In the remaining hours of 2021, I finished book 52. Like always, I tend
to start the year off strong as I set a personal –yet stupid, in some way- goal
to get a bunch of books read by the end of June. I think the reason I do so
well during this period is I know as the days lengthen (though you really don’t
notice that until mid to late February), I can use more natural light to read
by. I find it difficult at times to read under artificial light –I get tired
quicker and my eyes seem to cross more. As the days get longer and the weather
produces less chilly weather, I find reading outside on the weekends to be best
for me.
On the flipside, by the time the days shorten, the new TV season begins
(even if I don’t watch much of them), I grow bored with reading. I slow to a
snail’s pace, despite the hundreds of unread books that sit next to me. Of
course mood and daily issues like work tend to drag me down as well –I mean
work is exhausting and I hate it and wish to any magical beings in the universe
to get me a job I’ll actually look forward to going to (or give me the winning
lottery numbers).
But here we are, on the cusp of 2022. This will be a very difficult one, filled with COVID (still), a battle in DC over the Insurrection on January 6th, a mid-term election that could tip the States into Civil War.
This may be the year we can subtitle A Sacrifice of Angels.
01. The Constant Rabbit By Jasper Fforde
02. Double Feature By Donald E. Westlake
03. Captain Moxley and the Embers of the Empire By Dan Hanks
04. Ronan Doyle and Swamp of Certain Death By Thomas Lennon
05. Put a Lid on It By Donald E. Westlake
06. The Sentence is Death By Anthony Horowitz
07. Harrison Squared By Daryl Gregory
08. A Likely Story By Donald E. Westlake
09. We Are Completely Fine By Daryl Gregory
10. A Gentleman in Moscow By Amor Towles
11. Later By Stephen King
12. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Smith
13. Memorial By Bryan Washington
14. The Collapsing Empire By John Scalzi
15. The Consuming Fire By John Scalzi
16. The Last Emperox By John Scalzi
17. Quicksand By Steve Toltz
18. Alternate Routes By Tim Powers
19. Forced Perspectives By Tim Powers
20. Doctor Who: Paradox Lost By George Mann
21. Doctor Who: Touched by an Angel By Jonathan Morris
22. Doctor Who: Hunter’s Moon By Paul Finch
23. In the Blood By Margaret Kirk
24. The Album of Dr. Moreau By Daryl Gregory
25. Deadly Edge by Richard Stark
26. Slayground by Richard Stark
27. Nature Girl By Carl Hiaasen
28. The 7 ½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle By Stuart Turton
29. Declare by Tim Powers
30. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo By Taylor Jenkins-Reid
31. Who Stole Sassi Manoon? By Donald E. Westlake
32. Black Buck By Mateo Askaripour
33. Doctor Who: Festival of Death By Jonathan Morris
34. The House on the Cerulean Sea By TJ Klune
35. Billy Summers By Stephen King
36. Dark Waters By Katherine Arden
37. The Thursday Murder Club By Richard Osman
38. Plunder Squad By Richard Stark
39. Dead Skip By Joe Gores
40. Shakespeare for Squirrels By Christopher Moore
41. The Colorado Kid By Stephen King
42. Raising Stony Mayhall By Daryl Gregory
43. Julia By Peter Straub
44. Doctor Who: The Secret in Vault 13 By David Solomons
45. Under the Whispering Door By TJ Klune
46. Groucho Marx, King of the Jungle By Ron Goulart
47. The Goblin Emperor By Katherine Addison
48. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
49. Swashbucklers by Dan Hanks
50. The Damsel By Richard Stark
51. The Long Call By Ann Cleeves
52. Calling Dr. Patchwork By Ron Goulart
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