October List

So this presetting the random order, is a fun twist. Problematically, I'm still not getting through books very fast. I have come to realize that I need to have my non-fiction and my fiction on separate lists. As much as I really do like non fiction, they are always slow reads and I do best if I intersperse chapters with fiction. As a general rule, it's good for me to have multiple books going at a time.

In other news: The family has all renewed their library cards. Thomas's school librarian started an inititive. It's a good thing though, it's like guilt free shopping with a time limit. I managed to find all my TBR books for this cycle at the library and a couple of interesting books off of the new book shelves. Obviously these books have a time limit, so I made sure they were in the first 10 books on the list and reassigned the rest of them new numbers. It's a silliness but also a lot of fun. 

1. Poppy by Avi - (Dropped - yet another second book in a series that I haven't read the first of)
2. Navola by Paolo Bacigalupi (Library Book) - 7
3. Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford (professional Reading) - NF 2
4. Those Pink Mountain Nights by Jen Ferguson (Finished 10/9/24)
5. A Market of Dreams and Destiny by Trip Galey (Finished 10/29/2024)
6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (class novel) - 17
7. My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, & Jodi Meadows - 6 
8. YouSpace Series by Tom Holt (Fantasy)
1. Doughnut (Finished 3/5/2024)
2. When It's A Jar (Finished 7/6/2024)
3. The Outsorcerer's Apprentice (Finished 1/15/2024)
4. The Good, the Bad and the Smug - 15
5. An Orc on the Wild Side - 16
9. The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu (Finished 10/18/2024)
10. Spider Gwen, Ghost Spider (Marvel Universe - Graphic Novel) - 12
11. Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor -11
12. A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett - 13
13. The Discworld Graphic Novels by Terry Pratchett - 14 
14. Her Night with the Duke: A Novel by Diana Quincy (Finished 10/20/24)
15. You Sexy Thing by Cat Rambo (New TBR) -10
16. Cover Story by Susan Rigetti (previous TBR) - 19 
17. The Algorithm by Hilke Schellmann - NF 1
18. The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma -8 
19. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein - 18
20. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (Science Fiction) -9

Assigned or otherwise pre-scheduled Reading:

1. Strategic Communications for School Leaders by Vicki Gunther, James McGowan, and Kate Donegan (Grad School)
2. The Principal's Guide to School Budgeting by Richard D. Sorenson & Lloyd M. Goldsmith (Grad School)
3. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan (Thomas Book)