Reading Roundup Wrapup: October 2020

Pick of the month: That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton. Sometime I find determining these things easy; sometimes, I have to dump everything into Preference Revealer and see what emerges after a series of one-on-one match-ups. This was one of the latter months, with Thor: The Mighty Avenger, The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob, and Passing all vying for the top spot, and plus I read some really solid stuff, like The Stuff of Dreams and Persepolis Rising. But That Was Then, This Is Now won out, and I can't complain about that: simpler than The Outsiders in some ways, but again nuanced in its depiction of what it means to grow up, and surprisingly dark in spots. And it's not like The Outsiders is cheerful!

All books read:
1. Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Stuff of Dreams by James Swallow
2. Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
3. Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: Shield of the Gods by Christopher L. Bennett
4. Thor: The Mighty Avenger by Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee
5. Fauna by Christiane Vadnais
6. Persepolis Rising: Book Seven of The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
7. Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, Vol 3: The Fountains of Forever by Nick Abadzis, Elena Casagrande, Eleonora Carlini, Rachael Stott & Leonardo Romero
8. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Q Are Cordially Uninvited… by Rudy Josephs
9. Passing by Nella Larsen
10. Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor, Vol 3: Hyperion by Robbie Morrison, George Mann, Daniel Indro, Mariano Laclaustra, and Ronilson Freire
11. The Lifted Veil, Brother Jacob by George Eliot
12. That Was Then, This Is Now by S. E. Hinton
13. Poor Yorick: a chooseable-path adventure by Ryan North, William Shakespeare, and YOU 

All books acquired:
1. Fauna by Christiane Vadnais
2. Persepolis Rising: Book Seven of The Expanse by James S.A. Corey
3. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf
4. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 5 edited by Neil Clarke
5. Star Trek: The Fall: A Ceremony of Losses by David Mack
6. Star Trek: The Fall: The Poisoned Chalice by James Swallow
7. Star Trek: The Fall: Peaceable Kingdoms by Dayton Ward

A pretty productive month. I was worried by some big and/or slow books early on (Hothouse and Persepolis Rising), but near the end of the month, I zipped through five books in as many days, making up for it. And many of them were actually on my reading list!

All books on "To be read" list: 661 (down 2)