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10/05 The Compleat Werewolf (Retro Hugo Nominee), Anthony Boucher
10/10 Good Omens, Pratchett & Gaimen (rr)
10/12 Hogfather (DW 20), Pratchett (rr)
10/15 Jingo (DW 21), Pratchett (rr)
10/20 The Last Continent (DW 22), Pratchett (rr)
10/21 Exit Strategy, Murderbot 4, Martha Wells
10/21 Rogue Protocol, Murderbot 3, Martha Wells

11/01 Mr. Penumbra’s 24 hour Book Store, Robin Sloan
11/21 Carpe Jugulum (DW 23), Pratchett (rr)
11/23 The Fifth Elephant (DW 24), Pratchett (rr)

12/02 Artemis Fowl, Eoin Coffler
12/05 Paladin of Souls, Lois McMasters Bujold
12/14 Russian Roulette, Michael Isikoff & David Korn
12/17 The Truth (DW 25), Pratchett (rr)
12/20 Midnight Riot (Rivers of London 1), Ben Aaronovitch
12/22 Thief of Time (DW 26), Pratchett (rr)
12/24 The Last Hero (DW 27), Pratchett (rr)
12/28 The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (DW 28), Pratchett (rr)

Seventeen books for the final quarter of 2018. No physical books completed though a few were progressed, ten of these seventeen were re-reads.

My total of the year is SEVENTY books read! I think that is a record for me: 2017 was 42, ‘16 48, ‘15 and ‘14 were 18 and 2013 was 19, 2012 was 41 and that was the first year that I kept tab. Of course this was a year that I started re-reading the entire output of Terry Pratchett, and I can knock-off a Discworld book in two days easily, so that helps.

39 books were re-reads, obviously lots of those were Pratchetts as I got up to #28 plus Good Omens and also re-read John Scalzi’s output. No physical books were included in this year’s count as this list is almost exclusively science fiction and fantasy. I did include Hugo nominations, but only novel and novella nominees.

On to commentary! And I’m going to combine the Discworld books together and also the two Murderbot stories together.

I’ll be doing a later post on what I think were the most notable reads of the year.
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07/09 Singularity Sky, Charles Stross
07/12 The Shockwave Rider, John Brunner
07/13 Top Secret Recipes, Todd Wilbur
07/14 Zen Flesh, Zen Bones, compiled by Paul Reps (rr)
07/15 The Tao of Pooh, Benjamin Hoff (rr)
07/17 Tao Te Ching
07/20 How to Travel with a Salmon, Umberto Eco
07/23 Mort (DW 4), Pratchett (rr)
07/23 Sourcery (DW 5), Pratchett (rr)
07/24 The Light Fantastic (DW 2), Pratchett (rr)
07/25 Equal Rites (DW 3), Pratchett (rr)
07/26 Wyrd Sisters (DW 6), Pratchett (rr)
07/27 Eric (DW 9), Pratchett (rr)
07/30 Pyramids (DW 7), Pratchett (rr)

08/03 Moving Pictures (DW 10), Pratchett (rr)
08/11 Snow Crash, Neil Stephenson (rr~)
08/15 Reaper Man (DW 11), Pratchett (rr)
08/20 Witches Abroad (DW 12), Pratchett (rr)
08/22 Small Gods (DW 13), Pratchett (rr)

09/02 Lords and Ladies (DW 14), Pratchett (rr)
09/06 Men at Arms (DW 15), Pratchett (rr)
09/08 Soul Music (DW 16), Pratchett (rr)
09/12 Interesting Times (DW 17), Pratchett (rr)
09/20 Maskerade (DW 18), Pratchett (rr)
09/24 Feet of Clay (DW 19), Pratchett (rr)

These 25 plus the previous 36 brings me up to 61 as of the end of September, so well beyond one a week average. Pratchetts are quick reads, that helps a lot, it's easy to knock off two or three a week if I'm not otherwise very busy.

HUGE amount of re-reads, mainly because I started re-reading my Terry Pratchett cannon in June and continued. Of 25 books read, none were physical and five were first-time reads with one, Snow Crash, being what I thought was a re-read but there was so much material that I didn’t recognize I think that I had never read the whole thing through. Most likely I read an excerpt in Analog Magazine or something.

The reason for the dive in to Buddhism is I had a dream that was crazy vivid and made for a really cool short story, but was set at a Buddhist temple. I’ve read two of those books before, so I re-read them and started reading some more. The story is still in progress and is far beyond short story length, in fact it’s forked and spun-off into a sort of origin story for the protagonist. It continues in fits and starts.

On to the comments! I’m going to change the order a bit so that the non-Discworld books are together, which only requires moving Snow Crash.
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Books Read, Jan-March 2018

01/14 Scissors Cut Paper Wrap Stone, Ian McDonald
01/28 Trigger Warning, Neil Gaiman
01/31 Whose Body, Dorothy Sayers

02/02 Cold Welcome (Vatta's Peace 1), Elizabeth Moon
02/05 Dimension of Miracles, Robert Sheckley
02/12 Ashes of Honor, Seanan McGuire
02/18 Overclocked, Cory Doctorow
02/20 Chimes At Midnight, Seanan McGuire
02/22 The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O, Neil Stephenson & Nicole Galland
02/24 Guards! Guards! Sir Pterry Pratchett (rr)
02/26 Friday, Robert A. Heinlein (rr)

03/02 Killed at the Whim of a Hat, Colin Cotterill
03/13 The Winter Long, Seanan McGuire
03/17 A Red-Rose Chain, Seanan McGuire
03/20 Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wolff
03/28 The Android’s Dream, John Scalzi (rr)
03/31 Agent to the Stars, John Scalzi (rr)

Sixteen (adjusted from seventeen) books in the first quarter this year, none physical, four re-reads, and one political.

More detailed discussion under the cut.
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