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Completed 24 books in 2022, a mixture of theology, history, and fiction.

First, started but haven't finished:

Expository Apologetics - Voddie Baucham
Crazy Horse and Custer - Stephen Ambrose

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Finished books were:

God of the Garden - Andrew Peterson
A Neglected Grace, Family Worship in the Christian Home - Jason Helopoulos
Adorning the Dark - Andrew Peterson
Books 1-5 of the Joe Picket Series - CJ Box
Family Driven Faith - Voddie Baucham
The Silver Chair (Narnia #4) - CS Lewis
Expository Parenting - Josh Niemi
Leviathan Falls - James S. A. Corey
Be Strong (Joshua) - Warren Wiersbe
Be Loyal (Matthew) - Warren Wiersbe
Bonhoeffer - Eric Metaxas
U.S. v Members of Armed Forces - Dale Saran
The Road to Unafraid - Jeff Struecker
The Horse and His Boy (Narnia #5) - CS Lewis
The Sword - Bryan Litfin
The Magicians Nephew (Narnia #6) - CS Lewis
The Terminal List - Jack Carr
The Last Battle (Narnia #7) - CS Lewis
Out of the Silent Planet (Space Trilogy #1) - CS Lewis
The Bible (That only counts as one!)

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- Favorite was the Narnia series--I had never read it before, and thoroughly enjoyed reading them to my kids. It was really hard not to keep going after they went to bed!
- I had never read the entire Bible before, so that was definitely a 2022 goal accomplished (ended up reading NT and Psalms twice, and the OT once). Now I am going through it again, but in chronological order this time. I think it'll be easier for me to see how alot of the Old Testament fits together.

What did ya'll read last year?

Howintheeverlovinhell do you keep track of what you read throughout the year?

I reread the lord of the rings, Correia's Monster Hunters, and WEB Griffin's Brotherhood of War.

I was unable to face rereading Dewey Lambdin's Alan Lewrie series, after learning in January that he had passed in August, leaving us with yet another unfinished naval fiction series.

I have almost finished reading Flammarion's Book of Astronomy, which was my father in law's, and dates from about 1960 or so. I started reading it in 2010. Due to having lost it at least three times for at least a year and a half each time, it has taken me longer to read this than ANY other book I've ever read. There's about 40 pages left, out of 660.

There's been a whole bunch of sci fi stuff, as well as some history. I reread some of David Eddings as well as a An Extra Knot by Hugh Lupus, which started out as a serial alt history on AH.com and has ended up getting published in dead tree, not unlike our own Stuart, except without his own publishing company.

I reread a bunch of Stuart's works this year. Bittersweet, as has been the case for the last couple years.

I read The Privateer, by our own Jeff Thomas, and I still owe him a review on Amazon, once I can figure out how to get them to let me post a review. (Thanks for the signed copy Jeff. Once I convince Amazon to let me post, I will!)

There was a set of books about my home town that were written by a local. I won't bore anyone with those. I read the Smithsonian Guidebook. A couple by Michael Z Williamson (mad Mike) that are worth talking about, Do Unto Others and the Grainne series.

I know there's more, but I can't remember what they are.

Belushi TD

I write them down in a little notebook as I finish them, otherwise there's no way I could remember them all. My memory is not the best and it gets me into all sorts of trouble with the Mrs... :-/

My kids are insisting that I read them LotR now--the (extended) movies are our annual New Years tradition, so I plan to start that soon. MHI is one of my favorite series, and if you haven't read it, the Hard Magic books are just as good. While going through boxes of books (movers show up in 9 days!) I found all my hard copies of TBO, which was a pleasant surprise. Not all of them made it to Kindle, and I had forgotten that I had them.Need to read the Privateer as well--it's sitting on my kindle! Perhaps after I finish Crazy Horse and Custer...

Crazy Horse and Custer is a good introduction, and if you haven’t already I’d recommend Son of the Morning Star and then The Last Stand. I have a good dozen books on Custerana and The Little Bighorn, and the picture grows more opaque - and thus more facinating - as I learn more.

We don’t even know where or when he actually died, which is probably exactly how he likes it.

A couple of standouts were Dune, and The Glass Canoe. The latter is a collection of small stories about life in a working class suburb in Sydney in the 70s, centred on a fairly horrible/typical sounding pub. The title is from a line 'paddling our glass canoes down a river of beer', from memory.

Johnnie Lyle wrote: ↑Tue Jan 03, 2023 3:31 am Crazy Horse and Custer is a good introduction, and if you haven’t already I’d recommend Son of the Morning Star and then The Last Stand. I have a good dozen books on Custerana and The Little Bighorn, and the picture grows more opaque - and thus more facinating - as I learn more.

We don’t even know where or when he actually died, which is probably exactly how he likes it.

Thanks! Son of the Morning star has been in my amazon wish list for quite some time, and I just added The Last Stand to it as well. I'm really enjoying CH&C so far, about 60% complete and it has definitely opened my eyes to that time frame in the West (my knowledge there is very superficial). Now if I just had more time to read instead of doing responsible adult things...

2022... Lots of sci-fi, nothing really memorable. For 2023 I am gearing up to re-read (for the umpteenth time) the absolutely gorgeous Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. I had the lot in paperback once but disposed of them a few years ago, now I am going to rebuy them one by one for the Kindle... less space-consuming that way.

Bouncy70 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:00 am 2022... Lots of sci-fi, nothing really memorable. For 2023 I am gearing up to re-read (for the umpteenth time) the absolutely gorgeous Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. I had the lot in paperback once but disposed of them a few years ago, now I am going to rebuy them one by one for the Kindle... less space-consuming that way.

You know, I've never actually read any of those, or any of the Hornblower series either (though I have read Hornblower-in-Space ). *sigh* I'll keep that in mind for a bit of light reading as I go through the year.

I completely understand about saving space with the kindle. We're about to have our fourth international move (with three homeschooled children) and let me tell you, we have a TON of books. And that's with everyone in the house having their own kindle! I'd say about 90% of our book purchases the past three years have been ebooks, but I find it hard to to buy electronic when they're the same (or greater!) price than the physical copy.

For moving, at least when you have access to USPS, I have found that for anything that you're not actually driving the truck yourself, its FAR cheaper on a pound for pound basis to package your books and ship them media mail. I sent my 40 paper box library from Anchorage to New Jersey for about a quarter of what it would have cost to have the movers do it.

Don't know if you can do that from overseas, but if you can, its the way to go.

Belushi TD

S. Murray wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 11:50 am

Bouncy70 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 06, 2023 2:00 am 2022... Lots of sci-fi, nothing really memorable. For 2023 I am gearing up to re-read (for the umpteenth time) the absolutely gorgeous Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. I had the lot in paperback once but disposed of them a few years ago, now I am going to rebuy them one by one for the Kindle... less space-consuming that way.

You know, I've never actually read any of those, or any of the Hornblower series either (though I have read Hornblower-in-Space ). *sigh* I'll keep that in mind for a bit of light reading as I go through the year.

I completely understand about saving space with the kindle. We're about to have our fourth international move (with three homeschooled children) and let me tell you, we have a TON of books. And that's with everyone in the house having their own kindle! I'd say about 90% of our book purchases the past three years have been ebooks, but I find it hard to to buy electronic when they're the same (or greater!) price than the physical copy.

When I was young, there was stuff I wanted but could not afford. Now that I am old(ish) there is stuff that I want but do not have room for. The Kindle takes care of that for books, at least. Not coffe-table books, but lots-of-text books.