reading (catching up on 2025)

[eor]

Wow, this is going to be really hard. I haven't posted my books since February and I have no idea if I'll be able to figure them all out. If it's not obvious, I'm not going to do a write up on them.


4. Terry Pratchett "Jingo"
5. "Asimov's Science Fiction Jan/Feb 2025"
6. Terry Pratchett "The Last Continent"
7. "Asimov's Science Fiction Mar/Apr 2025"
8. John Steinbeck "The Moon is Down"
9. John Steinbeck "The Red Pony"
10. John Steinbeck "Of Mice and Men"
11. John Steinbeck "Cannery Row"
12. John Steinbeck "The Pearl"
13. Agatha Christie "Five Little Pigs"
14. Asimov's Science Fiction May/Jun 2025
15. Terry Pratchett "Carpe Jugulum"
16. John Maynard Keynes "The Economic Consequences of the Peace"
17. "The Long List Anthology Vol 7"
18. "The Long List Anthology Vol 8"
19. Zen Cho "The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water"
20. Agatha Christie: After the Funeral ?
21. "Asimov's Science Fiction Jul/Aug 2025"
22. Roger Zelazny: "The Road To Amber: Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny Vol 6"
23. The Long List Anthology Vol 9 (have I read this yet?)
24. Bill Bryson: "Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words"
25. "Asimov's Science Fiction Sep/Oct 2025"
26. Terry Pratchett "The Fifth Elephant"
27. "Diabolical Plots: The First Years"
28. Amy Bloom "In Love"


Might be able to finish one more by the end of the year, but it's long and I'm less than a quarter of the way through it, so maybe not.

Comments

[laurenthemself]

What a good Steinbeck run! Makes me want to do some rereading.

[eor]

I picked up an ebook compilation of the Steinbeck short novels, so it was easy to read them all at once. I feel for the most part Steinbeck loves his characters even if things don't end well for them. He writes them with foibles and failings, but he makes them relatable. I like the fact that he seems to appreciate all different types of people.
The only story I didn't really like was "The Pearl". In "The Pearl", I thought he was just torturing the main characters for no reason. Like he was trying to prove just how shit the world is to people at the bottom and they are allowed absolutely zero happiness. Now I agree that the world is shit to people at the bottom, but if a well-educated white male is going to write that he should probably stick someone who looks and speaks like him in the place of getting the walloping.