First Quarter 2022 Quarter-in-Review

It has been some quarter.  If it seems like posting has been slow across both blogs, I have a good excuse!  Our son was born in early February.  Which has kept me real busy, but I managed to still do some reading and writing (and a lot more TV watching than normal).

Mount TBR inched up a bit, but that was driven by hitting three new-to-me local bookstores early in the quarter and an unexpected spate of ARCs toward the end of the quarter.  I did okay in my reading, even with it being heavy on doorstoppers.  I read the first third of Shogun in the hospital and another 200 pages during jury duty but still have hundreds of pages to go.  I only have two The Wheel of Time books left.  Those are all rereads.  For a first read doorstopper, I finally got around to reading Watchmen.  I should get a post up on the graphic novel, the movie, and the TV show in the next few weeks.  One reading goal for next quarter (in addition to making progress on a 126-hour audiobook courtesy of Gibbon): get back to reading on my Kindle.  The convenience is key with a newborn.

I didn’t do all that bad blogging, either, especially early in the quarter.  I got three Vintage SF Month posts up, another Throwback SF Thursday post, and three reviews at Hillbilly Highways.

My Foundations reading stalled.  I need to power through the Federalist Papers and Gibbon.  The Odyssey might be the next fiction I start.

Newborn Watch Party

• Reacher (Amazon Prime)
• Cobra Kai (Netflix) (all seasons)
• Silicon Valley (HBO Max) (last season)
• Bosch (Amazon Prime) (last season)
• Watchmen (HBO Max)
• The Wire (HBO Max) (rewatch, all seasons)
• Shadow and Bone (Netflix)
• Succession (HBO Max)

January, February, and March Reviews

• A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Vintage Science Fiction Month)
• Conan the Valorous by John Maddox Roberts (Vintage Science Fiction Month)
• Fire Time by Poul Anderson (Vintage Science Fiction Month)
• Poachers by Tom Franklin (Hillbilly Highways)
• The Black Company by Glen Cook (Throwback SF Thursday)
• And Your Enemies Closer by Rob Parker, narrated by Warren Brown (Hillbilly Highways)
• The Darkest Game by Joseph Schneider (Hillbilly Highways)

Books acquired

• The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague
• The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard by Marc Eliot
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (illustrated by Dave Gibbons)
• Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty, ed. by Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson
• The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
• Joe by Larry Brown
• Doctor No by Ian Fleming
• And Your Enemies Closer by Rob Parker, narrated by Warren Brown (audiobook)
• The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
• The Black Company by Glen Cook (review copy, second copy)
• Gardening Basics for Dummies by Steven A. Frowine and the editors at the National Gardening Association
• In the Shadow of Lightning by Brian McClellan (review copy)
• The Darkest Game by Joseph Schneider (review copy)
• The Sweet Goodbye by Ron Corbett (review copy)

Books started

• The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (reread)
• Fire Time by Poul Anderson
• The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It by Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague
• The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard by Marc Eliot
• Doctor No by Ian Fleming
• Shogun by James Clavell (reread)
• And Your Enemies Closer by Rob Parker, narrated by Warren Brown (audiobook)
• The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
• The Black Company by Glen Cook (review copy, second copy)
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (illustrated by Dave Gibbons)
• The Darkest Game by Joseph Schneider (review copy)
• The Sweet Goodbye by Ron Corbett (review copy)

Books finished

• A Fighting Man of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
• Fire Time by Poul Anderson
• The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard by Marc Eliot
• Doctor No by Ian Fleming
• The Black Company by Glen Cook (review copy)
• The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
• The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson (reread)
• 51 Imperfect Solutions: States and the Making of American Constitutional Law by Jeffrey S. Sutton
• Watchmen by Alan Moore (illustrated by Dave Gibbons)
• And Your Enemies Closer by Rob Parker, narrated by Warren Brown (audiobook)
• The Darkest Game by Joseph Schneider (review copy)

Mount TBR Counter

• First Quarter: +3
• Year-to-date: +3