December Wrap Up
In December I read four books...
- The Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell, part of The Saxon Stories series. I'm giving up on this series, I just find the misogyny a lack of creativity rather than historically accurate. It's lazy writing to have the bad guys do the same thing every single time, just to prove how bad they are. I might return to it, but I doubt it.
- Ascent to Godhood by JY Yang, the final book in the Tensorate series. This was gorgeous, and the complete opposite to the previous book. I thoroughly recommend this series.
- A Companion to Paleopathology edited by Anne L Grauer. An interesting collection of essays, but not one I'd recommend for a casual reader.
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. I understand why everyone who reads it recommends it. The plot is tense and brilliant, but the characters are just... The only character I liked was Jasper the dog. The narrator could easily have avoided all of her problems by not marrying Maxim, who barely treated her right before proposing marriage.
January TBR
For 2021, my aim is to lower the number of books I own. My reading goals are in the same post as my reading statistics, so feel free to take a look there. For January however, let's introduce something new...
Throughout 2021 I will continue logging my reading, as I have done for two years, but I will be adding a few extras. I have added a points system based on Read for Initiative by Hugo nominee Claire Rousseau. She created the game for her reading for 2020, but I'm making a couple of changes so it works for me, and merging in some other bits too.
Ultimately, I'll be earning points for each book I read for different reasons, based on page counts. I'll get bonus points for how quickly I read the book as well, but I'll lose points for every book I abandon. Every 1,000 points I get a level up, and I get to treat myself. Reading for my degree will count towards this. On top of that, I'm hosting a reading challenge on The Story Graph which is all about mixing genres, and a few other challenges on there too. I'm also aiming to read one ARC a month if possible. I'm also doing a buddy read of the Brendon Sanderson books, my MA dissertation, and probably having a crisis or two over taking on too much. If I don't know what to pick each month, I also have a TBR game to pick at random from a list of prompts which you can find on my reading log.
I think that's enough exposition. My TBR for January...
- Rick Riordan's series Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- The Lightning Thief
- The Sea of Monsters
- The Titan's Curse
- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- The Demigod Files
- The Last Olympian
- Brendon Sanderson's Misborn series
- The Final Empire
That's my plan for January, how about you?
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