Month 48 of 260 (18.46 percent)
Size of list: 90,793 pages (16.5 percent above start)
Pages read: 24,734 (27.24 percent)
H-list: 6,673/23,907 (27.91 percent)
N-list: 9,492/36,960 (25.68 percent)
O-list: 8,359/29,742 (28.1 percent)
Reading: A Crown of Swords, The Soft Machine
Finished: Barrayar
Added: The Calculating Stars, Space Opera
It turns out that a medication I was on was exacerbating the issues from real life. When I dropped it, I started being able to read again.
Barrayar is book 2 by internal chronology, book 7 by publication order, of the Vorkosigan series. It has a little more science-fiction to it -- Cordelia is living on Barrayar, which was cut off from the rest of humanity for 80 years, and therefore is culturally and technologically different from what she is used to. And one result is that reproduction, for her, should involve uterine replicators, which leads to drama when she has to rescue her own unborn son, with some additional complications, of course. The action and the characters are more interesting in this one than the first one, which sums up why it won a Hugo. But even though there's only one more Hugo winner in this series, I'll probably just keep going. It's a fun series so far.
I added The Calculating Stars because it won the Hugo, and Space Opera because I wanted it to win.
Reading: A Crown of Swords, The Soft Machine
Finished: Barrayar
Added: The Calculating Stars, Space Opera
It turns out that a medication I was on was exacerbating the issues from real life. When I dropped it, I started being able to read again.
Barrayar is book 2 by internal chronology, book 7 by publication order, of the Vorkosigan series. It has a little more science-fiction to it -- Cordelia is living on Barrayar, which was cut off from the rest of humanity for 80 years, and therefore is culturally and technologically different from what she is used to. And one result is that reproduction, for her, should involve uterine replicators, which leads to drama when she has to rescue her own unborn son, with some additional complications, of course. The action and the characters are more interesting in this one than the first one, which sums up why it won a Hugo. But even though there's only one more Hugo winner in this series, I'll probably just keep going. It's a fun series so far.
I added The Calculating Stars because it won the Hugo, and Space Opera because I wanted it to win.
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