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Sandy wrote: "Nice to see that you're jumping in "feet first" again this year, CaptKirk!"Whenever I dive in head first I get clunked (chunkster) in the head. LOL
Finished Charmed Inherit the Witch. Another fantastic book in the series. In the dozen or so in the series I've read I haven't found a dud yet.Tomorrow I will start in on Charmed "A Tale of Two Pipers
2015 Challenge = 1/20
Finished Charmed A Tale of Two Pipers One of the best ones so far. Two out of 20 books down for this year so far.2015 Challenge = 2/20
Finished Charmed Mystic Knoll2015 Challenge = 5/20
About to start The Productions of Time by John Brunner
Been a long time since an update. After several weeks of being in reading limbo finally finished The Productions of Time.Today Wednesday 03 Jun 2015 I am starting in on Dan Brown's Inferno I have read the other Robert Langdon stories and liked them.
Been a while since I updated. I am at 8/20 books two book behind according to the challenge widget. I Just finished Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession. A very nice history of Baseball Card Collecting and card manufacturing history.Today 08 July I am starting in on another in the Charmed series #30 The Queen's Curse
Finished Charmed #30 The Queen's Curse about to start Charmed #31 Picture Perfect9/20 only 1 book behind right now. Might be able to catch up before July ends.
Finished Charmed #31 Picture Perfect10/20 Now I am ON TRACK!
Going to start Charmed #39 High Spirits today.
Just finished reading SWAT No. 1 - Crossfire 14/20 read and right now 1 book aheadReady to start reading Seasons of the Witch, Vol. 1
Got a book from an online order that will be a secondary read. I'll take time to read it mostly because of the scientific nature of it (I'm not scientific). It is Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction by Charles L. Adler. It is a "How things work" Science/Physics type book that explores elements of Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories and explains the science and physics behind them and whether or not they could really work or exist. On a side note the Author was one of My High School friends I hung around with and then lost contact with during college. My main group of friends in high school were the "eggheads" like Mr. Adler even though my intelligence is closer to average and my "Maths and Science" knowledge is more like that of Shaggy from the Scooby Doo cartoons. They were the ones that graduated in the top part of our class while I was in the exact middle of the class "Mr. Average".
I've started reading the book and am on page 12 (finished reading Chapter 1 which is a "how to read and understand this book" sort of intro/prologue)
I'm just happy you seem to have liked a book by Robert Sheckley! Immortality, Inc. I don't know anyone I could mention him to who'd have heard of him. I'll have to look at that one-- I liked the couple I've read by him.
Finished Reading The Black Hole20/20 Challenge completed!
Getting ready to start reading Splinter of the Mind's Eye A Star Wars novel. If I recall correctly it was the first Non-Movie Star Wars Novel published.
Year end, beginning of 2016.Lets see completed challenge of 20 books by reading 21.
Still on book #22, which is NOW book #1 for 2016. Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction
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In general I still have plenty of the Charmed series to get through, and still have to get half of them. I have a few Man From UNCLE books left and again need to get half of those although that series is half as big as the Charmed series and the last few ones are hard to get particularly the last one which also appears to be pretty expensive as well.
Eventually I want to re-read The Lord of the Rings but probably not this coming year. That is a long "clunkster" read. Oh and the Fred Saberhagen Empire of The East series I read 30some years ago so I want to re-read that sometime. Another re-read I need to do is the Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy series. I still haven't read the very last one (the non-Douglas Adams one published after he had died)
I guess I'll update this thread like I did the 2014 one, or try to by listing what I have started/finished and some basic opinions on it. Sort of like a mini-review since it has been ages since I've written any proper reviews.