re: 2023 Reading Challenge

Bump.

Finally got around to reading “Rhythm of War,” which I guess will start my official “Year of Sanderson” like his Kickstarter. I guess “The Lost Metal” will be next, followed by the two already shipped from the Kickstarter.

I’ll probably read something different between them, though.

Bump after pretty much not reading for the month of June now at 11 of 24 and got a 2 weeks to knock out Skyward 2 which shouldn’t be an issue to be on pace to finish the year. Thinking bout trying out Abercrombie or The Black company for second half of the year along with finishing Stormlight reread/finishing up Skyward/secret projects.

And made it halfway to goal little before halfway to year

Finished #50 this morning. I underestimated myself

Bump

Goal of 20, update

1. All about love - bell hooks
2. Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
3. When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chodron
4. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
5. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
6. Tress of the Emerald Sea - Brandon Sanderson
7. Killers of the Flower Moon - David Grann

for the past 20 years or so, ive been a nonfiction reader, maybe 1 or 2 a year. used to love sci fi as a kid. then, this new year, something just clicked in my brain and i started reading fiction again, and ive been straight up addicted. havent touched my xbox hardly at all this year. dont have a goal, just reading.

1. Shadow of the Torturer, Wolfe
2. Claw of the Conciliator, Wolfe
3. Sword of the Lictor, Wolfe
4. Citadel of the Autarch, Wolfe
5. Three Body Problem, Liu
6. Dark Forest, Liu
7. Urth of the New Sun, Wolfe
8. Deaths End, Liu
9. Hyperion, Simmons
10. Fall of Hyperion, Simmons
11. Between Two Fires, Buelhman
12. Annihilation, Vandermeer
13. Authority, Vandermeer
14. Acceptance, Vandermeer
15. What Moves the Dead, Kinfisher
16. Borne, Vandermeer
17. Blood Meridian, McCarthy
18. Roadside Picnic, Sturgatsky's
19. Nightside the Long Sun, Wolfe
20. Lake of the Long Sun, Wolfe
21. The Strange Bird, Vandermeer
22. Black Easter, Blish
23. The Day After Judgment, Blish
24. Blindsight, Watts
25. Calde of the Long Sun, Wolfe
26. Exodus from the Long Sun, Wolfe
27. Blood Music, Bear
28. Dune, Herbert
29. Dune Messiah, Herbert
30. On Blues Waters, Wolfe
31. In Greens Jungles, Wolfe
32. Return to the Whorl, Wolfe
33. The Sumerians; History, Culture, Character, Kramer
34. The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov
35. Neuromancer, Gibson
36. Dawn, Butler
currently reading Children of Dune

standouts so far Book of the New Sun tetrology, Area X trilogy. Three Body trilogy, Blindsight, Dune, Dawn

disappointments, Book the Long Sun tetrology, Between Two Fires, In Greens Jungles

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Any recs for my next nonfiction?

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1776 by David McCullough

I'll jump in super late. I had no idea there was a book board until yesterday. I was shooting for 24 this year. I've managed to surpass that already. Though some of these books were shorter than what I typically read. I'm getting into the thicker WoT books right now so I expect my pace to slow down through the end of the year. Also, to be transparent, all of these are via audiobook for me. Its what I do when I'm driving or doing work around the house.

1 - Elantris - Sanderson
2 - The Hobbit - Tolkien
3 - The Fellowship of the Ring - Tolkien
4 - The Two Towers - Tolkien
5 - Return of the King - Tolkien
6 - Hail Mary - Weir
7 - Skyward - Sanderson
8 - Starsight - Sanderson
9 - Cytonic - Sanderson
10 - Steelheart - Sanderson
11 - Firefight - Sanderson
12 - Calamity - Sanderson
13 - Tress of the Emerald Sea - Sanderson
14 - The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England - Sanderson
15 - Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising - Zahn
16 - Thrawn Ascendancy: Greater Good - Zahn
17 - Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil - Zahn
18 - Thrawn - Zahn
19 - Thrawn: Alliances - Zahn
20 - Thrawn: Treason - Zahn
21 - Yumi and the Nightmare Painter - Sanderson
22 - The Eye of the World - Jordan
23 - The Great Hunt - Jordan
24 - The Dragon Reborn - Jordan
25 - The Shadow Rising - Jordan
26 - The Fires of Heaven - Jordan
27 - The Sunlit Man - Sanderson
28 - Lord of Chaos - Jordan
29 - A Crown of Swords - Jordan
30 - Skyward Flight - Sanderson
31 - Defiant - Sanderson
32 - Winter’s Heart - Jordan

Stopping here for the year since I won’t be able to finish Crossroads of twilight by years end