Reading Roundup Wrapup: February 2023

Pick of the month: Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett. I think when you read a Pratchett novel, there's no other defensible choice you can make! All the best jokes, of course, but a real human core, too. Hopefully I continue to make good progress through my wife's Discworld novels, but also hopefully I get around to writing them up in more detail here!

All books read:

1. The Old Curiosity Shop: A Tale by Charles Dickens
2. Death’s Head: Clone Drive by Tini Howard, Kei Zama, et al.
3. Pirates in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by John R. Neill
4. Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
5. Marvel Masterworks Presents The Black Panther, Volume 1: Collecting Jungle Action Nos. 6-24 by Don McGregor, Rich Buckler, Billy Graham, et al.
6. Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett
7. JSA: Ragnarok by Paul Kupperberg
8. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Lust’s Latinum Lost (and Found) by Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann
9. Doctor Who: Big Bang Generation by Gary Russell 

I look at a list of nine novels and wish that it could be longer... then I look at it again and remind myself it contained one Charles Dickens novel and one Brando Sando! What else could I realistically accomplish? 

All books acquired:

1. The Purple Prince of Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by John R. Neill
2. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller
3. Transformers: Aspects of Evil! by Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman, Staz Johnson, et al.
4. Transformers: Fallen Star by Simon Furman, Simon Coleby, Stuart Johnson, et al.

Currently reading:

• Shards of Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold
• Mistress of Chaos: Collected comic strips from the pages of Doctor Who Magazine by Scott Gray, John Ross, Mike Collins, and David A Roach
• Legion of Super-Heroes: Before the Darkness, Volume One by Gerry Conway, Paul Kupperberg, E. Nelson Bridwell, J. M. DeMatteis, Jim Janes, Steve Ditko, Jim Sherman, Frank Chiaramonte, Dave Hunt, et al.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: The High Country by John Jackson Miller
• Doctor Who Magazine: Special Edition #59: The 2022 Yearbook edited by Marcus Hearn
• Star Trek: Prometheus: The Root of All Rage by Bernd Perplies and Christian Humberg 

Next up in my rotations:

1. Dragonsong: Volume One of the Harper Hall Trilogy by Anne McCaffrey
   
2. American Splendor: Our Movie Year by Harvey Pekar et al.
   
3. Twenty-First Century Science Fiction edited by David G. Hartwell and Patrick Nielsen Hayden
4. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Missing by Una McCormack
   

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 677 (down 4)

Two sequential months of decrease... but can I make it to three? C'mon March!