The good thing is that a lot of my pile is digital so it's not taking up space except on my Kindle. Here's my list so far:
- Escape From Ensenada by Harris T. Vincent (60% done on my Kindle)
- Empire State by Adam Christopher (14% done with paperback according to Goodreads)
- The After by Briane Pagel (Kindle)
- A Sudden Vengeance Waits by Nik Morton (Kindle) (She works for my publisher, so I'm going to suck up by reading it and giving it a five-star review!)
- Room by Emma Donoghue (Kindle)
- Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (Kindle)
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Kindle)
- Game of Thrones by George RR Martin (Paperback)
- The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/The High Window/Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler (Hardcover)
- The Life of Raymond Chandler by Frank MacShane (paperback)
- Cobra War III by Timothy Zahn (Paperback) (I'd like to read the first two first though)
You might wonder, why the backlog? I spent pretty much all of January rereading the other seven Tales of the Scarlet Knight books on my Kindle. I have no idea if those will get published at some point, but I figured I might as well go through and make some basic corrections anyway. Plus I've got the three Chances Are books to finish editing. (Those are the ones about the dude who becomes a chick I mentioned previously. I finally settled on some title names.) That's pretty much eliminated any time for reading other books. But soon I should be done with that stuff and can get started on catching up. Because for one thing my Goodreads book challenge looks terrible right now, saying I only read 1 book this year when really it's more like 9.
I haven't read any of those, but heard Room is outstanding. I have a fresh LOTR boxed set waiting for me too.
ReplyDeleteI read the Handmaid's tale, but that was about ten years ago. Her Sci Fi is her best stuff IMHO.
ReplyDeleteI'm in Rach's campaign with you, in the Sci Fi category, so Hi!
Handmaid's Tale is great. Hopefully you get a chance to enjoy it, haha.
ReplyDeleteMy backlog jumped when I got a Fire for Xmas and downloaded a bunch of free classics. By the way, following you from the campaign!
Reading the book on the kindle is a good exercise. I'm in editing mode on my sequel. BTW...I appreciate the tips you dropped for me on my blog today.
ReplyDeleteI have several books on my nightstand, most of them Christmas presents, but I haven't gotten to them yet. Once it took four years to read one (Private Lives of the Impressionists) but it was worth the wait.
ReplyDeleteBoy, I've never heard of any of these, but that number two title really sounds like the kind of thing you'd want to buy about thirty copies of and give to friends as presents. Just has that feel to it, you know?
ReplyDeleteI read "Room." It was phenomenal and really deeply depressing and unsettling, but I couldn't stop reading it -- I had to force myself sometimes to just quit because I was getting sadder. It's one of the best books I've ever read.
So was Jonathan Strange, which is kind of like if Dickens had written Harry Potter. I read that when I was laid up after back surgery, and have loved it forever.
I'm sure it won't hurt that other author's credibility that you publicly announced you'd be giving him a good grade. That's the kind of reliability we're looking for in an internet reviewer.
I'd recommend skipping number 6 myself. But that's just me. I really struggled with that one.
ReplyDeleteHooray I finished #1 on my list! Now the question is just which one to do next.
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