Book roundup, Jan-June 2011

eBooks

• Mission of Honor by David Weber
  
• Storm Front by Jim Butcher
  
• Fool Moon by Jim Butcher - Dresden Files book 2
  
• Grave Peril by Jim Butcher
  
• Summer Knight by Jim Butcher
  
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  
• In Fire Forged by David Weber
  
• I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett
  
• Cryoburn by Lois McMaster Bujold
  
• Blackout by Connie Willis
  
• All Clear by Connie Willis
  
• Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
  
• Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  
• Changes by Jim Butcher
  
• Variable Star by Robert Heinlein and Spider Robinson
  
• Agatha H and the Airship City
  
• The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
  
• Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
  
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  
• Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell
  
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  
• Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke
  

Audiobooks

• The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton
  
• Mars Life by Ben Bova
  
• Death Masks by Jim Butcher
  
• Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
  
• Dead Beat by Jim Butcher
  
• Proven Guilty by Jim Butcher
  
• White Night by Jim Butcher
  
• Small Favor by Jim Butcher
  
• Turn Coat by Jim Butcher
  
• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by H.K. Jenisin
  
• Feed by Mira Grant
  
• The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen J Gould
  
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  
• Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
  
• Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
  
• Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings
  
• Magician's Gambit by David Eddings
  
• Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings
  
• Enchanter's End Game by David Eddings
  

Audio lectures:

• Cycles of American Political Thought from TTC
  
• Victorian Britain by Patrick Allitt, from TTC
  

eBooks: 22
Audiobooks: 19
Audio lectures: 2

I think this is the first time since I've started using audiobooks that I've read more books in print than in audio, and I'm pretty sure this is the most books I've ever read in 6 months. It's been fun and my reading speed is getting better. I've never been happy with my reading speed but if I push it, my retention drops to zero. If I read a paragraph much faster than my normal speed, I couldn't tell you what it was about at all. So I have to push the speed up slowly.

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Audiobook finished

Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind

I'm starting to warm to the series a bit. A while back I saw someone list the series as the best thing they'd ever read. This definitely isn't that for me, I think it might be in the top 100 but only barely if so. Still, 2nd book was at least as good as the 1st book which is always a good sign; too many series die after the first book or never seem to get anywhere.