My 2017 Reading Log
A very bad year for reading over the last year. I suspect that the Playstation 4 got in the way again. No great shame in that. Games can be excellent story telling mechanisms. Just 9 books read in total.
Finished the Red Rising trilogy this year. I don’t think the saga finished as well as it started but still well worth your time.
I do wish that the science fiction and fantasy genre wasn’t so driven by trilogies. Personally I find they put me off as much as attract. Reading the first in a trilogy seems like quite a big investment when you know there are a couple of hefty tomes to come. I understand why authors and publishers are so invested in the idea of trilogies, I just wish I didn’t have to effectively read the best part of 1000 or more pages to get the full story.
January
Brown, Pierce: Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
Chace, Calum: Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence (non-fiction)
February
Collins, Michael: Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut’s Journey (non-fiction)
March
April
May
Dexter, Colin: Last Bus to Woodstock (Inspector Morse, #1)
Liu, Cixin: The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
June
July
Dexter, Colin: Morse’s Greatest Mystery and Other Stories
August
Cox, Richard Hubert Francis: Operation Sea Lion (non-fiction)
September
October
Liu, Cixin: Death’s End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3)
November
December
Baxter, Stephen: Manifold: Time (Manifold, #1)
