Month 8 of 260 (3.08 percent)
Size of list: 80,694 pages (3.7 percent greater than starting size)
Pages read: 4,192 (5.19 percent)
H-list: 1,285/22,219 (5.78 percent)
N-list: 1,266/35,009 (3.25 percent)
O-list: 1,641/23,466 (6.99 percent)
Finished: none
Reading: The Dispossessed, The Great Hunt, The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft (no progress this month)
Added: Labyrinth of Evil
Removed: The Courtship of Princess Leia
On the one hand, this is about books, not my life. On the other hand, it's a 20-year record. So I'll note a couple things for perspective: just before this month began, my dad died; just as this month ends, our foster baby went back to his birth mother. This month's anemic reading performance was influenced by two other major factors: I spent a lot of time reading the Hugo nominees for best novella (which was an amazing experience), and (and I wonder how this will look in 19 years) this is the month Pokemon Go came out.
So, not making any progress, the real significance is that last month I added a book, and this month I removed it. I decided that The Courtship of Princess Leia, a Star Wars book that directly follows the Wraith Squadron arc of the X-Wing series, isn't worth it. It's reportedly not good. In exchange, I added a Star Wars book that is reportedly good. This seems like a minor change, but it's king of a big deal for me to allow myself to take back adding a book. I wonder if, in the future, I'll dump a book that started out on the plan. An O-List book would be less a big deal than an N-List book; an H-List book is unthinkable to me now.
Removed: The Courtship of Princess Leia
On the one hand, this is about books, not my life. On the other hand, it's a 20-year record. So I'll note a couple things for perspective: just before this month began, my dad died; just as this month ends, our foster baby went back to his birth mother. This month's anemic reading performance was influenced by two other major factors: I spent a lot of time reading the Hugo nominees for best novella (which was an amazing experience), and (and I wonder how this will look in 19 years) this is the month Pokemon Go came out.
So, not making any progress, the real significance is that last month I added a book, and this month I removed it. I decided that The Courtship of Princess Leia, a Star Wars book that directly follows the Wraith Squadron arc of the X-Wing series, isn't worth it. It's reportedly not good. In exchange, I added a Star Wars book that is reportedly good. This seems like a minor change, but it's king of a big deal for me to allow myself to take back adding a book. I wonder if, in the future, I'll dump a book that started out on the plan. An O-List book would be less a big deal than an N-List book; an H-List book is unthinkable to me now.
