Finished the (unabridged) The Stand. Took me 8 days (I was planning on 6).
Time to follow that up with some shorter books I think.
Slacker!
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Started/finished Dream Country (3rd Sandman collection) yesterday.
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Iām at 159 books on the year. 200 aināt gonna to be possible, but Iām shooting for 180 I think.
Hermeneutical Spiral
I decided that rather than paying $10K+ to get a Masterās degree in religion online, I could just read the texts and skip the tests.
According to GoodReads, Iām at 104. I think 200 would be unachievable for me, too, given the books I read.
Iāve been going slowly through Beneath a Scarlet Sky on audiobook. Iām not impressed yet. But the reason I posted is that thereās a character called Uncle Albert. Every time Uncle Albert is mentioned, my mind immediately goes to āWeāre so sorry, Uncle Albert ā¦ā
Tom Seaver - A Terrific Life - Bill Madden
And 169 as of last night. Finished Faust Part One. Going to take a break before Part Two.
Next up: read another Borges collection (The Maker) and then The Vanishing Half.
I got an email from Goodreads saying I read 21 books this year. Not bad considering I go in streaks.
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Stuck in the middle, uninteresting sections of the Wheel of Time series.
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Still slogging through The Whale, which has not once featured THE whale.
Also, just started āClan of the Cave Bear,ā as I needed something to read on a road trip, didnāt want to bring an 80-year-old book with me (some people think their copy is worth $39!!), and itās on our Kindle for an unknown reason.
I finished East of Eden 
I finished Beneath a Scarlet Sky by Mark Sullivan. Itās a ābased on a trueā story of an Italian teen in WW2, who begins to work for the resistence, then through some luck ends up being the driver for a German general. The ābased onā is a bit annoying, as youāre not certain what liberties have been taken and the writing itself wasnāt great. But you can see why the author did that - there just werenāt enough known facts concerning the general and, especially, what happened to him after the war.
The library is having a winter (cause covid, I guess) reading program with prizes based on how much you read, so Iām gonna get back to shorter mysteries, I suppose. I grabbed The Tale of Hill Top Farm and a couple more Colin Cotterill mysteries set in Laos.
I finished The Tale Of Hill Top Farm by Susan Wittig Albert. Itās the first of a bunch of mysteries where Beatrix Potter does the solving.
I also read Love Songs From A Shallow Grave, another mystery set in post-war Laos. It was pretty typical of the Dr Siri Paiboun mysteries until he takes what he thinks is going to be a boondoggle trip to Khmer Rouge Cambodia before news had really gotten out about the state of things there. So it gets a lot darker, obviously.
Finished āClan of The Cave Bear.ā
It was worth what I paid for it, by which I mean it was somehow on the family Kindle.
Not pleased to find out there are five more novels in the series, none of which seem to touch upon this Clan. All of which are even longer than this one. So, probably will not keep reading the series.
I enjoyed it, but wondered how good the research was.
I am saving it for my archeologist daughter, just to get her opinion
no desire to continue the story.
Finished Dan Jonesās War of the Roses, which definitely shows the York/Lancaster āsplitā was a lot more complicated than Shakespeare made it out to be (of course, the Tudors had a vested interest in having a specific narrative be accepted. And while I think Richard III got a raw deal in the play, all the people involved were violent assholes, so I donāt worry about it too much.)
So then I decided to re-read his prior book, the Plantagenets, which is definitely colorful. Lots of interesting (and, again, violent) people.
oh and reading Stephen Fryās Mythos, which is a modern re-telling of Greek myths/legends, pulling from the standard literary sources. He does insert modern snark, but not too much, and tends to keep all the etymological meanderings to the footnotes. Iām up to Psyche & Eros right now.
I liked how he retold the Pandora story.
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Just finished Rhythm of War (loved it, as expected). I spent a lot of time re-reading a lot of Sanderson leading up to the RoW publication, so finally taking a break and moving to some other stuff on my list.
Currently reading The Princess Bride, which is not disappointing! Itās also a quick read, probably because I know the story so well.