Hereticus

This book is the third in Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn series - is this a bit self-indulgent? I mean, I already read this whole trilogy only a couple of years ago and then I'd marked the whole trilogy as one book, because it's in one volume. Ech, if I can justify splitting Lord of the Rings into seven, I can split this into three.

Malleus

This book is the second instalment in Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy - as you can probably tell from this flurry of posts, I'm rereading all of his books because last year gave me a real taste for rereading stuff I like.

Xenos

This book is the first in Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy - which I already read quite recently, so I'll not say anything about it here. Just wanted to note it to keep my numbers up.

2021 overview

This past year I read thirty-nine books - my weakest year since 2016, for which I have no real excuses. Especially since quite a lot of what I was reading this year was essentially re-reading of stuff I've read before. Anyway, let's get into a breakdown of some of the good (and otherwise) shit I got my way through.

• Been reading it my whole life but finally did it cover-to-cover - the Bible
• the whole Darren Shan vampire saga
• the whole Harry Potter series
• Numerous Tolkien works including The Hobbit, Tales from the Perilous Realm, and the Lord of the Rings
• Two lovely little Philip Larkin books - High Windows and Whitsun Weddings
• A classic that shaped our modern view of Satan - Paradise Lost
• E. F. Schumacher's philosophical magnum opus - A Guide for the Perplexed
• Some of the best and weirdest mystical poetry ever - William Blake
• Possibly one of my favourite religious texts ever - Chuang Tzu
• Some very edifying sermons about biblical wisdom - Charles Spurgeon on Proverbs
• A delicate, harrowing novel about love, loss & hate - Rebecca
• Finally a gutsy, explosive novel about capitalistic hubris - Jurassic Park

That's it from me for now - watch this space to see what I manage to read in 2022. Hopefully more stuff, especially more from a diversity of authors, particularly ones I've not read before.

Peace & love

Isaac Stovell