READ LIST: August 2021

 At least once a year (ambitiously, it'd be every season), I'd like to post an updated read list for books I've started, need to start, want to get, and have finished. Bonus if, at the end of each post, I can list some things I've learned about writing from the books I have finished.

 I don't know what's worse--the length of the to-do list on my kitchen table (composed of several scotch-taped sticky notes continually reminding me to see the dentist), or the number of books that have hung out on my "Read List" since college. I graduated in 2018.

But, this year, I have at least managed to evolve in terms of my reading goals. Instead of stacking to-read books around the room as tripping hazards, I converted to eBooks, so the only thing left to accidentally step on is a very expensive Kindle (:

Anyways, here it is, my shit reading list for the season:

STARTED

• Chronicles of Narnia 1
• Game of Thrones (George RR Martin)
• Collection of Arsene Lupin (Maurice Leblanc)
• The Amber Spyglass (Phillip Pullman)
• Clarkesworld Magazine (Issue 173)
• Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine (Jan/Feb 2018)
• Axiom's End (Lindsay Ellis)

BACKLOG

• LOTR: The Two Towers (JRR Tolkein, Audiobook)
• Chronicles of Narnia 2, 3 (CS Lewis)
• Inkheart Trilogy (Cornelia Funke)
• Dune (Frank Herbert)
• Death Takes a Gander (Christine Goff)
• LOTR: Return of the King (JRR Tolkein, Audiobook)
• reread: On Writing and Worldbuilding 1 (Timothy Hicks)
  
• reread: Elements of Style (William Strunke Jr.) 
• Redwall Series (Brian Jacques) 

WISHLIST

• Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation (Asimov)
• Mage Out of Time (Neil Breault)
• Wheel of Time Series (James Oliver Rigney Jr.)
• Discworld Series (Terry Pratchett) 
• Song of the Forever Rains (EJ Mellow)
• (and more not worth mentioning yet) 

FINISHED (so far for 2021)

• Mystic River (Dennis Lehane)
• The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife (Phillip Pullman)
• Nordic Tales (Chronicle Books)
• Celtic Tales (Chronicle Books)
• Speculative North #2 (TDotSpec Inc) 
• LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring (JRR Tolkein, Audiobook)
• The Oriental Express (Agatha Christie) 
• Redwall: Taggerung (Brian Jacques)