Last week I set the stage for my week of reading. My vacation to Duluth had many things going for it, but I anticipated a tremendous amount of Summer reading while sitting in our beautiful room perched out looking over Lake Superior. I noted down the massive library I was traveling with and proposed that I would report back on what exactly I read and what I thought of it.
This is the phase that we are entering into now.
I set the stage with the following books:
The Reading List:
Red Mars
A Memory Called Empire
Amari and the Night Brothers
HP and the Chamber of Secrets
HP and the Prisoner blah blah blah
Wilding
Feral
Encore Provence
Mystery book from a bookstore
As anticipated, it turns out that I bought multiple books from multiple bookstores in Duluth. These books were:
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
and
The Empty Grave
I also read aloud to my wife from a book she brought: The Murder on the Orient Express.
So, now that we have it, let us organize our complete list of books from my trip:
Red Mars
A Memory Called Empire
Amari and the Night Brothers
HP and the Chamber of Secrets
HP and the Prisoner blah blah blah
Wilding
Feral
Encore Provence
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World
The Empty Grave
The Murder on the Orient Express
This constitutes 12 books. I read a tiny bit of all of them just so I would have rights (in my own mind) to discuss them. But some of that reading was token. I read three books start to finish. I read half or more of three more of these books, and I still expect to finish them at some point. Of the remaining six books there are various reasons for the small amounts I read, most of them having to do with how I can only read so much in a week, but a variety of other reasons come into play.
We will take a look at our books one to four books at a time. Tomorrow's post will discuss the first two, Red Mars and A Memory Called Empire. We will proceed from there in small chunks.
I hope you'll come along on the reading journey.
You may even find something to read for yourself!
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