Thoughts on Spending part of Summer Reading Star Trek Books to Compensate for (what I feel) is a lousy Schedule…
A few months ago I wrote a blog about time Management and the next few posts are tangentially related to that. https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...
As my long-winded title suggests, I found a way to make lemonade out of whatever and turn a negative into a positive.
Star Trek.
Been a fan since I was a kid, in fact it was the reason I first started drinking coffee, so I could stay up late and catch the reruns at midnight as it ran back when I was 12 and living in my childhood home in Pittsfield Massachusetts…
I am currently knee deep in “Federation” by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens having completed 3 prior.
Some thoughts…
One…despite impressions to the contrary, I’m not a particularly fast reader. That is, I probably read much more than the average individual, but in a class of readers for whom reading is life, I am merely a plodder, a dilettante, an interloper into a world of smartness and literary appreciation that others dwell in and live in full time. I read when I can, I read during breaks, I read between innings of the Orioles games, I read maybe a little at home. But as for the focused effort it would have taken to plough through 10 books in 8 weeks…I just don’t have it. I may clear 5 if I hurry through the next two.
Two…there is definitely a type of ST book I enjoy. I seem to gravitate to the more expansive efforts based on multiple episodes of the series. For example, the Rise of Khan reintroduced us to the Gary Seven and the Space Seed episodes and ran with these characters and interspersed it with real earth history. I find that so much more enjoyable than some of the more straightforward Trek adventures, ones from the 80’s or ones written before Next Generation was a thing. I put down two of these books because I couldn’t get into them, then I devoured the Captain Kirk “autobiography” and the Federation book.
Three. William Shatner is an International Treasure and I will fight you if you say otherwise.
Four…Genre fiction has its’ own rewards. It’s great to see episodes called back and whole stories based around small but important lines of dialogue…it is a reward for having been a fan for the last 30 years…
Five…Star Trek is at its best when it is just slightly tongue in cheek. Star Trek 4 was about whales, for chrissake…and now it stands as the Third highest grossing trek Movie of all time…that’s my best example, I’ll leave it at that…
For the record: I read The Autobiography of Captain Kirk (David A. Goodman) the Eugenics Wars (Greg Cox) and The Ashes of Eden (William Shatner) and I am about to finish the terrific Federation (Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens).
Anyway, I’m off that bad schedule now so the only question is: should I finish the rest of these books? Or save it for the next downturn in scheduled time?
Next: the NEO 2 and how it has helped with my loss of time.
As my long-winded title suggests, I found a way to make lemonade out of whatever and turn a negative into a positive.
Star Trek.
Been a fan since I was a kid, in fact it was the reason I first started drinking coffee, so I could stay up late and catch the reruns at midnight as it ran back when I was 12 and living in my childhood home in Pittsfield Massachusetts…
I am currently knee deep in “Federation” by Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens having completed 3 prior.
Some thoughts…
One…despite impressions to the contrary, I’m not a particularly fast reader. That is, I probably read much more than the average individual, but in a class of readers for whom reading is life, I am merely a plodder, a dilettante, an interloper into a world of smartness and literary appreciation that others dwell in and live in full time. I read when I can, I read during breaks, I read between innings of the Orioles games, I read maybe a little at home. But as for the focused effort it would have taken to plough through 10 books in 8 weeks…I just don’t have it. I may clear 5 if I hurry through the next two.
Two…there is definitely a type of ST book I enjoy. I seem to gravitate to the more expansive efforts based on multiple episodes of the series. For example, the Rise of Khan reintroduced us to the Gary Seven and the Space Seed episodes and ran with these characters and interspersed it with real earth history. I find that so much more enjoyable than some of the more straightforward Trek adventures, ones from the 80’s or ones written before Next Generation was a thing. I put down two of these books because I couldn’t get into them, then I devoured the Captain Kirk “autobiography” and the Federation book.
Three. William Shatner is an International Treasure and I will fight you if you say otherwise.
Four…Genre fiction has its’ own rewards. It’s great to see episodes called back and whole stories based around small but important lines of dialogue…it is a reward for having been a fan for the last 30 years…
Five…Star Trek is at its best when it is just slightly tongue in cheek. Star Trek 4 was about whales, for chrissake…and now it stands as the Third highest grossing trek Movie of all time…that’s my best example, I’ll leave it at that…
For the record: I read The Autobiography of Captain Kirk (David A. Goodman) the Eugenics Wars (Greg Cox) and The Ashes of Eden (William Shatner) and I am about to finish the terrific Federation (Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens).
Anyway, I’m off that bad schedule now so the only question is: should I finish the rest of these books? Or save it for the next downturn in scheduled time?
Next: the NEO 2 and how it has helped with my loss of time.
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