So, this past year I read forty-six books, which is far from my best, but better than last year. I'm still not managing to read as many books by women, people of colour or LGBT+ people as I'd like - I'm scuppered by already having bookshelves too full before I can conscionably buy more, even as much as I'd like to in order to offset my own reading biases. In any case, let's get down to an overview of some of what I read in the past year...
- Literally all of Dan Abnett's Inquisitor novels that exist so far - see Eisenhorn 1/2/3/4, Ravenor 1/2/3 and Bequin 1/2
- Dan Abnett's original sci-fi war story - Embedded
- Dan Abnett's original fantasy thriller - Triumff
- Dan Abnett's [un]original dinosaur drama - Extinction Event
- Yeh I've been re-reading a lot of Dan Abnett this year, get over it
- Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts series - where I got up to book five and then my heart said "nope" and I put it on hold for the foreseeable future
- Don't worry that's it for Dan Abnett in this year's list
- The first two instalments of the maddest best fantasy trilogy I've ever read - Brian Catling's The Vorrh and The Erstwhile
- An underwhelming biography of the most important man ever to live
- Some reasonably interesting insights into Daniel the prophet's relevance to modernity
- Corrie ten Boom's absolutely bonkers prayer journey
- Four galleries worth of The Far Side, alongside its prehistory
- Che Guevara's manual on Guerrilla Warfare
- A grotesquely bad culture-war-christian manifesto - ech
- George Orwell's positively-intentioned but thoroughly out-of-date guide on spotting political fakespeak
- Sarah Bessey's incredibly edifying Jesus Feminist
- Richard Rohr's magnificent guide on how to join The Divine Dance
- And then Jürgen Moltmann's far more intellectual dive into the Trinity
- A fun graphic way of interpreting biblical data - see here
- Richard Keyes's ruminations on what church should be: Chameleon or Tribe?
- Pope Francis telling Catholics to get their environmental shit together
- Three of Plato's most significant historic texts ever - probably
- That great moment where Ludwig Wittgenstein "solved philosophy" but nobody understood him so every other philosopher had to keep going anyway
- Sheffield's absolute boss-man ex-mayor Magid Magid on The Art of Disruption
- My favourite of the three Roald Dahl novellas I read over Christmas - Matilda
So - that's it from me for this past year, and I'll be sure to keep reading random stuff and updating this blog as often as I can be arsed so there's some record of all the random stuff I'm reading... that's why I'm doing this, right?
Peace & love
Isaac Stovell
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