Test 1, 2, 3.

Edge of Dark by Brenda Cooper
Spear of Light by Brenda Cooper
Building Harlequin's Moon by Brenda Cooper & Larry Niven [re-read]

Nimona by ND Stevenson
Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin [re-read]
The Watchtower by Elizabeth A. Lynn
Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler [re-read; book starts in 2024: it's all sci-fi years from here on out, kids]
Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler [re-read; the first time I read this I kind of resented it for ruining the hopeful ending of the first book (as sequels are wont to do), but I felt better about it this time around (also Octavia Butler predicted MAGA in 1998!)]

Jumper by Steven Gould [re-read]

Started:
The Last Human by Zack Jordan


Due to tumblr discourse, I feel like I should specify that I'm not reading to better myself or impress other people. I'm reading to have fun. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

World War Z by Max Brooks [re-read]

Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik

Fledgling by Octavia Butler [re-read]

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke [re-read; also saw the movie for the first time]

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

The Telling by Ursula K. LeGuin

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut [re-read]

Frostwing by Richard A. Knaak [re-read; did not actually contain the scene I thought I vividly remembered from it and was overall kind of meh]

Cell by Stephen King [re-read; curious to see the movie]

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson [re-read]

Started Robogenesis also by Daniel H. Wilson.

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer

Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
by Orson Scott Card [all re-read one last time before discarding because of the author being a terrible person]

Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny

Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Dead Voices by Abigail McDaniels

The Devourers by Indra Das

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Some parts of the ending were satisfying. Other parts less so.

But I'm glad I did it. I feel a satisfying sense of completion.

I started the [Re-]Read July 5th, 2017, so it's been the last two years of my life (give or take a week).

But really I started 20 years ago in high school: reading the first book for the first time. A classmate who saw me reading other books of that ilk recommended it to me and even lent me his copies of the first few volumes. I started acquiring my own copies after that and have been carting them around with me every time I move. Eventually, I stopped rereading them every time a new volume came out and decided to wait for the end. Many years and a literal Death of the Author occurred before I finally had the complete set and could start at the beginning again.

Now to read what I think is the slimmest book I own, Why The Whales Came.

The re-read portion is finished, and I'm starting in on the final four that I have never read.

New Spring (the prequel that I just finished) has been my favorite thus far. I think Jordan is a better author when he concentrates on fewer characters at a time. Having Lan and Moiraine be the only POV characters made the narrative go more smoothly.

7 books read, 8 more to go, and I have some Issues...

( Rape content warning for book 7 and other spoilers )

Also it looks like it took me a year to read 6 books, so another year+ before I finish.

(Slowly.)

Five months in and I'm just starting book 3. They sure are hefty little paperbacks.

[Note to self: According to publishing order, New Spring comes after Crossroads of Twilight.]

Matter by Iain M. Banks

The Giver by Lois Lowry
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Messenger by Lois Lowry
Son by Lois Lowry

Crispin: The Cross of Lead by Avi

The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov

Impact by Douglas Preston

Valor Anthology by Various

John Dies At the End by David Wong
This Book is Full of Spiders by David Wong

An Evening At Joe's by The Cast and Crew of Highlander: the Series

Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloane

Cujo by Stephen King

City on the Edge of Forever by Harlan Ellison [Look, I have no doubt that a lot of people involved in the production of Star Trek (including Mr. Ellison) were ego-driven jerks whose tampering changed the episode from what was originally intended, but I still like the aired version better, whooops.]

Singer from the Sea by Sheri S. Tepper

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle [Wow, only one reread this year.]

Dancing Girls and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood

And I'm partway through William Sleator's Singularity.

The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Imajica by Clive Barker [trigger warnings: rape; dubious consent; more rape; even dubiouser consent]

Lionboy by Zizou Corder
Lionboy: The Chase by Zizou Corder
Lionboy: The Truth by Zizou Corder

One Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith [re-read]

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

The Princess Bride by William Goldman [re-read]

Acceptable Risk by Robin Cook [I don't know that it's triggering as such, but the author's "anti-depressants are evil" attitude actively pissed me off. Like, if it were just the characters' opinions, or they were choosing for themselves not to take medication, it would be one thing, but the narrative actively backs them up by having anti-depressants that turn you into an atavistic murderer, and uses that to basically be like "and therefore all anti-depressants are bad and you should bootstrap yourself into mental health with therapy and no drugs".]

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

The Dark Half by Stephen King

The Circus of the Earth and the Air by Brooke Stevens

Right now I'm in the midst of Matter by Iain M. Banks

there were 6 episodes I have never seen before.

Including the last one The Trade-Ins, which had a book metaphor in the intro because Rod Serling just gets me, okay?

"Mr. and Mrs. John Holt, aging people who slowly and with trembling fingers turn the last pages of a book of life and hope against logic and the preordained that some magic printing press will add to this book another limited edition."

To be continued tomorrow/next year.

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan [re-read]
The Fall by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan
The Night Eternal by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

World War Z by Max Brooks [re-read]

The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks [re-read]
The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks [re-read]
The Golden City by John Twelve Hawks

The Truth Machine by James L. Halperin [re-read]
The First Immortal by James L. Halperin [re-read]

Sabriel by Garth Nix [re-read]

Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand by Samuel R. Delany

Rainbow's End by Vernor Vinge

The Ear, The Eye and The Arm by Nancy Farmer

Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams [re-read]
(For some reason I though I hadn't read it, but then realized I had and kept going anyway.)
And then started the new year off with The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams [re-read].

Right. So. I wanna sell some of the many books I've made (because let's face it, even if I wrote all journals, all the timez, that shit would not be getting filled up-- also while I'm not in dire straits or anything, I am low on income at the moment).

So I set up a store on WePay because unlike etsy, they do not have a listing fee, which means that if/when my books do not sell, I will not have wasted 20 cents each trying to sell them. Of course the disadvantage is that WePay is a smaller site, but while etsy has the built-in audience of people wanting crafty things, that still doesn't necessarily mean they want my crafty things, or that they can find my crafty things amidst the tons of other crafty things, and did I mention that I only have to give WePay a cut if I actually sell something?

So that's the "logic" behind that, but clearly I have no idea what I'm doing, so if anyone would like to take pity on me and peruse the store and critique the hell out of it, that would be super helpful. Also super helpful: advice on how to advertise without you know, actually paying for advertising?

Yeah, I'm overly pleased with my "All books are bigger on the inside" thing. Deal with it.