Goals - First Quarter 2010
I set a number of goals for myself this year. Write more, at least five days a week and at least 300 words per day. I have exceeded my goals here and need to adjust them up. Write an original RPG for MisCon. I have this nearly completed and hope to beta test it in a few weeks at the Sandbaggers Game Club. Blog regularly. I've fallen off there a bit lately. Reading, I set a goal for at least two hundred books this year. I'm nine short of the first quarter goal. I got off to a very slow start in January. For some reason I didn't seem to have the energy or attention span to read and I spent to much time playing mindless computer games. I haven't touched the games for around a month now and the reading has picked up.
Books read so far this year:
Fiction: (25)
Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
*Iron Kissed by Patty Briggs
The Book of the Unknown (short stories) by Jonathon Keats
Coyote Horizon by Allen Steele
The Vampire Archives (anthology) edited by Otto Penzler
The Winds of Dune by Brain Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
*Swords and Deviltry / Swords Against Death / Swords in the Mist / Swords Against Wizardy / The Swords of Lankhmar / Nights Black Agents (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales) by Fritz Leiber (rr)
The Silent Tower by Barbara Hambly
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
Traveling with the Dead by Barbara Hambly
Wild Thyme,Green Magic (short stories) by Jack Vance, edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan
By Blood We Live (anthology) edited by John Joseph Adams
The Ninth Circle by Alex Bell
Otherland - The City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (rr)
Midnight Grinding (short stories) by Ronald Kelly
*Wings of Wrath by C.S. Friedman
*Grants Pass (a post-apocalyptic anthology) edited by Jennifer Brozek and Amanda Pillar
*Dream Songs Volume I (short stories) by George R R Martin
*Dream Songs Volume II (short stories) by George R R Martin
Nonfiction: (16)
Robert E. Lee by Noah Andre Trudeau
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
Naming Infinity by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor
Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare 1190 BC ~ Present by Iain Dickie, Martin J. Dougherty, Phyllis J. Jestice, Christer Jorgensen, and Rob S. Rice
Red Cloud at Dawn by Michael D. Gordin
Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, Politics in the Ancient World by Diana Preston
Halfway to Heaven by Mark Obmascik
The Marne, 1914 by Holger H. Herwig
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
*A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (rr)
Incredible Victory by Walter Lord (rr)
The Night Lives On by Walter Lord
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs by Jon Franklin
In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent
The 10% Solution by Ken Rand
* I own the book
(rr) reread
My Favorites so far are:
The 10% Solution by Ken Rand (it's as good as advertised - excellent book on self-editing)
The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs by Jon Franklin
(I don't own a dog and am not even a dog lover, but this is a special book)
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly (How did I make it this long without reading Barbara Hambly?)
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (I haven't read this for many years. It's as good as I remember)
Books read so far this year:
Fiction: (25)
Genghis: Bones of the Hills by Conn Iggulden
*Iron Kissed by Patty Briggs
The Book of the Unknown (short stories) by Jonathon Keats
Coyote Horizon by Allen Steele
The Vampire Archives (anthology) edited by Otto Penzler
The Winds of Dune by Brain Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson
*Swords and Deviltry / Swords Against Death / Swords in the Mist / Swords Against Wizardy / The Swords of Lankhmar / Nights Black Agents (Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser tales) by Fritz Leiber (rr)
The Silent Tower by Barbara Hambly
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly
Traveling with the Dead by Barbara Hambly
Wild Thyme,Green Magic (short stories) by Jack Vance, edited by Terry Dowling and Jonathan Strahan
By Blood We Live (anthology) edited by John Joseph Adams
The Ninth Circle by Alex Bell
Otherland - The City of Golden Shadow by Tad Williams
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (rr)
Midnight Grinding (short stories) by Ronald Kelly
*Wings of Wrath by C.S. Friedman
*Grants Pass (a post-apocalyptic anthology) edited by Jennifer Brozek and Amanda Pillar
*Dream Songs Volume I (short stories) by George R R Martin
*Dream Songs Volume II (short stories) by George R R Martin
Nonfiction: (16)
Robert E. Lee by Noah Andre Trudeau
Newton and the Counterfeiter by Thomas Levenson
Naming Infinity by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor
Fighting Techniques of Naval Warfare 1190 BC ~ Present by Iain Dickie, Martin J. Dougherty, Phyllis J. Jestice, Christer Jorgensen, and Rob S. Rice
Red Cloud at Dawn by Michael D. Gordin
Cleopatra and Antony: Power, Love, Politics in the Ancient World by Diana Preston
Halfway to Heaven by Mark Obmascik
The Marne, 1914 by Holger H. Herwig
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
*A Night to Remember by Walter Lord (rr)
Incredible Victory by Walter Lord (rr)
The Night Lives On by Walter Lord
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker by James McManus
The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs by Jon Franklin
In the Land of Invented Languages by Arika Okrent
The 10% Solution by Ken Rand
* I own the book
(rr) reread
My Favorites so far are:
The 10% Solution by Ken Rand (it's as good as advertised - excellent book on self-editing)
The Wolf in the Parlor: The Eternal Connection Between Humans and Dogs by Jon Franklin
(I don't own a dog and am not even a dog lover, but this is a special book)
Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly (How did I make it this long without reading Barbara Hambly?)
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas (I haven't read this for many years. It's as good as I remember)