Some of these titles came out well before 2021, and I also ended up reading all seven of the Harry Potter® books out loud to my eldest daughter this year, but I’d read those myself when they came out back in the early 2000’s, so I won’t count them here, but that took up much of my mental capacity to read this year.
The two Fart Quest books were meant to be read to my daughter so that we could think about starting up some short D&D sessions now that I had built a bunch of terrain panels (pictured inset). But I enjoyed them immensely and didn’t feel like sharing yet. Plus the text is still a little above her reading comprehension level so perhaps next year! I have the third book on order, which was initially scheduled for September, but has been bumped to February of 2022. Chasing New Horizons was an amazing retelling of the Pluto missions, and I was riveted throughout the whole book. The pictures are incredible as well. Black Star Renegades was a fun romp in a Star Wars adjacent sand box. Project Hail Mary was a clever and entertaining entry from The Martian’s Andy Weir, which still proves to be one of my all time favourite books, alongside Jurassic Park, and the Death of Superman novelization. Martha Wells has a fantastic short story series in the Murder Bot Diaries, with the newest installment called Fugitive Telemetry. I had heard a number of people talk about The Forever War, and I can see why, it was pretty good, although a whole lot of current science fiction has leaned heavily on this book, so if I’d have read it much earlier in my formative years, I think it would pack a heck of a wallop. Mars Rover Curiosity was pretty much a text book, which means it was dry, but also informative. A trade off for certain, but, worthy of a read if you love space exploration and drones. The Goblin Emperor was a slow burn, but still exciting and very interesting. It is probably the most off the beaten path for me from this years selection of reading, but I really did enjoy the palace/royal intrigue elements. Out of nowhere comes the last on the list Troll Fell, which was a quickly paced story of rural viking woes, and trolls, and gold & treasure.
As I mentioned earlier I have the third Fart Quest book on order for early 2022, and I also have the last installment of The Expanse, book #9 to read after Christmas. There is a Shiflett brothers sculpting book that was supposed to arrive in November, but hasn’t shipped yet, due to supply/shipping issues with paper coming out of the USA.
I hope you’ve all managed to find the time to read great books of any length. I used to be such a length of novel snob, but since I wrote a book of short stories myself in 2020, which I published in March of this year, I am far more attentive to the story itself rather than the page count.
The Company – A series of interconnected space short stories: Varied works of short fiction
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