“Finding the book was like kissing a lightning bolt.”

                                   – Innocent Mage, Karen Miller

I’m fasting from reading untill Saturday. I’ve simply been consumed with it these past weeks (well, my whole life really), and I think I need to set some boundaries. Everything in moderation. I thought, to cement in my mind how much time I’ve spent reading since I’ve come home, I’d try to make a list of all the books I’ve read since May fifteenth.

• Saltation ( a Liaden universe book, and a really cool word besides)
• Variable Star (which I technically was finishing. Finally)
• Harlequin’s Moon
• The Deeds of Paksenarrion (Which all the “adults” in the house have now read, proving we all have reading issues. ~ 1000 pages)
• Murder at the Vicarage
• Unpleasantness at the Belladonna Club (Dorothy Sayers, because I couldn’t let her feel left out)
• Podkayne of Mars (Read from Kentucky to St. Louis, my dad had it on his iPad. 224 “Pages”)
• A P.G. Wodehouse omnibus (of which I mostly contained myself to the Whimsey stories)
• Evil Under the Sun
• The Murder of Roger Ackryod (This one was way evil)
• A Murder in Three Acts
• The Pinhole Egg  (Reread. I love Diana Wynne Jones)
• To say Nothing of the Dog (Full of literary allusions, especially to 1930’s detective fiction. It was fun to compare its concept of history to, say, Dr. Who’s)
• The Dragon Variation (omnibus of three books set in the Liaden universe, 958 pages)
• The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Read out-loud to number Six)
• Xenopath ( The second in a series, but Theo had me skip the first book. 403 Pages)
• Thomas Zahn’s Thrawn trilogy (Also reread. A Star Wars series)
• The King Maker, King Breaker series ( two books, 1000 pages)