I love to read but many of the books I 'read' these days are audio books because of how much I travel for work. My reading habits are a bit chaotic, and it seems I either binge a book in a couple weeks or take years of stopping and starting. However, since I started tracking my reading 5 years ago I've gotten much better at not leaving books on the back burner. I love to learn about and read history, science fiction, biographies, essays, politics, philosophy, popular science, and more. Recently I've become interested in reading classics too.
I consider the day a book is acquired to be when I start reading it. This is mostly for motivational purposes, otherwise I will get distracted by new books. I will likely move away from this system in 2025.
I love the concept of Bookyrm, and after tracking my reading in spreadsheets for the past 5 years I have now moved it all to Bookwyrm.
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56% complete! Jayp has read 17 of 30 books.
The Reformation and Counter-Reformation represented the greatest upheaval in Western society since the collapse of the Roman Empire a millennium …
I heard that the author died and that his story Long Shot is a must read.
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.
In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy …
A fun and easy read that can be finished in a single sitting. Chambers' writing and narrative style makes me want to read more of her books.
In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy transform themselves.
At the turn …
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved …
A beautiful yet disturbing book. I did not expect to find new-to-me horrors in a nuclear apocalypse story, especially one written so early in the Cold War. It is an incredibly thought provoking book, one that will stick with me for a long time.
Contrary to another reviewer, I believe the lessons in this book are as timely and important today as they were more than 60 years ago. The threat of nuclear annihilation is still with us and will never go away as long as humanity tolerates their existence. Canticle highlights this danger more than any other book I have read.
Since finishing, I have read a number of reviews and analyses of Canticle and am a bit confused by the repeated critique of its lack of female characters. The story takes place almost exclusively in the context of a Catholic monastery where women aren't even allowed. So the …
A beautiful yet disturbing book. I did not expect to find new-to-me horrors in a nuclear apocalypse story, especially one written so early in the Cold War. It is an incredibly thought provoking book, one that will stick with me for a long time.
Contrary to another reviewer, I believe the lessons in this book are as timely and important today as they were more than 60 years ago. The threat of nuclear annihilation is still with us and will never go away as long as humanity tolerates their existence. Canticle highlights this danger more than any other book I have read.
Since finishing, I have read a number of reviews and analyses of Canticle and am a bit confused by the repeated critique of its lack of female characters. The story takes place almost exclusively in the context of a Catholic monastery where women aren't even allowed. So the absence of female characters for much of the book was not something that felt problematic. Even then, two of the most important characters in the final act are women. One of whom drives home how myopic the well meaning monks were from the everyday world and the other half of humanity.
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred …
The Black Cloud is a 1957 science fiction novel by British astrophysicist Fred Hoyle. It …
I don't recall where I heard of this book, but what drew me to it was the fact it's a hard sci-fi book written by a well-known astrophysicist. For a book written almost 70 years ago, it holds up fairly well. Although the writing may not always be the best, this can easily be forgiven since the story is enjoyable and the author was not a professional fiction writer. I would love a miniseries adaptation of the story.
