Saturday, January 1, 2022

Books Read 2021

 It's been a rollercoaster. We lost my mother-in-law, although we must have done something right because she never once caught Covid, but she was on her third round with lung cancer and the emphysema was progressive. After almost nine years as a veterinary assistant, I found my way out. The level of burnout I was experiencing is only truly hitting home now that I'm away from the job.

And the most magnificent of year end gifts, I have a new job beginning in 2022, and I can't think of a better place to post about this: I will now be working for the Henrico County Public Library! The Librarian's Child is now himself a librarian.

For the first time, my reading list required me to also use the back of the page in the little notebook where I record this. With all the shiny books that will be staring at me from the shelves this year, I cannot imagine how big this list may grow.

The Classic Illustrated Sherlock Holmes - Sir A.C.Doyle

Dodger - T. Pratchett

Study in Scarlet - Sir A.C.Doyle (yeah this wasn't in the other collection)

Mind Fields - J. Yerka & H. Ellison

The Seventh Bride - T. Kingfisher

The Wee Free Men - T. Pratchett

Hat Full of Sky - T. Pratchett

Wintersmith - T. Pratchett

Stardust - Neil Gaiman

I Shall Wear Midnight - T. Pratchett

The Shepherd's Crown - T. Pratchett

Only You Can Save Mankind - T. Pratchett

A Princess of Mars - Edgar R. Burroughs

The Radium Girls - Kate Moore

Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman

TAZ: The Crystal Kingdom (comic) - McElroys

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - Becky Chambers

A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers

Waking up Screaming - H.P.Lovecraft

Unnatural Creatures - Various/Editor Neil Gaiman

The Black Hand - Will Thomas

Barnum! in Secret Service to the U.S.A. (comic) - Howard Chaykin

The Rise & Fall of the Gallivanters - M.J. Beaufrand (found at Dollar Store and worth so much more than a dollar!)

Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers

Slewfoot - Brom

Everybody has a Podcast (except you) - McElroys

The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Storyteller: Ghosts (comic) - Various

The Storyteller: Sirens (comic) - Various