Sunday, October 01, 2017

Q-3 recount, or,

A less productive quarter; time to up my game.

Boxes completed this quarter:

Religion: The lost book of the Grail [not a reread, just a move: I originally had this book as "Based on mythology," but I think it's a better fit for this category.  Plus then I can count another book under that heading.]
Based on mythology: The Sword of Summer
Recommended by an author you love: Farmer in they sky  [Andy Weir created a list for a Goodreads blog post and included this, along with other space colonization titles.  The fan-girl moment was glorious.]
From a nonhuman perspective: Flashmob [I was debating whether to include this, but one of the characters says "you've never felt like one of us because, deep down, where it counts, you're nothing close to human" (p.144).  So I'm counting it.]
Collection of comics: Love and capes, vol. 2  [I was troubled that I'd need to pick a compilation of comic strips a la Garfield or something, but if I rely on Wikipedia's definition that it's a sequence of panels and can be a comic book, comic strip, or graphic novel (among others), this fits.  If you prefer, I can call volumes 2-4 collectively a "collection of comics."]
Audiobook: Stiff upper lip, Jeeves [I had NPR laughter therapy in this spot, but that's not really an audiobook-- it's an audio file, but it's radio interviews, not an adaptation of a print publication, so I booted it.  This audio was listened to back in March.]
Science fiction book written by a man: Artemis
Auto/biography of a woman, written by a woman: Trials of the earth
Reread your favorite book from your childhood: The island stallion

Non-counters:
The end of the world running club
Noble intentions
Noble destiny
Deja who
In Farleigh Field
Uncommon type
The hollow men
Rocket science for babies
General relativity for babies
Newtonian physics for babies
The hammer of Thor
The Paris spy
Bitchplanet, vol. 2
Turtle Island
Surviving the Angel of Death
Children of time
Love and capes, vol. 3
Love and capes, vol. 4
The library at the edge of the world
Sheet pan suppers
Promise not to tell
Caesar's last breath

Only 7 new boxes checked (and a few shuffled around): 47 complete, 23 to go, or 67% done.  I only progressed 10% during the third quarter!  I need some motivation, stat!

Still to read:
Non-Western history
An Indigenous culture
Japenese philosophy
Current events
Psychology
Your favorite hobby
Before you see the movie
That's mentioned in another book
From a genre/subgenre you've never heard of
Memoir by someone who identifies as LGBTQIA
Book by a modernist woman writer
Classic you have always wanted to read
Woman under 25
Author born in Australia/Oceania
Author born in South America
Author born in the Caribbean
Essays
Classic literature written by a woman
Classic literature written by a man
Book written over a century ago, then read a retelling of the book
Graphic novel that's a retelling of a classic book
Book that was adapted to film.  Watch the film, then compare and contrast it with the book
Auto/biography of a man
Bestseller from 2016.

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