Roundup for 2021 coming shortly.
Current
Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
Calvin, by F. Bruce Gordon
A Radical Romance, by Alison Light
Books finished last week
The 48 Laws Of Power, by Robert Greene (Did not finish)
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Les Mondes d’Aldébaran: L’Encyclopédie Illustrée, by Christophe Quillien
Barbarella vol 1, by Jean-Claude Forest, tr Kelly Sue DeConnick
Northern Ireland a Generation after Good Friday, by Colin Coulter, Niall Gilmartin, Katy Hayward and Peter Shirlow
Jani and the Greater Game, by Eric Brown
Barbarella vol 2: The Wrath of the Minute-Eater, by Jean-Claude Forest, tr Kelly Sue DeConnick
Once & Future Vol. 1: The King is Undead, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvilain
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World, by Claire Tomalin
Once & Future Vol. 2: Old English, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvilain
December Books
Non-fiction 9 (2021 total 53)
The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence, 1918-1923, by Charles Townshend
The Mind Robber, by Andrew Hickey
An Introduction to the Gospel of John, by Raymond E. Brown
Black Orchid, by Ian Millsted
The Idiot Brain: A Neuroscientist Explains What Your Head is Really Up To, by Dean Burnett
A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff, by Neil Gaiman (more non-fiction than sf content)
The 48 Laws Of Power, by Robert Greene (Did not finish)
Northern Ireland a Generation after Good Friday, by Colin Coulter, Niall Gilmartin, Katy Hayward and Peter Shirlow
The Young H.G. Wells: Changing the World, by Claire Tomalin
Non-genre 3 (2021 total 30)
Staring At The Sun, by Julian Barnes
Ann Veronica, by H. G. Wells
Lying Under the Apple Tree, by Alice Munro
SF 9 (2021 total 131)
A Desolation Called Peace, by Arkady Martine
The Secret, by Eva Hoffman
"Blood Music", by Greg Bear
Black Oxen, by Elizabeth Knox
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Startide Rising, by David Brin
An Excess Male, by Maggie Shen King
The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
Jani and the Greater Game, by Eric Brown
Doctor Who 7 (2021 total 30, 40 inc non-fiction and comics)
Doctor Who Annual 2022, by Paul Lang
This Town Will Never Let Us Go, by Lawrence Miles
The Life of Evans, by John Peel
Night of the Intelligence, by Andy Frankham-Allan
The Wonderful Doctor of Oz, by Jacqueline Rayner
Doctor Who – The Mind Robber, by Peter Ling
Doctor Who – Black Orchid, by Terence Dudley
Comics 6 (2021 total 48)
Seven Deadly Sins, by Roz Kaveney, Graham Higgins, Tym Manley, Hunt Emerson, Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, Dave Gibbons, Lew Stringer, Mark Rodgers, Steve Gibson, Davy Francis, Jeremy Banks, Alan Moore and Mike Matthews
Les Mondes d’Aldébaran: L’Encyclopédie Illustrée, by Christophe Quillien
Barbarella vol 1, by Jean-Claude Forest, tr Kelly Sue DeConnick
Barbarella vol 2: The Wrath of the Minute-Eater, by Jean-Claude Forest, tr Kelly Sue DeConnick
Once & Future Vol. 1: The King is Undead, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvilain
Once & Future Vol. 2: Old English, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvilain
9,300 pages (2021 total 77,200)
13/34 (2021 total 124/296) by non-male writers (Hayward, Tomalin, Munro, Martine, Hoffman, Knox, King, Rayner, Kaveney, DeConnick x2, Bonvilain x2)
1/34 (2021 total 42/296) by PoC (King)
7/34 rereads (2021 total 38/296) – "Blood Music", The Lord of the Rings, Startide Rising, The Martian Chronicles, Doctor Who – The Mind Robber, Doctor Who – Black Orchid, Once & Future Vol. 1: The King is Undead
Coming soon (perhaps)
Peter Davison's Book of Alien Planets
El Libro del Mar / The Book of the Sea, by Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bolivia (if I can find it)
Twice a Stranger: How Mass Expulsion Forged Modern Greece and Turkey, by Bruce Clark
Wandering Scholars, by Helen Waddell
“Bloodchild”, by Octavia E. Butler
Why I Write, by George Orwell
Breasts and Eggs, by Mieko Kawakami
Indigo, by Clemens J. Setz
High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby
Scherven, by Erik De Graaf
The War in the Air, by H. G. Wells
The Space Machine, by Christopher Priest
Air, by Geoff Ryman
Hergé, Son of Tintin, by Benoît Peeters
Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story of Pink Floyd, by Mark Blake
Tower, by Nigel Jones
Flicker, by Theodore Roszak
The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake
After Atlas, by Emma Newman
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