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Originally Posted by Dazrin
Wow, I am way behind here.
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I am considering continuing the James Potter series when I am done since I am enjoying this re-read so much but I am not sure yet. I read the first JP book ( James Potter and the Hall of Elders' Crossing) in 2011 and enjoyed it but never picked up the second one. |
Yet again, way behind here.
I finished the Harry Potter series on the 9th (less than 5 days to finish the last 2 books) but have decided to have a break from fantasy for a while and am skipping the James Potter series for now.
Instead I have read
Odd Interlude by Dean Koontz (book 4.5 of the Odd Thomas paranormal thriller series) and then a couple political thrillers by Stephen Hunter (
Point of Impact) and David Baldacci (
The Camel Club) from my library. I enjoyed all three of these a lot. The Odd one was just a novella, but was well done. I hope the person that we met there will feature in another story down the road. Apparently Point of Impact was adapted into the movie
Shooter, which I haven't seen, and I really enjoyed it as well. Bob Lee is very "cunning" if not classically brilliant. The Camel Club is a good conspiracy novel complete with most of the tropes. Another good distraction from normal life. I will continue with Baldacci's King and Maxwell series #1,
Split Second, tomorrow.
Today I had a couple flights for work and managed to read Neal Stephenson's essay "
In the Beginning was the Command Line" which was basically his love story to Linux/BeOS. He had some good points, but overall it wasn't great. Although part of that is that he wrote it in 1999, so forever ago in internet years, and it hasn't aged well. I do wonder if he has updated it since OS X for the Mac; I am wondering what his take on that is.
Right now my page count for January is 3,856 which is 9 pages short of my all-time high reading month. Maybe I need to read a short tomorrow instead of Split Second.
