Finished reading: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr. Takes a little while to get there but love when all the threads start to come together. Wonderful. 📚

Got my signed copy of Sword of Kaigen from the Kickstarter. The hardcover turned out great. 📚

Half Price Books flagship store in Dallas. 📚

Finished reading: Age of Myth by Michael J. Sullivan. This was great. Really well paced, seems like a perfect setup for the series. First of six books. 📚

Finished reading: Dungeons & Dragons: The Druid’s Call by E. K. Johnston. I think I was drawn to these prequels because of the fond memories I have of reading Dragonlance back in the day. 📚

Got my copy of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter in the mail today. I continue to be amazed at how great these print editions look. My favorite so far. 📚

Finished reading: The Ember Blade by Chris Wooding. Read the first half of this a few months ago and then took a break before picking it up again. Really gets going in the second half. Excellent. 📚

Finished reading: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter by Brandon Sanderson. This book alone was worth backing the Kickstarter project. Loved it. 📚

Finished reading: The Magician’s Daughter by H. G. Parry. 📚

Finished reading: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers. A great second book. Hope there are more of these. 📚

Finished reading: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson. Another totally different book from his usual. Fun. 📚

Realizing that Brandon Sanderson’s secret project #3 is coming out in just a few days. And it’s another book in the Cosmere! Want to try to finish #2 this week even though they’re not related. 📚

Did not finish: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams. I usually like books about books, but could not get into this one. I think I was too impatient for the plot to go somewhere. 📚

Good morning, Libby fans. Experimental feature now available in Micro.blog: go to this special path in Micro.blog in your web browser: /account/libraries. Enjoy! 📚

On the flight back to Austin, finished reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers. Wonderful. Queued up the second book for later. 📚

Finished reading: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Remembered only a little of this from college astronomy. The audiobook is about 4 hours, great for a short drive today. 📚

Finished reading: Recursion by Blake Crouch. This book blew my mind a little. 📚

Finished reading: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. All the praise for this book is justified. A masterpiece. 📚

Haven’t been able to finish any books lately. Probably way behind where I was for reading goals last year. Not sure if I’m working too much or just no books are quite the right fit. 📚

Finished reading: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik. I really enjoyed this story. First-person for multiple characters was a little awkward, though, and maybe held it back from what it could’ve been. 📚

My copy of Tress of the Emerald Sea arrived! Love the green ink throughout the book. 📚

Finished reading: The Cat who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa. Books about books. 📚

Finished reading: Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A short, great read. 📚

Did not finish: Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft. Just couldn’t get into it. Might try to pick it up again some other time in print instead of audiobook. 📚

Finished reading: Assassin’s Quest by Robin Hobb. An extraordinary series.📚

Loved the first book in this world so decided to get A Day of Fallen Night on release day. Still have a couple other books to finish first before I can start this. 📚

Last night, stayed up until 1am reading Assassin’s Quest. Felt like I was 17 years old instead of 47. 📚

Finished reading: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. So much fun. Still going to skip the movie, doesn’t seem possible to adapt without losing too much. 📚

Finished reading the last few chapters of Royal Assassin by Robin Hobb on the flight back to Austin. Can’t wait for the next one. 📚

Yesterday at the Rose City Book Pub, catching up with @jean. 📚

Finished reading: The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang. Not sure I’m going to continue the series. There’s great stuff here but I’m no longer feeling much sympathy for the main character. 📚

Last night, instead of actually reading, I wasted a lot of time conflicted on whether I could finish reading an e-book before it was due at the library or if I should pause and read something else. Usually juggle 2-3 books (at least 1 audiobook)… So much to read. 📚

Finished reading: River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay. I’m sort of left without the right words, dumbfounded after finishing this. Really good. 📚

Finished reading: The Poppy War by R. F. Kuang. Loved Babel so wanted to read this series too. Strong first book. 📚

Started listening to River of Stars by Guy Gavriel Kay today while on the road. Love his writing. Also have the print version which I may switch to later. 📚

Finished reading: The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu. A mix of historical fiction and fantasy. Took me a while to get into it, but enjoyed it more as it progressed. 📚

Finished reading: Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb. That was excellent. 📚

After several months, decided to cancel Kindle Unlimited. I didn’t think about how it could become an incentive for authors to go Amazon-only, which isn’t good for the larger e-book ecosystem. Still mostly using Libby, purchased books, and Audible. 📚

Finished reading: Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson. First book of the new year! Different than Brandon’s other novels but wonderful in its own way. 📚

Did not finish: Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson. Decided to start 2023 by giving up on this. I want to get back to it one day because I think I’ll like it after I get through the first couple books, but might need to start the series over. 📚

Excited for Brandon Sanderson’s secret book release tomorrow. It has been a long time since I’ve started a book with thousands of other people on the same day. Probably not since Harry Potter. 📚

We re-watched all the Harry Potter movies over the last week or so. Thinking about putting a books re-read on my list for next year… Haven’t read Deathly Hallows since it’s release. 📚

Finished reading: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree. I love fantasy books and I love coffee shops, so how can I not love this? Fun story. 📚

Finished reading: Babel by R. F. Kuang. Fantasy but only just barely, it’s really an alternative history about language, race, class, friendship. Brilliant. 📚

Finished reading: The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson. Mistborn era 2 is a wrap. Really want to reread The Emperor’s Soul now. And not long until the secret project books. 📚

Finished reading: The Light of All That Falls by James Islington 📚

Excited to jump into reading The Lost Metal by Brandon Sanderson, released today. Had a dream the other night where I met Brandon and he critiqued my book collection. 📚

Finished reading: Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand 📚

Finished reading: An Echo of Things to Come by James Islington. There is a lot going on in this. Hope the next book in the series has a little less timeline jumping, but really good. 📚

Finished reading: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Incredible. 📚

Finished reading: The Shadow of What Was Lost by James Islington. Great start to this trilogy. Hit all the right notes for a fantasy series. 📚

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?” Reading All the Light We Cannot See. No spoilers, I’m about halfway through. 📚

Finished reading: The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss. Not what I expected, but a short read and nice complement to his other books. Smiled when I noticed the rhymes, almost could’ve been poetry. 📚

Finished reading: Anxious People by Fredrik Backman. Wonderful characters. Starts kind of all over the place (by design) and really comes together nicely. 📚

My book reading has been a little random lately, bouncing between a few novels based on mood and what is due in Libby soon. On track to read more books in a year than I ever have before. 📚

After working at a coffee shop downtown, took a break to read by the trail. Finished reading: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Loved everything about this book. 📚

Audible: “Next credit arrives on Sep 13, 2022”. Checking today’s date. Reload reload reload. 📚

Reshuffled my Libby holds queue with new books. Also, wasn’t sure I was going to stick with Kindle Unlimited after the free trial because of the limited selection, but I’ve found it’s mostly been worth it as long as a few books I’m interested in are in there. 📚

Finished reading: Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett. Impressed with the way each book in the trilogy built on the initial foundation, taking it much further than I expected. 📚

Did not finish: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I started reading this when the TV show came out. Neat idea but haven’t been able to get back into it. 📚

Finished reading: Shorefall by Robert Jackson Bennett 📚

Finished reading: Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett. Looking forward to the rest of the trilogy. Interesting magic system. 📚

I thought I was following Beto pretty closely, but didn’t realize he was working on a book, out today. Looks good. Ordered: We’ve Got to Try. 📚

Did not finish: The Ruins by Scott Smith. Listened to the first part of this on audiobook with @traci, but it’s not really my kind of book. Don’t particularly care about these characters or how it ends. 📚

Finished reading: The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss 📚

Finished reading: Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson. There is a lot going on in this. So many different point of view characters. Going to start book 2. 📚

Finally starting the Malazan series. I’m reading on Kindle Unlimited which includes the Audible narration as an option, so I can read or listen and it’s synced up. Wish every e-book purchase worked this way. 📚

Finished reading: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 📚

Finished reading: My Neighbor Totoro by Tsugiko Kubo. A short book, for kids or Miyazaki fans. Adds more details and scenes than the movie. Wonderful. 📚

Just discovered The Wandering Inn, an epic 7-book (and counting) fantasy series that the author publishes on the web every week as new chapters are written. Essentially a massive blog, later collected as Kindle and Audible books. 📚

Finished reading: From the River to the Sea by John Sedgwick 📚

Finished reading: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd 📚

Did not finish: Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey. I’ve been reading some older fantasy books that I had missed. I’m 3/4 of the way through this and keep hoping it starts to work for me, but now giving up. 📚

Finished reading: Under Heaven by Guy Gavriel Kay. It had been years since I read any books by Kay. I had almost forgotten how beautiful his writing is. 📚

Got a hardcover of The Lies of Locke Lamora, which I had only read in e-book before. Want to re-read it after I get through some more of my current reading list. 📚

Finished reading: Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas by Stephen Harrigan. Excellent. Took me a while to finish it, but so glad I did. It’s got all the facts but it’s not a textbook-like history… You can tell it’s personal for the author. Well researched, well crafted. 📚

Finished reading: Enchanters' End Game by David Eddings 📚

I don’t buy that many print books anymore. Decided to splurge on this copy of Mistborn. This quick video is my first time looking at it… Really nice paper and ink. 📚

Finished reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Brilliant. I loved this. 📚

Day 3 of the photo challenge is experimental… Didn’t have a good idea for the photo until I was reading (Wise Man’s Fear) and noticed “experiment” on the page. 📚

Now that I’m tracking all of my book reading in Micro.blog, I cleared out my “currently reading” and “want to read” lists in Goodreads. But when I finish a book, after blogging it I do add it to Goodreads just to let Goodreads keep track of my 2022 reading goals. 📚

Finished reading: Castle of Wizardry by David Eddings. When I started this series, I thought it was a little obvious. But I’m enjoying it more and more with each book. 📚

Finished a bunch of work this morning, now taking some time to get into the 2nd book of The Kingkiller Chronicle. Already can tell I’m going to love it. 📚

Finished reading: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh 📚

Finished reading: The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles 📚

I’ve been reading a lot of e-books and audiobooks, so wanted to pick up something new in print. Just arrived: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh. 📚

Finished reading: Magician’s Gambit by David Eddings 📚

Finished reading: The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. Epic. Felt like 2 books and easily could’ve been. I wonder if we could ever see a sequel or novellas with these characters. 📚

Finished reading: The Emperor’s Soul by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished reading: Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings. The series is slow at times but starting to get good. I can see why it’s a classic. 📚

Brandon Sanderson drops some big news in a video on YouTube. I did not see this coming. 📚

Finished reading: Sixth of the Dusk by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished reading: Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings 📚

Finished reading: Stardust by Neil Gaiman 📚

Finished reading: Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson. Love the premise, characters, and strong first half, then I started to wonder if Stephenson had lost the plot… but it comes together and he sticks the landing. 📚

Finished reading: White Sand (Volume 1) by Brandon Sanderson. Another part of the Cosmere. Wonder if he’ll ever release the draft that this graphic novel is based on. 📚

Finished reading: The Art of Wolfwalkers by Charles Solomon. I have a lot of “art of” books, but usually just skim them and then they go on the bookshelf to pick up again later. Decided to actually read this front to back for a change. 📚

Finished reading: How to Stop Time by Matt Haig 📚

Nice to see Maus at the top of the best-sellers list. I actually ordered a copy last week too. I’ve been meaning to re-read it for years… Haven’t read it since I was a kid and one of my friends had a copy. 📚

Finished reading: The Republic of Thieves by Scott Lynch 📚

A date has been set for the IndieWeb personal libraries pop-up session: February 19th. Looking forward to it! 📚

I should be able to finish The Republic of Thieves this week, so I went to order the 4th book in the series… It’s not out yet! Supposedly was set to ship last year. 📚

Finished reading: Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch. First book of 2022. Love this series. 📚

I’m not big on stats, but a positive change I made last year was to get my reading time way up, from a handful of books usually, to 33 books last year. Setting a goal of 40 for 2022. 📚

Finished reading: A Darker Shade of Magic by V. E. Schwab 📚

Feel like I’m almost on the other side of the COVID booster knocking me around for 24 hours. Luckily it was a good rainy weekend to stay in bed anyway. Started reading A Darker Shade of Magic, probably be my last book of 2021. 📚

Read most books as e-books this year, but if I started a series and loved it, I usually picked up the other books in print. I think my bookshelf is going to end up with a lot of book 2s and 3s. 📚

Finished reading: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. This novel is so well crafted. Loved it. 📚

I started reading The Wizard and the Prophet a couple years ago and liked it, but I stalled about halfway through… This glowing review by Seth Godin makes me want to pick it back up and finish it. 📚

Finished reading: State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny. I’ve been listening to the audiobook in the car the last few weeks. I was curious what characters and setting Hillary would come up with based on her experience in the White House and state department. 📚

Finished reading: Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Hot off the press, just got the test printing of my book 30 Days. Very happy with it. Just need to tweak a couple things like margins inside. The print edition of Indie Microblogging will match, with the same size and layout. 📚

Finished reading: Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson 📚

I was thinking a lot about how I track books in Micro.blog and what could be improved. I put together a quick survey to get your thoughts too: forms.gle/6mUbvsohR… 📚

Finished reading: The Library Book by Susan Orlean 📚

Finished reading: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 📚

Just purchased some ISBNs. Starting to get real. 📚

Finished reading: Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Not often that I finish 2 books in the same day, but I’ve been alternating both audiobooks and e-books over the last few weeks. Loved this and couldn’t put it down tonight for the final chapters. 📚

Finished reading: The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers. 📚

Finished reading: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. Ended up listening to the whole thing on audiobook. It was fantastic. 📚

Finished reading: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath. I listened to the audiobook version of this. Lots of good lessons that we could apply to how we talk about Micro.blog. 📚

Finished reading: Mistborn Secret History by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Time to read Rhythm of War. The longer I put off reading it, the more daunting it started to seem. Also got the e-book at the library for whenever 1100 pages isn’t convenient to have with me. 📚

Finished reading: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig 📚

Finished reading The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson. That’s it for the Mistborn series until the final book in the 2nd era is out later this year. 📚

My name is very uncommon, so it’s weird that there’s a character named Manton in The Bands of Mourning that I’m currently reading. Also still need to visit Manton, Michigan one of these years. 📚

Finished reading: Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished reading: Alloy of Law by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished reading: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman 📚

While on the road last weekend, we started the audiobook for Project Hail Mary. I’m now reading the 2nd half in print form because I had already ordered the book, but the audiobook reading is very good. 📚

Finished reading: Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo 📚

I’ve finally been supplementing all the books I buy with also checking out e-books from the library. I love it, except I need to get used to the timing of everything… I was 2/3 of the way through A Man Called Ove when my loan expired. Back into the month-long hold queue. 📚

Finished reading The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab. Unlike anything I’ve read before. Beautiful. There’s never enough time. 📚

Finished reading: The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway 📚

Finished reading Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo. Different kind of book than Shadow and Bone, and it wasn’t until I was halfway through that I really got into it because it takes time for all the backstories to develop. Loved it. 📚

Finished reading Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo, wrapping up the Shadow and Bone trilogy. 📚

Finished reading: Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo 📚

Finished reading Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo. Enjoyed it, so I’m going to read the next 2 books in the trilogy and then queue up the Netflix series. 📚

Finished reading: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones 📚

Finished reading The Sword of Kaigen by M. L. Wang. Halfway through this turned into a different (and even better) story than I was expecting. Surprising and tragic and very good. 📚

Finished reading: Dawnshard by Brandon Sanderson. Now only have Rhythm of War as the last published Stormlight Archive book to read. I bought it already but going to detour into some other books first and save it for later. 📚

Finished reading: Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished listening to the audiobook of How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates, read by Wil Wheaton. I learned a lot from this book. 📚

Finished reading: Sharing a House with the Never-Ending Man: 15 Years at Studio Ghibli by Steve Alpert. Japanese culture, international travel, Miyazaki tidbits, and entertaining stories of meetings and clashes in bringing Ghibli to the rest of the world. Enjoyed it. 📚

Finished listening to the audiobook for The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan. Think I’m going to switch over to the print version for the next book in the series and see how it compares. 📚

I’ve been reading Big Wonderful Thing by Stephen Harrigan. Growing up in Austin, I thought I knew Texas history, but this book has so many details that are new to me. Both extraordinary and heartbreaking. Not quite halfway through, just after the Civil War. 📚

Finished reading: Edgedancer by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished reading: No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier 📚

Finished reading: Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, Book 2) by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished reading: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, Book 1) by Brandon Sanderson 📚

Finished reading: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson. Discovering the Mistborn series and reading the first 3 books mostly back to back reminded me of how I felt when I was younger, reading every book I could get my hands on. 📚

Finished listening to the audiobook version of Eye of the World by Robert Jordan. I had always put off reading this series because there are so many books, but I’m finding the audiobook great to supplement podcasts and other books. 📚

Finished reading The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson, 2nd book in the Mistborn trilogy. 📚

Finished Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson. It’s fun to get back into reading fantasy. Looking forward to the rest of the Mistborn series and Sanderson’s other books. 📚

Currently reading: The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Book recommendations challenge this week on Micro.blog! Check out the books section of Discover. And nice timing, I haven’t started reading it yet but just today Dan Moren’s latest arrived in the mail. 📚

Reading more of App Launch Map Field Guide from Aleen Simms after picking it up on launch week. Great advice on helping you tell the story of your app. 📚

I’ve always liked the 36 Hours travel series in The New York Times, so as we’ve been used-book shopping recently, I’ve started picking up the collections. They’re from 2013 but still really nice. 📚

I’ve been thinking about using NaNoWriMo to finally finish my Indie Microblogging book, even though it’s not a novel. I wonder if we can do something special on Micro.blog for anyone writing in November. 📚

One of my goals for 2018 is to read more novels. As soon as I finish Ink & Paint I’m going to start on the 2-3 novels already in my queue. 📚