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Fiction books
Peter S Beagle. The Last Unicorn (e)
Marshall Browne. The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders
William Gibson. Neuromancer
Max Gladstone. Three Parts Dead (e)
James McGee. Wolf's Lair
Caroline Stevermer. A College of Magics (re-read)

In progress
Antony Johnston. The Dog Sitter Detective

Abandoned
James P Blaylock. The Last Coin (e)
Olaf Stapledon. Last and First Men

Non-fiction books
Erik Larson. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
MV Woodgate. St Vincent de Paul

In progress
John Green. The Anthropocene Reviewed (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Jack Weatherford. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (e)

Fiction books
Terry Pratchett, Stephen Briggs. Monstrous Regiment (stage adaptation)
Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner. The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition (re-read) (ish)
Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Lee Sullivan. Cry Fox (e)
Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Lee Sullivan. Water Weed (e)
Brian Daley. Han Solo at Stars' End
Mark Dunn. Ella Minnow Pea (e)
Dashiell Hammett. Red Harvest (e)
CS Lewis. Till We Have Faces
Jean Webster. Daddy-Long-Legs (e) (re-read)
Jean Webster. Dear Enemy (e)

In progress
EW Hornung. The Amateur Cracksman (e)

Abandoned
Arthur W Ryder. Twenty-Two Goblins (e)

Non-fiction books
James Randi. James Randi: Psychic Investigator

In progress
Jason Morningstar. Fiasco (re-read)
Keri Smith. Wreck This Journal Everywhere

In hiatus
James W Loewen. Lies My Teacher Told Me (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Hazel Gaynor. Before Dorothy (e)

Back to work this week, but it's been fairly quiet.

I've been seeking distraction from an ongoing situation that I'm not going to talk about here, so I've listened to a lot of podcasts (nearly caught up on Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics) and got a lot of reading done (see separate post). Immersing myself in a computer game would be nice, but I haven't been able to make up my mind to try anything new, so I've mostly been occasionally trying XCOM 2 again and finding that I'm not in the right frame of mind to do well at it.

Movie reaction videos have been a useful distraction in the past, but I seem to have reached a saturation point with those: there's a limited number of movies that are popular to react to and that I know well enough to get something from watching people react to them, and I've watched enough reactions to them for the time being. I'm still watching some TV series reactions, including Sesska's Doctor Who reactions (which reached their final episode this week) and yet another run through Babylon 5.

I've been watching a bit of actual TV, too, mostly The Traitors, which has been quite dramatic this season. And Jet Lag, which worked its way northward this week and, despite my prediction last week, actually crossed the border into Scotland at the end.

Rehearsals continue, and have been a useful way to get away from things and enjoy myself for an hour every few days.

The weekly board game meet was also a nice break. We played another mission in Leviathan Wilds, and a few rounds of Coup: Rebellion G54.

Fiction books
Douglas Adams, John Lloyd. The Deeper Meaning of Liff
Travis Baldree. Bookshops & Bonedust (e)
Guy Boothby. A Bid for Fortune (e)
Susan Cooper. The Dark Is Rising (re-read)
Susan Cooper. Over Sea, Under Stone (re-read)
Eva Dolan. Long Way Home
Robert Harris. Lustrum (e)
Patrick O'Brian. HMS Surprise
Patrick O'Brian. Master and Commander (re-read)
Patrick O'Brian. Post Captain
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. Around the World in Eighty Days (e)

Abandoned
Max Allan Collins. The Pearl Harbor Murders
M Ruth Myers. No Game for a Dame (e)

Picture books
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam and the Big Jump (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam and the Rocket Ride (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam at the Rocket Port (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam Is Caught (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam Is Lost (re-read)

Non-fiction books
Leonard Nimoy. I Am Not Spock
Eddy Webb. Watson Is Not an Idiot (e)

In progress
James W Loewen. Lies My Teacher Told Me (e)
Keri Smith. Wreck This Journal Everywhere

Abandoned
Niccolo Machiavelli, tr. George Bull. The Prince

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Lee Sullivan. Cry Fox (e)

Fiction books
Zen Cho. The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo (e)
Agatha Christie. N or M? (re-read)
Graham Greene. Brighton Rock
Robert Harris. Imperium
Joan Lindsay. Picnic at Hanging Rock
Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle. The Mote in God's Eye
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 3
Gene Luen Yang, Gurihiru. Superman Smashes the Klan (e)

In progress
Douglas Adams, John Lloyd. The Deeper Meaning of Liff
Robert Harris. Lustrum (e)
Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. Around the World in Eighty Days (e)

Non-fiction books
Kelly Bishop. The Third Gilmore Girl (e)
Ben Macintyre. Operation Mincemeat (e)
Ewen Montagu. The Man Who Never Was (e)

Abandoned
Eric Thompson. Tales of True Adventure volume 1

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Robert Harris. Dictator

Fiction books
Rachael Allen. Harley Quinn: Redemption (e)
Anna Dean. A Moment of Silence (e)
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit (e)

In progress
Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. Around the World in Eighty Days (e)

Abandoned
Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe's Sword

Non-fiction books
(none)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 3

Fiction books
Steven Carroll. Death of a Foreign Gentleman
Uri Orlev, tr. Hillel Halkin. The Island on Bird Street
Mordecai Richler. Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang
Tom Scioli. Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre (e)
Arthur Upfield. The New Shoe (e)
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 1
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 2
Jules Verne, tr. FP Walter. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (e)

In progress
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit (e)

In hiatus
Cory Doctorow. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (e)
William Morris. The Well at the World's End (e)
Julian Rathbone. The Last English King
Helen Simonson. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (e)

Picture books
Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist! (e)
Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. That's Not a Hippopotamus! (e)
Eve Sutton, Lynley Dodd. My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes (e) (re-read)

Non-fiction books
Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (e)
Richard Fidler. Ghost Empire

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. Around the World in Eighty Days (e)

. At board game club this week, the main game we played was Night of the Ninja, a hidden-roles/social-deduction game where each player is a member of a ninja clan trying to take out the leaders of the opposing clan while protecting the leaders of their own clan - with the added wrinkle that because ninjas are so sneaky, nobody knows at the start who else is in the same clan or who the leaders are. ( Read more... )

. Monument Valley III had its Steam release in the past week, and I've enjoyed the first two games enough to buy it straight away, instead of waiting for a sale to roll around. ( Read more... )

. Another reaction channel I've been watching lately is Marie-Clare's World, which I started following when she was working her way through Doctor Who. Now she's watching Babylon 5, and has just reached the end of the first season. ( Read more... )

. I've been having trouble with my printer for months - something was up with the release mechanism for the black ink, so that if I printed a document in black-and-white it came out illegibly faint, but anything with colours still came out at full strength. ( Read more... )

. I've been trying out a new tea blend this week, having picked up a packet on a whim while I was grocery shopping. It's labelled as "orange and cinnamon", with the small print mentioning that the base component is rooibos (as opposed to it being an entirely non-tea herbal blend like the peppermint or the lemon-and-ginger). It's quite nice, and a warm and comforting thing that suits the cold and uncomfortable weather we've been having lately.

. There was rain for a lot of the week, which led to me not getting as much outdoor exercise as I'd have preferred and also to ongoing trouble finding a good day to do the laundry. ( But I got a good walk on Saturday ) During the afternoon I also finished the laundry, did the washing up, and dealt with some paperwork that had been hanging over me all week (and printed it out successfully). After all that, for one reason or another, I felt much brighter and more optimistic than I had for days.

Fiction books
Peter O'Donnell. Modesty Blaise (re-read)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, tr. Michael Guybon. The First Circle

In progress
Tanith Lee. The Silver Metal Lover
Helen Simonson. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (e)

Abandoned
Gene Brewer. K-PAX
Randall Garrett. Takeoff Too

Picture books
Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji (e)

Non-fiction books
Isaac Asimov. A Choice of Catastrophes
Kyle Baker. How to Draw Stupid

In progress
Yuval Noah Harari. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Ursula K Le Guin. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (e)

Fiction books
Andrei Baltakmens. A Hangman for Ghosts (e)
Eugene Byrne. Things Unborn
Diana Wynne Jones. House of Many Ways (re-read)
Diana Wynne Jones. Howl's Moving Castle (re-read)

In progress
Helen Simonson. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (e)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, tr. Michael Guybon. The First Circle

Abandoned
CL Moore. Jirel of Joiry (e)

Non-fiction books
Xavier Duff. Noose: True Stories of Australians Who Died at the Gallows

In progress
Isaac Asimov. A Choice of Catastrophes

Abandoned
Raymond Lamont-Brown. John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Ursula K Le Guin. Always Coming Home (e)

Fiction books
Clifford D Simak. The Visitors

In progress
Sharon Lee. Sea Wrack and Changewind (e)
Tim Powers. Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (e)

Abandoned
Sebastian Faulks. Devil May Care
Patrick Süskind. Perfume

Non-fiction books in progress
Colin Duriez. The Tolkien and Middle-Earth Handbook

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Jane Yolen. Sister Light, Sister Dark (e)

Fiction books
Barbara Ninde Byfield. The Man Who Made Gold (re-read)
Philip Reeve. Here Lies Arthur
Arthur Upfield. The Bachelors of Broken Hill (e)
Connie Willis. Inside Job (e)

In progress
Tim Powers. Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
Colin Duriez. The Tolkien and Middle-Earth Handbook

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Sebastian Faulks. Devil May Care

Fiction books
(anthology). The Witch Who Came in From the Cold: Season One (e)
Ben Aaronovitch. The Masquerades of Spring (e)
Pamela Freeman. Victor's Quest
Tamora Pierce. Cold Fire (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. The Fire in the Forging (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. The Healing in the Vine (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. The Magic in the Weaving (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. Magic Steps (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. The Power in the Storm (e) (re-read)
Tamora Pierce. Shatterglass (e)
Tamora Pierce. Street Magic (e) (re-read)
Rafael Sabatini. The Sword of Islam
Shelby Van Pelt. Remarkably Bright Creatures (e)
Evangeline Walton. The Island of the Mighty

In progress
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Valley of Fear (e) (re-read)

Abandoned
(anthology). Tremontaine: Season One (e)

Picture books
Lee Fox, Mitch Vane. Jasper McFlea Will Not Eat His Tea
Julia Patton. The Very Very Very Long Dog
Eve Titus, Paul Galdone. Anatole

Non-fiction books
Marc Abrahams. This Is Improbable
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)
Patrick Radden Keefe. Say Nothing (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
Rosaleen Love. Reefscape

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Herland

Fiction books
Rachael Allen. Harley Quinn: Ravenous (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World (re-read)
Colin Forbes. The Leader and the Damned
Jack London. The Scarlet Plague
Dan Moren. The Caledonian Gambit (e)
Evangeline Walton. The Children of Llyr
Evangeline Walton. Prince of Annwn
Evangeline Walton. The Song of Rhiannon

In progress
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Valley of Fear (e) (re-read)
Evangeline Walton. The Island of the Mighty

Non-fiction books in progress
Marc Abrahams. This Is Improbable
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
(anthology). Tremontaine: Season One (e)

Fiction books
Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener. Tesladyne Industries Field Guide (re-read)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (e) (re-read)
Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell. Fortunately, the Milk (re-read)
David Langford. He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (e)
Claire North. House of Odysseus
Claire North. Ithaca
Claire North. The Last Song of Penelope
Arthur Upfield. The Mountains Have a Secret (e)
Arthur Upfield. The Widows of Broome (e)
Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle. Down with Skool!
Timothy Zahn. Cobra

In progress
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World (re-read)

Non-fiction books in progress
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Marc Abrahams. This Is Improbable

Fiction books
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars (re-read)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Ribbon Dance (e)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Trader's Leap (e) (re-read)
Yoon Ha Lee. Hexarchate Stories (e)
Arthur Upfield. An Author Bites the Dust

In progress
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (e) (re-read)
David Langford. He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Joanna Russ. The Female Man (e)

Fiction books
Edward Bellamy. Looking Backward: 2000-1887
Yoon Ha Lee. Revenant Gun (e)
Dave Luckett. A Dark Journey (re-read)
Dave Luckett. A Dark Victory
Dave Luckett. A Dark Winter (re-read)
Jules Verne, tr. Frederick Amadeus Malleson. A Journey to the Center of the Earth
HG Wells. The War of the Worlds (re-read)

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (e) (re-read)
David Langford. He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (e)
Yoon Ha Lee. Hexarchate Stories (e)

Non-fiction books
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Joanna Russ. The Female Man (e)

Fiction books
Lee Child. Killing Floor
Timothy Zahn. Spinneret

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)

Abandoned
(anthology) The Workers' Paradise

Non-fiction books
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Ribbon Dance (e)

Fiction books
(anthology). Mists and Magic
Ben Aaronovitch. Remembrance of the Daleks (re-read)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sign of the Four (e) (re-read)
Yoon Ha Lee. Ninefox Gambit (e)
Yoon Ha Lee. Raven Stratagem (e)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)

Picture books
Chris Ferrie. General Relativity for Babies (e)

Non-fiction books
Thom Hartmann. Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class (e)

In progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
(anthology) The Workers' Paradise

Fiction books
Agatha Christie. Peril at End House
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (e) (re-read)
Barbara Hambly. Scandal in Babylon (e)
Katherine Locke. The Girl with the Red Balloon (e)
Mike Mignola. The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects

In progress
(anthology). Mists and Magic
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sign of the Four (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Thom Hartmann. Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class (e)

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