Blogging has been a bit light around here of late – my priority is finishing the books submitted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and I'm now at the stage where, even if I decide in the first hundred pages of a particular novel that I'm not going to push it for the shortlist (let alone the top spot), I usually still want to know how the story ends – it's rare for a book to leave me so unmoved (or annoyed) that I can comfortably forego the resolution. I suspect this is going to lead to some late (or, rather, even later) reading nights as our internal deadlines approach.

Anyway, the tally of books that I am reading, have read, intend to read, and have acquired in the last week is reported below. (Some of the last category was acquired as a result of this event, especially the part of the discussion that starts around 58:48.)

Current
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy (a chapter a day)
Watership Down, by Richard Adams (a chapter a week)
The Blood of Azrael, by Scott Gray, Michael Collins, Adrian Salmon and David A. Roach
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Last books finished
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Oh No It Isn't!, by Paul Cornell
Een geschiedenis van België voor intelligente kinderen (en hun ouders), by Benno Barnard and Geert van Istendael
Getting the Buggers to Behave, by Sue Cowley
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Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults, by Ambrose Bierce

Last week's audios
Welcome to Night Vale Eps 52-57, also 2 bonus episodes
An Ordinary Life, by Matt Fitton

Next books
Het Achterhuis, by Anne Frank
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage, by Alice Munro

Books acquired in last week
The Longest Afternoon: The 400 Men Who Decided The Battle Of Waterloo, by Brendan Simms
Sharpe's Waterloo, by Bernard Cornwell
The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal
Discipline or Corruption, by Constantin Stanislavsky, George Martin, Anna Darl, Karen Cooper, Susan Harris and Jennifer Harris
Rauf Denktaş: A Private Portrait, by Yvonne Çerkez