Reading Roundup Wrapup: November 2023

Pick of the month: Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold. Well, you know, everyone says the Vorkosigan books are good and it turns out they are right. I had actually read this one before but appreciated it much more this time around. More on it later, but it is a very good book about parenting!

All books read: 

1. The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker
2. The Wonder City of Oz by John R. Neill
3. Elantris: Tenth Anniversary Author’s Definitive Edition by Brandon Sanderson
4. The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume Two: Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
5. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
6. Once & Future: Deluxe Edition, Book One by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora
7. Once & Future, Volume Four: Monarchies in the U.K. by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora
8. Bloodstone & the Legion of Monsters by Dennis Hopeless, John Warner, Stever Gerber, Juan Doe, Mike Vosburg, Sal Buscema, Val Mayerik, Alan Kupperberg, et al.
9. Once & Future, Volume Five: The Wasteland by Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora 

A number of books that are a bit on the long side (#1, 3, 4, and 5, plus the book I'm reading now) conspired to keep my numbers down despite some pretty steady reading and the benefit of a solo plane trip. Thankfully four comics came along at the end of the month!

All books acquired:

1. The Collected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume Two: Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
2. Bloodstone & the Legion of Monsters by Dennis Hopeless, John Warner, Stever Gerber, Juan Doe, Mike Vosburg, Sal Buscema, Val Mayerik, Alan Kupperberg, et al.
3. Diplomatic Immunity by Lois McMaster Bujold
4. The Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
5. Legion of Super-Heroes Archives, Volume 2 by Edmond Hamilton, John Forte, et al.
6. Liberation of the Daleks: Collected Comic Strips from the Pages of Doctor Who Magazine by Alan Barnes and Lee Sullivan

Slightly higher than normal, I think. 

Currently reading:

• Roderick Random by Tobias Smollett
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7 edited by Neil Clarke
• Doctor Who: Short Trips #19: Dalek Empire edited by Nicholas Briggs with Simon Guerrier
• Liberation of the Daleks: Collected Comic Strips from the Pages of Doctor Who Magazine by Alan Barnes and Lee Sullivan 

Up next in my rotations:

1. Otherworld Barbara Vol. 2 by Moto Hagio
2. Adventures With the Wife in Space: Living with Doctor Who by Neil Perryman with Sue Perryman
3. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Long Mirage by David R. George III 
4. The Pelican History of England: 3. English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) by Doris Mary Stenton
   

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 666 (no change)