2020: The Reads, halfway post
Hey look! The once monthly post!!!!
Here's a quick look at what I've been reading in 2020, which has been a fucking roller coaster of a year. I'm management at a grocery store, and the Covid rush in March and April pretty much made my attention span worthless--the same thing generally happens around Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the first three weeks of our crazy rush in March were like the day before Thanksgiving combined with a Snow Rush every day. A handful of long days and a shortage of days off left me unable to sit and read much more than 8 or 10 pages at a time.
Things started to edge back toward normal in May. I think this past month, I've finally begun to relax.
The last book on the list, Shakespeare for Squirrels, by Christopher Moore, I'm almost done with, and should probably finish by tomorrow, so I'm going ahead and counting it for June.....
Favorites, so far? It was and is an amazing book. I was giving The Water Dancer a B or even a B-, but I've kept going back to a couple parts of it, and I think I like it better now with some distance. Dog of the South was a lot of fun.
I'm really proud of my friend Janet for publishing Salt + Stilettos. It's not my normal choice of genre, but I dug it. She does good work, and I'm excited to see what she does in the future.....
January
It by Stephen King
Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World by: David Koenig
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson
Cold Storage by David Koepp
February
Bucky F*cking Dent by David Duchovny
I Stooged to Conquer by Moe Howard
Quincy Harker: Year One by John Hartness
Dog of the South by Charles Portis
March
Carved from Stone and Dream: Los Nefilim, Book 2 by T. Frohock
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters edited by Tim Marquitz and NX Sharps
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
April
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Under the Black Hat: my Life in the WWE and Beyond by Jim Ross w/ Paul O'Brien
The Deep by Alma Katsu
May
Buzzsaw: The Improbable Story of How the Washington Nationals won the World Series
by Jesse Dougherty
Ronan Boyle and the Swamp of Certain Death by Thomas Lennon
Misery by Stephen King
June
The Game by Jon Pessah
Salt + Stilettos by Janet Walden-West
Time's Demon by DB Jackson
The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey
Dark Tower: the Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore
Here's a quick look at what I've been reading in 2020, which has been a fucking roller coaster of a year. I'm management at a grocery store, and the Covid rush in March and April pretty much made my attention span worthless--the same thing generally happens around Thanksgiving and Christmas, and the first three weeks of our crazy rush in March were like the day before Thanksgiving combined with a Snow Rush every day. A handful of long days and a shortage of days off left me unable to sit and read much more than 8 or 10 pages at a time.
Things started to edge back toward normal in May. I think this past month, I've finally begun to relax.
The last book on the list, Shakespeare for Squirrels, by Christopher Moore, I'm almost done with, and should probably finish by tomorrow, so I'm going ahead and counting it for June.....
Favorites, so far? It was and is an amazing book. I was giving The Water Dancer a B or even a B-, but I've kept going back to a couple parts of it, and I think I like it better now with some distance. Dog of the South was a lot of fun.
I'm really proud of my friend Janet for publishing Salt + Stilettos. It's not my normal choice of genre, but I dug it. She does good work, and I'm excited to see what she does in the future.....
January
It by Stephen King
Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World by: David Koenig
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Another Man's Moccasins by Craig Johnson
Cold Storage by David Koepp
February
Bucky F*cking Dent by David Duchovny
I Stooged to Conquer by Moe Howard
Quincy Harker: Year One by John Hartness
Dog of the South by Charles Portis
March
Carved from Stone and Dream: Los Nefilim, Book 2 by T. Frohock
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King
Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters edited by Tim Marquitz and NX Sharps
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
April
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
Under the Black Hat: my Life in the WWE and Beyond by Jim Ross w/ Paul O'Brien
The Deep by Alma Katsu
May
Buzzsaw: The Improbable Story of How the Washington Nationals won the World Series
by Jesse Dougherty
Ronan Boyle and the Swamp of Certain Death by Thomas Lennon
Misery by Stephen King
June
The Game by Jon Pessah
Salt + Stilettos by Janet Walden-West
Time's Demon by DB Jackson
The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handey
Dark Tower: the Drawing of the Three by Stephen King
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Shakespeare for Squirrels by Christopher Moore
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