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Quarterly Reading Wrap-Up
Mar. 28th, 2020 11:29 amSince we are about a quarter of the way through the year I thought I would discuss my reading progress so far. You can see my Book Bingo Card here, as you can see no bingos at this point. According to my Goodreads I've read 10 books so far this year, and only 6 of them fit a bingo square. I was kind of hoping to be a little further along at this point, but I got sick at the beginning of March, it wasn't Covdi-19, I was sick before the first case of that was reported in my area, I'm better now, but ever since I've been in a bit of a reading slump. I only finished one book in March, and that was because I read it in little bit sized chunks over a couple of weeks. I don't know if it's just the news, or the self isolation, but all I've felt like reading lately is fluffy fanfiction.
Anyways, here some thoughts on the books I've read so far:
*Exiles by Howard Weinstein - Star Trek novel, you can find my thoughts here if you're interested
*Light Years by Kass Morgan - YA Sci-Fi, Light easy read, teen drama in space, not a bad premise, I only really loved one character out of the four main protagonists, Arran, he was a real cinnamon roll, and I think if I continue the series at all it will be because him
*City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker - Non-fiction History, really interesting look at a strange period of French history when poison and witchcraft were quite common, and the sometimes understandable, sometimes brutal crackdown by Paris' first Chief of Police. Someone on Goodreads was complaining that they really wished that they would stop writing so many books about these events, but it was the first time I had heard of them, so I found it very interesting
*X-Men: With Great Power by Victor Gischler - Marvel Comic, the X-Men and Spiderman track monsters in the sewers of New York, what's not to love about that
*Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey - Domestic Thriller, this one is sad, one of the main POVs is the murder victim, so you see her being gaslit and her slow mental decline, which results in her death. The other POV is the woman trying to unravel the mystery of her death. The initial premise had promise, but the ending was pretty predictable.
*Spartacus by T. L. Mancour - Star Trek novel, It's about the Enterprise encountering a race of Androids that look and act human. I read this first, then I saw the first episode of Picard, I thought it was funny that they were both about human-like androids, that being said that is where the similarities end. Pretty good read, heavy focus on Data, Picard, and some Riker.
Anyways, here some thoughts on the books I've read so far:
*Exiles by Howard Weinstein - Star Trek novel, you can find my thoughts here if you're interested
*Light Years by Kass Morgan - YA Sci-Fi, Light easy read, teen drama in space, not a bad premise, I only really loved one character out of the four main protagonists, Arran, he was a real cinnamon roll, and I think if I continue the series at all it will be because him
*City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker - Non-fiction History, really interesting look at a strange period of French history when poison and witchcraft were quite common, and the sometimes understandable, sometimes brutal crackdown by Paris' first Chief of Police. Someone on Goodreads was complaining that they really wished that they would stop writing so many books about these events, but it was the first time I had heard of them, so I found it very interesting
*X-Men: With Great Power by Victor Gischler - Marvel Comic, the X-Men and Spiderman track monsters in the sewers of New York, what's not to love about that
*Woman on the Edge by Samantha M. Bailey - Domestic Thriller, this one is sad, one of the main POVs is the murder victim, so you see her being gaslit and her slow mental decline, which results in her death. The other POV is the woman trying to unravel the mystery of her death. The initial premise had promise, but the ending was pretty predictable.
*Spartacus by T. L. Mancour - Star Trek novel, It's about the Enterprise encountering a race of Androids that look and act human. I read this first, then I saw the first episode of Picard, I thought it was funny that they were both about human-like androids, that being said that is where the similarities end. Pretty good read, heavy focus on Data, Picard, and some Riker.
