Reading Roundup Wrapup: August 2024

Pick of the month: Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson. I read a lot of good stuff this month—Primo Levi, Miracleman, Alif the Unseen. But I decided this based on what was the book I was most likely to go around enthusiastically recommending to someone, which was this neat sf murder mystery.

All books read:

1. Miracleman, Book Three: Olympus by The Original Writer, John Totleben, et al.
2. Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare by Jason Fry with Paul R. Urquhart
3. Miracleman: The Golden Age by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham
4. Drunk on All Your Strange New Words by Eddie Robson
5. Miracleman: The Silver Age by Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham
6. The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson
7. Doctor Who: Galaxy Four: Number 104 in the Doctor Who Library by William Emms
8. The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
9. Yankee in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by Dick Martin
10. Alif the Unseen by G. Willow Wilson
11. The Dispossessed by Szilárd Borbély
12. Kimota!: The Miracleman Companion by George Khoury

All books acquired:

1. Sculptor by Scott McCloud
2. The Flash by William Messner-Loebs and Greg LaRocque Omnibus, Vol. 1 by Williams Messner-Loebs, Greg LaRocque, Mike Baron, Butch Guice, Larry Mahlstedt, et al.
3. Doctor Who: The Essential Terrance Dicks, Volume One by Terrance Dicks
4. Star Trek: Titan: Fortune of War by David Mack
5. The Father-Thing: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3 by Philip K. Dick
6. Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster by Terrance Dicks
   

Currently reading:

• The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian Scientist, Mountaineer, and Public Intellectual by Roland Jackson
• The Father-Thing: The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick, Volume 3 by Philip K. Dick

Up next in my rotations:

1. Star Trek: Prey, Book 3: The Hall of Heroes by John Jackson Miller
2. The Pelican History of England: 3. English Society in the Early Middle Ages (1066-1307) by Doris Mary Stenton
3. The End of the World: Classic Tales of Apocalyptic Science Fiction compiled by Michael Kelahan 
4. Victorians and the Prehistoric: Tracks to a Lost World by Michael Freeman

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 665 (down 2) 

Some pretty solid progress this month!