Sunday, September 13, 2020

Month 61: Surfacing from the Pandemic

 Month 61 of 260 (23.46 percent)

Size of list: 92,362 pages (18.75 percent above start)
Pages read: 28,977 (31.37 percent)

H-list: 7,899/24,144 (32.72 percent)
N-list: 10,716/37,308 (28.72 percent)

O-list: 10,362/30,910 (33.52 percent)

Reading: Foundation's Edge, From a Certain Point of View
Finished: The Stone Sky, The Path of Daggers

I haven't updated this in seven months, but I haven't been reading much in that time either. We're still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Working from home really cut into my desire to read at the end of the day or on the weekend. I've been slowly recovering my focus, enough to finish a book even, but it's still a problem. 

Before we went into lockdown I finished The Stone Sky. It was good but not groundbreaking like the first volume. I suppose that's how it goes with trilogies sometimes. (Then I had to hold on to the book for five months waiting for the library to accept its books back.)

I picked up From A Certain Point of View, which is a book of short stories about incidental characters from Star Wars, so it lends itself to noncommital consumption. That helped me get back on the horse. I still have plenty of it to read, but I think I'm about two-thirds of the way through. There were a lot of stories about people in the cantina, and I'm on the Death Star now.

The Path of Daggers, book 8 of The Wheel of Time, was okay. It was better than book 7, at least. And for once it ended on a cliffhanger, making me a little more eager to pick up book 9.