Reading Roundup Wrapup: January 2024

Pick of the month: The Wife in Space by Neil and Sue Perryman. Okay, this is kind of a cheat. I don't think any one volume of The Wife in Space (I read three of them this month, and five of them last) is the best book I read all month... but I do think that as a unit they are the best thing I read in January. Delightful experience reliving the best of what Doctor Who has to offer.

All books read:

1. The Fit One: The Wife in Space, Volume 6 by Neil and Sue Perryman
2. The Court Jester: The Wife in Space, Volume 7 by Neil and Sue Perryman
3. Mighty Marvel Masterworks Presents The Black Panther, Volume 1: Collecting The Fantastic Four Nos. 52-54, 56, Tales of Suspense Nos. 97-99, Captain America No. 100, The Avengers Nos. 52, 62, 73-74 & Daredevil No. 52 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Roy Thomas, John Buscema, et al.
4. Lucky Bucky in Oz by John R. Neill
5. Black Panther: The Complete Collection, Volume 4 by Christopher Priest, Dan Fraga, Jorge Lucas, Jim Calafiore, Patrick Zircher, Joe Bennett, et al.
6. Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
7. The Crafty Sod: The Wife in Space, Volume 8 by Neil and Sue Perryman
8. Nextwave, Agents of H.A.T.E.: This Is What They Want by Warren Ellis, Stuart Immonen, et al.
9. Nextwave, Agents of H.A.T.E.: I Kick Your Face by Warren Ellis, Stuart Immonen, et al. 
10. Empire of Ivory: Book Four of Temeraire by Naomi Novik
11. Marvel Zombies: Battleworld by Simon Spurrier, Kev Walker, et al.

Okay numbers. I read (or still am reading) a number of long books: Antkind, Empire of Ivory (ish), Martin Chuzzlewit, The Best SF of the Year, so even though my reading has been pretty consistent, I haven't racked up a lot of books... except that my morning comic books have been collected editions (#3, 5, 8-9, 11), which have made up what would otherwise have been a little deficit. (Often my morning comics are single issues, which don't count for my reading statistics.)

All books acquired:

1. Star Trek: The Next Generation: Headlong Flight by Dayton Ward
2. The MTMTE Notebooks: Vol. 3 by James Roberts
3. The MTMTE Notebooks: Vol. 4 by James Roberts
4. The Complete[d] Saucer Country by Paul Cornell, Ryan Kelly, et al.
5. The Norumbegan Quartet, Vol. 3: The Empire of Gut and Bone by M. T. Anderson

Currently reading:

• The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
• The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 7 edited by Neil Clarke
• Monsters Unleashed! by Cullen Bunn, Steven McNiven, Greg Land, Leinil Francis Yu, Salvador Larroca, Adam Kubert, et al. 

Up next in my rotations:

1. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Long Mirage by David R. George III 
2. The Pelican History of England: 3. English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) by Doris Mary Stenton 
3. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi 
4. The Dispossessed by Szilárd Borbély

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 664 (no change)

Holding steady!