Update: What I’m Reading and My Reading Challenges!

Ok so let’s update my January reading and my Reading Challenges. So far I’ve finished two of my projected reads for the month and I’m well into the three other reads!  The books I finished were Strangled and The Monkey’s Raincoat! The three that I am reading are….

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

This book has been on my TBR pile for several years.I first became a fan of Harry Dresden through the TV Show that was on SciFy several years ago. In reading about the show at Wikipedia, I see that it was on the air in 2007 . So sometime between then and now, I picked up the book. Heres a little more about Storm Front Butcher’s first novel.  From Wikipedia

he wrote the first book in The Dresden Files—about a professional wizard, named Harry Dresden, in modern-day Chicago—as an exercise for a writing course in 1996 at the age of 25.

For two years, Butcher floated his manuscript among various publishers before hitting the convention circuit to make contacts in the industry. After meeting Butcher in person, Ricia Mainhardt, the agent who discovered Laurell K. Hamilton, agreed to represent him, which kick-started his writing career.[5] However, Butcher and Mainhardt have since parted ways; Jennifer Jackson is his current agent

Six months after Butcher was signed by Mainhardt, Storm Front, the first novel in The Dresden Files, was picked up by Roc/Penguin Books for publishing. It was released as a paperback in April 2000. Read More

So far I am really enjoying the book!

.Don’t Talk to Strangers – Amanda Kyle Williams

Along with Storm Front I am also reading Don’t Talk to Strangers the third installment Amanda Kyle Williams Keye Street series. In this episode, Keye leaves here usual home of Atlanta and takes a job consulting on a case in Whisper, Ga, where the bodies of two young girls  who had disappeared ten years apart have been found. They had been kidnapped and held captive and then brutally,murdered, their bodies were then dumped the same site!!  The case presents a real challenge to Keye’s profiling ability, while the appeal of the Sheriff she’s working with challenges her fidelity to Rauser!!

Revelation Space – Alastair Reynolds

Keeping with my resolution to read more Science Fiction, I am working my way through Revelation Space. It has taken me a while to get comfortable with the plot and the various characters. But that is something that is normal for me when I read science fiction or fantasy. For example I read The Hobbit back when I was in college and loved it. But for years I’ve put off reading the Lord of the Rings trilogy because I thought it would be too hard to get back into the books. It’s the same excuse I use for not reading more of  Terry Practchett’s DiscWorld books. I know that it’s a lame excuse and maybe I can get past it this year!!

Anyway Revelation Space is a terrific book and I am enjoying reading it and of course the other two books.

So January has been a good reading month so far and an encouraging start to 2015. Below you well find a little spreadsheet that I mad up so that I can track my progress through the year. Can you say obsessive, I know my wife will say it is. anyway we’ll see how long it lasts…….