Category Archives: Currently reading

I fell just shy of 25,000 print pages (24,357p) of books and chapbooks, including page count of audio books equivalent, completed in 2018. Average page-length is 154 pages. Doing my numbers I realized a couple good ones weren’t in my top list. Forgot them in the spreadsheet. The post below fixes that. 160 titles, 31 […]

Caveat: I have over a dozen still underway. More will likely be added by year’s end but so far the shiny wows were these in no particular order: [edited to add last few I forgot to add to my spreadsheet or finished since.Jan 3, 2019] Poetry The Deep End of the Sky by Chad Lee Robinson […]

Poetry Chapbooks Unseen Garden by Roxanna Bennett (k | f | b, 2018): snow day by rob mclennan (above/ground, 2018): Espesantes by Stuart Ross (above/ground, 2018): Concealed Weapons/Animal Survivors by N Hanna (above/ground, 2018): For the Birds. For the Humans by Conyer Clayton (Battleaxe, 2018): Pipe Rose by Manahil Nadulkwala (Battleaxe, 2018): Poetry books: I […]

Instead of a full list of 95books this year, at just past the halfway mark, those that I was swept up into most, in no particular order. Novels The Ruby Dice by Catherine Asaro (Baen, 2008): Part of her series set in a universe of 3 intergalactic empires, this where the Ruby Empire’s Kelric and […]

All in, all done at 115 books and chapbooks. (19 were chapbooks.) I read 17,000 pages, with an average book length of 145 pages. 1/4 of the books finished were 5/5. 4% I completed even tho they were a slog all the way. (Some things don’t get better with time and effort.) My 2016 goal […]