Reading Roundup Wrapup: January 2023

Pick of the month: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. This was an easy pick, a quality work of original sf about Jesuits... in space! Of course I enjoyed it (much as I did its spiritual predecessor A Case of Conscience); more than anything else, Russell's characters come to life in their smallness and their largeness.

All books read:

1. Joy to the Worlds: Mysterious Speculative Fiction for the Holidays by Maia Chance, Janine A. Southard, Raven Oak, and G. Clemans
2. Star Trek: Prometheus: Fire with Fire by Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg
3. Star Trek: Titan: Absent Enemies by John Jackson Miller
4. The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
5. The Island of Lost Girls by Manjula Padmanabhan
6. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6 edited by Neil Clarke
7. Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Light Fantastic by Jeffrey Lang 

Not a big month in raw numbers, but I read several large books: The Sparrow, The Island of Lost Girls, and almost all of (but not quite) Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.

All books acquired:

1. The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale by Charles Dickens
2. House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
3. The Island of Lost Girls by Manjula Padmanabhan
4. The MTMTE Notebooks: Vol. 1 by James Roberts
5. The MTMTE Notebooks: Vol. 2 by James Roberts
6. Death's Head: Clone Drive by Tini Howard, Kei Zama, et al.
7. Doctor Who: Big Bang Generation by Gary Russell
8. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 3 edited by Neil Clarke

Currently reading:

• The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale by Charles Dickens
• Death’s Head: Clone Drive by Tini Howard, Kei Zama, et al.
• Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
• Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
• JSA: Ragnarok by Paul Kupperberg
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found) by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann
• Doctor Who: Big Bang Generation by Gary Russell

Next up in my rotations:

1. Star Trek: Prometheus: The Root of All Rage by Christian Humberg and Bernd Perplies
2. Dragonsong: Volume One of the Harper Hall Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey
   
3. American Splendor: Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar et al.
   
4. Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 681 (down 4)

My biggest decrease since December 2020!