I've never actually counted how many books I've read. It's incredible to think that I've been reading books my entire life, and there are a thousand lifetimes of books that have been written.
My resolution this year was to read one book a week. I wanted to gauge how many books I read a year, and came up with about 3 per month (give or take considering I'm a binge reader and will go a couple months without reading - GASP!). Frankly 36 books didn't not seem like enough of a challenge for me when my eyes were bright with NYE fireworks, so I upped it to one book a week. 15 weeks in and I am finally experiencing a reading plateau where I have time to share my experience.
Here is a list of books I have read this year (in order):
- The Martian by Andy Weir
- The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra
- Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome by John Scalzi
- The American Heiress by Daisy Goodwin
- Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran
- Lock In by John Scalzi
- Only Time Will Tell by Jeffrey Archer
- The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
- The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles, #2) by Jeffrey Archer
- Best Kept Secret (The Clifton Chronicles, #3) by Jeffrey Archer
- Lightning by Dean Koontz
- Red Queen (Red Queen Trilogy, #1) by Victoria Aveyard
My favorite book so far:
While the idea of using robots as avatars isn't a new one, the world that John Scalzi creates with his is, in a word, incredible. The effortless way that he incorporates futuristic civil rights, inevitable human nature, and a fantasy world that actually seems attainable, all while creating a story where the reader is invested and interested, is what makes Lock In so consumable.
John Scalzi's in depth world of threeps, Hadens, integrators, and those unaffected by the flu and meningitis-like disease that affected a strong majority of the population has so much room for expansion, and it would be a crying shame if this was the only book in the series.