In 2018 I read 60 books.
In 2019, I read 46 (in my defense, a couple of them were whoppers of over 600 pages!)
IN 2020, I read 43, but there were NO cartoon anthologies on the list this time!
So let's see how many books we can all read in 2021!
Start your list in the replies and update it when you finish a new one!
JANUARY
Jan. 17 - PRESIDENT WITHOUT A PARTY: THE LIFE OF JOHN TYLER by Christopher J. Leahy
Jan. 23 - THE TWO TOWERS by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jan. 28 - THE EXPATRIATION OF FRANKLIN PIERCE by Garry Boulard
Jan. 29 - OLD BONES by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
FEBRUARY
Feb. 2 - DRACUL by Dacre Stoker and J.D. Barker
Feb. 9 - THE WORST PRESIDENT: THE STORY OF JAMES BUCHANAN by Garry Boullard
Feb. 13 - THE RETURN OF THE KING by J.R.R. Tolkien
Feb. 14 - THE SCORPION'S TAIL by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Feb. 16 - THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson
Feb. 17 - RELIQUARY by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Feb. 18 - THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
MARCH
Mar. 8 - ZACHARY TAYLOR: SOLDIER, PLANTER, STATESMAN OF THE OLD SOUTHWEST by K. Jack Bauer
Mar. 10 - THE EMPEROR'S REVENGE by Clive Cussler and Boyd Morrison
mar. 13 - TYRANNOSAUR CANYON by Douglas Preston
Mar. 19 - 1421: THE YEAR THE CHINESE DISCOVERED AMERICA by Gavin Menzies
APRIL
Apr. 17 - THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE PATH TO POWER by Robert A. Caro
Apr. 18 - THE CASE FOR JESUS by Brant Pitre
Apr. 23 - PIRATE by Clive Cussler
MAY
May 7 SAM HOUSTON by James Haley
JUNE
June 11 - CROMWELL: OUR CHIEF OF MEN by Antonia Fraser
June 30 - ENDLESS NIGHTS by Neil Gaiman
JULY
July 2 - HITLER: ASCENT by Volker Ullrich
July 5 - RIPTIDE by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
July 7 - BURIED SECRETS by Irene Hannon
July 13 - HAMILTON VERSUS WALL STREET by Nancy Spannaus
AUGUST
Aug. 5 - FOUNDATIONS OF FEAR, edited by David G. Hartwell
Aug. 7 - ROUGH DIAMOND: THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S FORGOTTEN SON, WILLIAM STEPHEN HAMILTON by Angela Fielding
Aug. 10 - THE LAST ORACLE by James Rollins
Aug. 13 - The sandman: PRELUDE AND NOCTURNE by Neil Gaiman
Aug. 19 - I ALONE CAN FIX IT by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker
Aug. 24 - ENDLESS NIGHTS by Neil Gaiman
September
Sept. 1 - THE YEARS OF LYNDON JOHNSON: MEANS OF ASCENT by Robert Caro
Sept. 7 - PONTIUS PILATUS: DARK PASSAGE TO HEAVEN by Michael Ponzio
Sept. 12 - ALEXANDER HAMILTON'S GUIDE TO LIFE by Jeff Wilser
Sept. 28 - The Sandman: THE DOLL HOUSE by Neil Gaiman
October:
Oct. 1 - The Sandman: DREAM COUNTRY by Neil Gaiman
Oct. 7 - The Sandman: SEASON OF MISTS by Neil Gaiman
Oct. 29 - The Sandman: A GAME OF YOU by Neil Gaiman
November
Nov. 1 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert Caro
Nov. 9 - THE KRAKEN PROJECT by Douglas Preston
Nov. 13 - FABLES AND REFLECTIONS by Neil Gaiman
Nov. 27 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: THE PASSAGE OF POWER by Robert Caro
December
Dec. 3 - PRESIDENT HAMILTON: A NOVEL OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY by Lewis Ben Smith
(Yes, I read my own books for entertainment. They're THAT good! LOL )
Dec. 14 - VALLEY FORGE by Bob Drury and Tom Clavin
Dec. 22 - WE THE SONS by Scarlet Ingstad
Dec. 26 - MORE THAN A SKELETON by Paul Maier
Quote from: indianasmith on December 31, 2020, 11:45:44 PM
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JANUARY
Jan. 17 - PRESIDENT WITHOUT A PARTY: THE LIFE OF JOHN TYLER by Christopher J. Leahy
How did you like it?
Jan.
Players Guide to the Sword Coast.
The Magic Engineer.
Armies of the Soviet Union.
Feb.
The Order Wars.
Players Handbook.
Dungeon Masters Guide.
Monster Manual.
Mar.
The Complete Warrior.
Monster Manual II.
Anticipating the release of the newest hardcopy collection, I've been plowing my way through the Girl Genius books again. Also currently making my way through the TV series The Expanse on Amazon and am considering checking out the books they're adapted from.
Jan
finished Bonsai Babies. It's a collection of short stories written by someone I actually know through my fencing classes.
January: Mark Fisher, "The Weird and the Eerie"
April: Yoko Ogawa, "The Memory Police"
May: Cathal Tohill and Pete Tombs, "Immoral Tales" (re-read)
Ingrid Nunez, "What Are You Going Through?"
July: Guillaume Apollinaire, "Selected Writings"
September: Jean Cocteau, "The Art of Cinema"
Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss, "The Fifty Worst Movies of All Time (and How They Got That Way)"
November: "A Hedonist Manifesto"
(Boy, it seems like I must have read something else and forgotten to update it, but I can't remember what for sure.)
JAN
Killing England by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard
Finished in Feb
Just My Type: A book about Fonts by Simon Garfiled
Crently working on Gun Runner by Larry Correia and John D. Brown.
This year I finished
Bonsai Babies by Nacy Tuzzilo
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfiled
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
Not necessarily going for a certain of books, I'm just trying to read more in general.
Finished Exile's Quest. Started The Space Mavericks, by Michael Kring.
There's a book coming out this week called The Last House on Needless Street that I want to check out. Heard about it? Stephen King described it as Gone Girl meets Hill House. That description's a hooker right there.
I just started reading "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" by William L Shirer
Finished The Space Mavericks. Wow; that was bad. It just piles one new, ridiculous plot point on top of another till there's enough for it to be called a novel, & the writing's flat, with a lot of sentence fragments.
Started Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber. Heard good things about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, the book's characters, so I decided to try it.
Quote from: pacman000 on April 06, 2021, 03:14:02 PM
Started Swords Against Death by Fritz Leiber. Heard good things about Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, the book's characters, so I decided to try it.
I am a fan of Fritz Leiber. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Finished Swords Against Death. Started The Ship of Ishtar by A. Merritt.
This year I finished
Bonsai Babies by Nacy Tuzzilo
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfiled
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our worst Fears. by Stephen T .Asma
How to See by George Nelson
The Occult Mafia by Ryan Collins
One of REH's non Conan stories 'Almuric'.
PASSION OF THE MUMMY(2021) by Frank Dello Stritto
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i'm in the middle of reading one called Nightshade by John Saul (2000) a favorite author of mine and man is this a really weird one and Saul has done some pretty weird Sh*t so that's saying something. the man likes to say he's not horror and he doesn't get why in bookstores he's listed as horror but than there's a scene in this book no joke where the big bad took someone's skin off their hands and than wore them like a glove to smack the f... out of someone now if that isn't horror i dunno what is.
well i finished it early this morning and wow was it a f... up one but also a really good one too, a reviewer tried to describe it and he had a hard time doing so and i really get why to be honest. at one point in the book you had a kid's stepfather get shot and and he blacks out near the end of the book i mean like really about 95% close to the end or so we find out he had help but the one person who helped him do it cause he was aiming for a deer well we find out he he was forced to kill his stepfather and his arguement was that it never was brought up at all in the book and i can see why he would think that be an issue,
but if you decide to read this book you can also see why it was never brought up at least in my eyes anyways. i'd say 8/10
Achtung Panzer! by Heinz Guiderian.
these are the books i read this year thus far
1. Mr. Mercedes-Stephen King
2. Killer's Wedge- Ed McBain
3. Till Death- Ed McBain
4. Death Du Jour- Kathy Reichs
5. Unnatural Causes- Patrica Cornwell
6. Point of Origin- Patrica Cornwell
7. Scarpetta's Winter Table- Patrica Cornwell
8. Black Notice- Patrica Cornwell
9. Nightshade- John Saul
10. Centaur Aisle- Piers Anthony
there's a Stephen King website i belong to and someone posted that so far they've read 50 books this year! now that i think about it i wonder if they have been audio books? but if they are actual books than damn... i've never read that many in a year in my entire life! has anyone here?
This year I finished
Bonsai Babies by Nancy Tuzzilo
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfiled
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our worst Fears. by Stephen T .Asma
How to See by George Nelson
The Occult Mafia by Ryan Collins
Mars Girls by Nancy Tuzzilo
Despite a long gap between those last two-I have been reading more books this year.
I just finished reading an interesting adaption of Phantom of the Opera.
This version actually fix one of the major problems I had had with other adaptions of the story.
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Other versions didn't have nearly enough Muppets.
Finished The Ship of Ishtar.
This year I finished
Bonsai Babies by Nancy Tuzzilo
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfiled
The Animators by Kayla Rae Whitaker
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of our worst Fears. by Stephen T .Asma
How to See by George Nelson
The Occult Mafia by Ryan Collins
Mars Girls by Nancy Tuzzilo
Murder in the Cultral Gardens by Dan Hansen
Lights Camera Puzzles by Parnell Kall
You can't make this stuff up by Lee Gutkind