradox (Colfer)
- Seventh Son / Red Prophet (Card)
- The Graveyard Book (Gaiman)
No dead trees this time around.
Totals Jan-Jun:
Audiobooks: 26
Print: 10 (2 on paper)
All: 36
Totals Jul-Dec:
Audiobooks: 27
Lectures: 4
Print: 13
all: 44
Total for 2008: 80
That's probably pretty skimpy for a lot of you, but it's frankly astounding for me. I've gone entire years without reading a single book, in the last 10 years. I decided this was shameful, and resolved to turn that around. While I have gotten really into a few series in the last 18 months and racked up a lot of books in those series, I've done some work on expanding the field a bit, and I'm generally pretty happy that I've read a few books in genres that I've not historically been much into.
One of the Weber books was co-written by Eric Flint - I may check out some of his alternate history books. I'm honestly completely ghastly at history - I am interested to read about it but I seem to be completely incapable of retaining any of it, dates, names, or sequences of events.
I've generally been pretty put off by most fantasy, but I think I might give a few of the major series a try next year.
