Books read, 2018
I got fewer books read this year than I’d like. That’s partly because things got busy at times, but also because the final two Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books — Swords & Ice Magic and The Knight and Knave of Swords — are real slogs. Like Heinlein, toward the end of his life, Leiber was probably over-sharing about his sexual proclivities, making for dissatisfying adventure stories that are also impressively anti-erotic. I’m glad that I read them, but I’d never recommend the last two or three of those books to others.The book club with my son included The One and Only Ivan, which is set to be a Disney movie in the coming years, I believe, and was a really great book assigned at school. We also read Traveler: The Spiral Path, the illustrated version of the first Harry Potter novel, the House with a Clock in Its Walls, and Squirm all of which we enjoyed.
My goal for 2019 is 19 books, which makes it easy to remember.
- Jan. 22: The Big Sleep
- Feb. 16: Swords and Ice Magic
- March 15: The One and Only Ivan
- April 9: The Hobbit
- April 10: Traveler: The Spiral Path
- May 18: Mort
- June 24: The Adventure Time Encyclopedia
- June 24: Empire of Blue Water
- July 23: A Closed and Common Orbit
- Aug. 15: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (illustrated edition)
- Sept. 1: Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen
- Sept. 22: The House with a Clock in its Walls
- Sept. 30: It Devours!
- Nov. 27: Squirm
- Dec. 27: Record of a Spaceborn Few
- Dec. 28: World of Warcraft: Chronicle 3
- Dec. 31: The Knight and Knave of Swords
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