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My current status shows I'm at 42%. Cool.
Status update on "text" book Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction 75%.If I were reading a "normal" book I would be updating this thread more often.
Congrats Captain! I thought that looked pretty interesting but probably too heavy for me to jump into.
Brenda wrote: "Congrats Captain! I thought that looked pretty interesting but probably too heavy for me to jump into."Thanks,
If you have a basic understanding of physics and algebra it should not be too difficult to get through. Since I have very little algebra and almost no physics it was a bit of a challenge and a minor struggle for me as I thought it would be. I did, however, have two big motivational factors the first was my strong interest in Science Fiction and curiosity about how much of it is possible (or not). The other factor is more personal as I went to high school with the author and hung around him in a small circle of friends. For a quiet studious teen (in the top 10 of the gradutating class) he was surprisingly vicious while playing AD&D (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons) especially when the Dungeon Master and the other strategy games our group played.
Yesterday? Started reading Time Out of Mind, yeah he's the French guy who wrote Planet of the Apes anyway this is a collection of science fiction themed short stories. I am currently at 12% page 35. The first story was a complicated time-travel story. So far so good.
Finished reading my squirrel book To Heaven And Back and did a review for it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...?
Just finished A World Out of Time. Very good mid 1970s Larry Niven Sci-Fi. Next up is the movie novel of Alien by Alan Dean FosterThe Niven book does not count toward the mini-challenge of TBR stack because I got it in February of this year. Alien will be able to go toward that mini challenge.
Widget is now 4/15 books read. Currently "on track"
Finished Alien by Alan Dean FosterIt counts toward the TBR stack mini-challenge for this year and is book 5/15 for this year's personal challenge.
Starting Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker by George Lucas I've had this book for ages since around the time it came out (Feb 1978 edition) I read most of it during Junior High and did a book report on it. I don't think I actually finished the dang thing. Years ago I had bent/folded the front cover accidentally so it has a huge diagonal crease across the front of the cover that acts like the spine. So it will also be my next book for the TBR backup challenge.
Just finished Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker.
This counts toward the TBR backup challenge.Up next will be: Brave New World
That makes 6/15 40% 1 book ahead (as of now, will probably drop back down to On Track or behind)
Finished Brave New World
Book number 7/15 for yearly challenge and book #5 for TBR backup challenge. Clears level one for that mini-challenge.
Started reading a book I had marked as having read back in the 1990s. Not sure if that is correct. If I did I kept the book in immaculate condition with no trace of spine creases from previous reads, only some wear on edges from standard shelfware. The book is surprisingly not sci-fi (which I prefer and have been reading a lot of lately) but a murder mystery by Margery Allingham a contemporary of Agatha Christie. Allingham is most famous for her series of Albert Campion mysteries that in the early 1990s the BBC made into a television series starring Peter Davison ("Doctor Who" and "All Creatures Great and Small") as Mr. Campion. It is that television series shown on PBS stations at the time here in the US, that got me interested in reading Allingham's books. This book is NOT an Albert Campion mystery. It is actually two separate mysteries in one book.No Love Lost
Finished book #8 for the year.No Love Lost
Nice. Two short mysteries the first just sort of some suspense and mystery not quite a "murder" mystery more of an attempted murder and the second story a more classic murder mystery.
Just finished reading The Man From U.N.C.L.E. #10 The Assassination Affair by J. Hunter Holly
That gets me "on track" for now with 9/15 books on my personal challenge 60% through. This read qualifies for a couple of the mini-challenges I'm doing.
What is your challenge? Can't seem to find details. I too am interested in the genre you are reading.
Lynnette wrote: "What is your challenge? Can't seem to find details. I too am interested in the genre you are reading."Personal Challenge for 2016 is 15 books during course of year.
Then I'm doing the Mini Challenges from Reading Challenge group:
Buyers Remorse: The TBR Challenge 2016: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Basically read as many books from your "To Be Read" pile that you have owned since before 01 January 2016
and the "Feather Weight Challenge (Jun - December 2016)
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Books read between June and December that are less than 280 pages long.
Started reading: Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It Lynne M. Thomas
Got this book from Ebay last year mid July. I had heard about it maybe a year before I think from here on Goodreads, wasn't sure if it was just an ebook or had physical copies at first. Glad there is a physical edition as I don't do ebooks. (yet?) It is a series of short essays about the fandom of Doctor Who, primarily written by women discussing the female fandom of the show. and the show in general.
Just finished Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of Doctor Who by the Women Who Love It My challenge widget is now 10/15 67% "On Track"
Bummer. Stalled at the last part of the year. I'm just going to let everything hanging the way it is/was since the last update.
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Wizards, Aliens, and Starships: Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction by Charles L. Adler - I am currently on page 114 = 30% done.
Oh I don't think I'll get as many read as last year so I lowered my expectations down to only 15 books this year. If things start looking up for me I'll raise the glass or the bar a little. Not holding my breath on it. Tried it one year almost passed out hehehe.
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OK I saw this one someone else's Personal Challenge page. They showed all the covers of all the books they had read that year. I'm not sure how I'm going to format this. Anyway here goes:
10/15
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