To My Amazement, There Stood A Raven

It’s been so long since I’ve sat down and read a damn book. So in the last four months, I have read forty-three books. So I’ve read the fifty listed below:

My “Currently reading” list is going to be where I start 2025:

I’m actively reading The Horns of Ruin (Not pictured. I forgot to mark it as in progress), Storm Front, Midnight in Chernobyl, Reed of God and Wrath of Poseidon. I need to finish The Shadow, Mike Nelson’s Mind Over Matters, Church of Cowards and The Citadel of Forgotten Myths. I’m going to treat those as stand alone books. After that, I’ll finish Prelude to Foundation.

Once I get through Wizard and Glass, I may switch over to audio for the last five Dark Tower books. The Fargo series by Clive Cussler is something I will be done with, after Wrath of Poseidon, so that clears those up.

The Horns of Ruin is a book I snagged once because the cover looked cool. I did the same thing with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Which I actually enjoyed. This one, however, I’ve started a couple of times but still haven’t been able to get it. I just moved it to my Kobo, so now that Storm Front is done, I guess I’ll get through it.

Upcoming for 2025, I would like to get through the following 30-ish books:

• Finish the Dark Tower – Stephen King
• Garrrett, PI – Glenn Cook
• The Martian – Andy Weir
• The Warrior of Mars trilogy – Michael Moorcock
• Relic – Alan Dean Foster
• The rest of the Derrick Storm/Nikki Heat books by Richard Castle
• Make Room Make Room – Harry Harrison

Those are what I want to read, There will be plenty more random, spur of the moment books. As much as I didn’t like the Havana Mysteries books, I might go ahead and read the last few of them. Wheel of time? Eh. I lost interest about halfway through the sixth book a few years ago. That series might be relegated to Audio for the next year.

I don’t know about Foundation. I have eyed the series off and on over the last thirty years, but…Man. I don’t know. I understand that it is supposed to be some sort of sci-fi masterpiece, but do I have that kind of dedication? Meh. Seems unlikely.

I’m tempted to write an elementary school level book report for each book I read in 2025, but I don’t know. That seems like more work than I want to put into this project. I think I’ll give it a go for Midnight in Chernobyl. That sounds like an interesting challenge.