So as the year kicks off and we’ve now done an entire week, I can look back at my reading with a bit of happiness. I ended last year re-reading a series of fanfiction I hadn’t come across in 2 decades, and had finished the second of those by the end of the 2nd of the month and completed the trilogy on the 5th.
After that, I wanted a change from fanfic, so picked out Someone’s Been Messing with Reality, which was a quick young adult read. it was different, I went in expecting it to be American and it was set in Ireland, which was a nice change of pace to be honest.
next, the highlight of the week has to be the incredible technocrime debut In the Blink of an Eye, featuring a grieving cop returning to the workplace and adopting a companion artificial intelligence to help her solve crimes. A fairly standard police procedural outside the AI twist, but what a twist. it hit a lot of important points.
And finally, to end this week, a short science fiction novel from Robert Sheckley, the humour of which would probably have meant more to me if I wasn’t rolling off the crime high at 2 in the morning.
So no DNF’s this week. 2 Fanfictions, 2 science-fiction and a crime to open the year, with a total actual reading time of 27 hours and 14 minutes. I was still off work during the first 2 days of the year, so that probably helped. I’m not expecting any new releases in the coming week, so will continue to pull from my ever-growing TBR pile to feed the reading fires.
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