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The Carousel Returns: Paul reads at least 250 books in 2019 probably
Welcome back! Best of luck with your masters degree and also your reading in 2019!
Thank you Rachael! Best of luck to you in 2019 too :)The Master's isn't going too bad right now in fairness - it's three years of three sections and two modules each, which I think is the price to pay for not needing to do a dissertation or go to actual lectures. Had the exams for the first section just at the start of the week, and they went basically fine, maybe not as good as I'd like but still basically fine. I was gonna say I remember hearing from other people who've done the course that the next section is harder, but I forgot what they actually said, so I guess I'll just have to look up what they did say when I see it again and, uh, hope they didn't say that ;D
So it turns out that real life didn't affect my reading but it definitely affected my posting, haha :'D I promise I'll start updating this thread soon though, even if I have to do three books per day while I'm at work or something. No reviews unfortunately - time is pressing, my memory is porous, and I'd rather write nothing than write something I'm not proud of.Reckon I'll bring back that "Why did I read this?" section from ages back, put more flesh on its bones. I always liked doing that. Might also add a pithy summary next to my ratings as well, a "should you read this?" answering something or other. You'll see what I mean when I get there basically. :)
Book #1
Fullmetal Alchemist, Volume 1, written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa
192 pages
Read 31st December 2018 to 1st January 2019
Why I read it: Sometime in the hazy mists of early 2014 when I first started properly going on the Internet I watched Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and loved the stuffing out of it. It might be that the manga being easily available in shops here motivated me, I'm not sure, but either way I bought up the first nine volumes, read them in short order sometime in 2015, and left it sit for a long time because I just couldn't find it anymore. Thankfully I was able to find all the rest of the volumes in Dublin without a problem and by the end of the year I had them bought with a plan of reading one volume every two weeks or so in 2019. This was me starting.
Rating: **** - In a sense it's too early for me to say anything because we're only 4 chapters out of 108 and I've got jumbled memories of the entire arc and sweep in my head, but on the evidence so far? Definitely give it a look see I'd say.
Book #2
How Long 'til Black Future Month?, by N.K. Jemisin
432 pages
Read 29th December 2018 to 3rd January 2019
Why I read it: I've unfortunately only read The Inheritance Trilogy before this, but I'm quite a fan of N.K. Jemisin as a result, and when I heard she had a short-story collection out last year I knew I wasn't going to let too much time go by before I read it. Even if there didn't end up being anything in there that would be eligible for the Hugo Award.
Rating: **** - Do read this. I would probably still read some of her novels first, but do read this.
Book #3
Decalog, edited by Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker
256 pages
Read 1st to 4th January 2019
Why I read it: I've developed a yen to read as many Doctor Who books as I can since the start of 2019, no matter how long it takes, and this is what I decided to start with.
Rating: *** - Nice and occasionally triumphant, but not very necessary.
Book #4
"Hand Me Downs", by Maria Haskins
28 pages
Read 4th January 2019
Why I read it: I started following GigaNotoSaurus last year to see if it would be suitable for my Best Semiprozine ballot, and was overall impressed enough that I said I would keep doing so. This is their story for January 2019.
Rating: **** - I would recommend this, it's very nice.
Book #5
Miracleman Book One: A Dream of Flying, written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Garry Leach and Alan Davis
176 pages
Read 2nd to 5th January 2019
Why I read it: Marvel had a giant Amazon sale at one point, so I picked up A Dream of Flying on the back of some recommendations at a forum I lurk at, and the sense that I should read more Alan Moore someday that I'd had since sometime after I read Watchmen probably. I read it now because it came up very early on the randomised list I had set up at the time.
Rating: **** - I liked it quite a lot, but I now have this nagging sense that most of what it does has been done and done better by other comics came after it. So while it's quite good, I'm hard pressed to say that it should be read by someone who isn't an Alan Moore fan / diehard / completionist, or someone interested in that particular period of comics and the wider history.
Book #6
The Rapture, by Joseph Lidster
1 hour 47 minutes = 107 pages
Listened to 3rd to 6th January 2019
Why I listened to it: Big Finish put up the first 50 Monthly Range audios for sale at 99p each at one point, so I unrepentantly bought them all and started listening to them once a week or so from mid-March on.
Rating: **** - Ignore the average rating. It's very good and fresh and so much not the kind of thing I would expect from Big Finish, and honestly kind of all the better for it. Absolutely check it out. You might not even have to pay for it if it's still on Spotify!
Book #7
The Breath of the Sun, by Isaac R. Fellman
319 pages
Read 4th to 7th January 2019
Why I read it: I picked this up on the back of an absolutely glowing review from Abigail Nussbaum over at Strange Horizons and read it in the hope that Fellman would be a good fit on my John W. Campbell ballot. Not only will she probably make it there, I can see The Breath of the Sun going on my Best Novel ballot as well.
Rating: **** - Doesn't quite succeed at everything it's going for, or maybe it's that I didn't quite click with as much of its aesthetic as it and I would like, but it more or less lives up to the promise of that review. One of the finest and most distinctive fantasy novels I've read in quite a while, and an absolute must-read.
Book #8
Binti: The Night Masquerade, by Nnedi Okorafor
205 pages
Read 8th to 9th January 2019
Why I read it: I wanted to see if the final Binti novella could go on my Hugo ballot.
Rating: **** - Does some very odd things and as a result I'm not entirely sure that the book... works, but at the same time the things it does are so fascinating I'm willing to forgive it of a lot. So I'd say only read it if Binti: Home didn't put you off too much, but definitely do read Binti.
Book #9
Decalog 2: Lost Property, edited by Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker
256 pages
Read 5th to 9th January 2019
Why I read it: Still reading the Doctor Who Decalogs, though tbf there were only ever three of them.
Rating: *** - Meh. tbh.
Book #10
Die #2, written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Stephanie Hans
32 pages
Read 10th January 2019
Why I read it: I hang out with a bunch of people online, some of who are pretty big Kieron Gillen fans, and while I didn't exactly have the greatest time with The Wicked and the Divine there was enough excitement being whipped up around Die that I figured I would read it, and what's more, subscribe to a comic month-by-month for pretty much the first time ever.
Rating: **** - Early days yet of course, and while I've gotten better at doing this due to experience I'm not sure I actually have the rhythms of reading panels down, but this looks like it's going to go to some very interesting places indeed. Definitely look into it, or look out for it, depending on your tolerance for single issues vs trades. Although in this cruel world and society, and I guess either way, pre-ordering is apparently very important for making sure that writers and illustrators keep getting to do the projects they're interested in doing. So that might be good to keep in mid as well.
Book #11
"The Bleeding and the Bloodless", by Ruth Nestvold
32 pages
Read 10th January 2019
Why I read it: I liked reading GigaNotoSaurus so much last year that I decided to go back to the very beginning of their archives. As they only ever do one story a month this isn't necessarily as bad as it might appear.
Rating: *** - Hmmm. It does some interesting things, and I can see why Ann Leckie chose it, but ultimately I wouldn't suggest seeking it out.
Book #12
Doctor Who: The Sandman, by Simon A. Forward
1 hour, 56 minutes = 116 pages
Listened to 7th to 11th January 2019
Why I listened to it: Continuing to listen to the first 50 Big Finish Monthly Range releases.
Rating: *** - Bleh.
Book #13
Fullmetal Alchemist: Volume 2, written and illustrated by Hiromu Arakawa
192 pages
Read 11th to 13th January 2019
Why I read it: Still reading Fullmetal Alchemist this year.
Rating: *** - It's doing and continuing a number of interesting things, but also stumbles in ways the first volume didn't quite, and ways I don't remember the show doing either. I'm still interested in pitting my memories against what actually happens next, but who knows what I'd think if I hadn't seen the show.
Book #14
The Fated Sky, by Mary Robinette Kowal
384 pages
Read 10th to 13th January 2019
Why I read it: I really like The Calculating Stars when I read it last year, and wanted to get around to the sequel too but just wasn't able to before the world turned. I corrected that fairly quickly though.
Rating: **** - There's a lot to admire about this book, the writing's technically generally strong, and overall I do like it quite a lot, but I also started having some concerns with the Big Project of the series thanks to this book, which ended up being nicely clarified by this Strange Horizons (yes, them again) review: http://strangehorizons.com/non-fictio... As a result I'm not sure if I should really recommend The Fated Sky or not, and all I guess I can say is that you should probably still read The Calculating Stars at least, and I don't plan on reading any more of the followups after this.
Book #15
Decalog 3: Consequences, edited by Andy Lane and Justin Richards
308 pages
Read 11th to 14th January 2019
Why I read it: Finishing up with the Virgin Decalogs before I move onto the BBC Short Trips.
Rating: *** - Easily the most interesting Doctor Who Decalog, forming neat connections between stories and seeming to set up a solid ethical critique of the character himself. Still not quite essential however, although "Continuity Errors" was definitely worth the wait.
Book #16
Alias: Volume 1, written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by David W. Mack, Michael Gaydos, and Bill Sinkiewicz
216 pages
Read 7th to 15th January 2019
Why I read it: I bought all four volumes of Alias off the back of really liking the first season of Jessica Jones when Marvel had a massive Amazon Kindle sale at one point. I read it now because one of the volumes ended up near the top of the iteration of the randomiser I had going on at the time.
Rating: **** - Not that reminiscent of the show, but still very strong nonetheless. Makes really interesting use of the page and irregular panel formats, and while Marvel going political makes for a slightly frustrating and awkward endeavour, I'm enough of a fan to find these sideways half-in half-out observations of The World compelling. Worth a look.
Book #17
Uncanny Magazine Issue 26: January/February 2019, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas
163 pages
Read 14th to 16th January 2019
Why I read it: I read all of Uncanny's 2018 editions to see whether they would fit on my Best Semiprozine ballot, and they generally do. As a result of that I subscribed for this year and also backed their Kickstarter for Year Five, which means I got this issue twice.
Rating: **** - One of the best issues they've done in a while I'd say. Definitely give it a look see.
Book #18
Before Mars, by Emma Newman
352 pages
Read 15th to 17th January 2019
Why I read it: I read this on the back of After Atlas being shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award two years ago, and also to see if it might fit my Best Novel ballot. Was thinking about avoiding it but I saw a tweet from Newman assuring it was standalone, so I figured why not.
Rating: *** - This book is very odd. Part of this is admittedly because I haven't read the first two - despite Before Mars being billed as standalone it's very clearly not. Newman has a lot of thought-provoking and disquieting things to say about postnatal depression, motherhood, and the failures of society, but can't quite pull everything together in this book into a coherent whole, and the paranoia conspiracy plot doesn't work nearly as well, despite very solid characters on the whole. The end of the book also promptly collapses in a haze of exposition, poorly-integrated metaplot, and skipped-over resolution. Ultimately I would read it if you reckon story trumps plot (which is perfectly reasonable, but in this case the plot didn't quite work well enough for me to like it) or if you've read Planetfall and After Atlas, but other than that I'd say you're all right.
Welcome back Paul! Good luck with your goal :)
Thank you Winter! I'm not entirely sure yet how "back" I am, but it's definitely good to be more around here again. And best of luck with your goal too! Read anything good lately? :)
Thank you :) It's been a mixed bag. I have been trying to finish a few I started last year. I'm re-reading The Bear and the Nightingale now and it is very good. I also liked Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire a lot. I'm in mood for sci fi though so I will probably read a bit of that in February. And hopefully finish more started books xD
Oh nice! I remember I thought it was very good too, I had The Winter and the Witch preordered as well but not sure when I'll get to it yet. I'm looking forward to it, not as much as I was but still looking forward to it. And yes, Down Among the Sticks and Bones is great, it's easily my favourite of the whole series so far. That said I'm absolutely positive I'd like the next one more if I read it again, it's definitely at least quite good.That all sounds like a great plan honestly, hope it all works out and things are less mixed from here :)
Book #19
Doctor Who: The Church and the Crown, by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright
1 hour, 43 minutes = 103 pages
Listened to 15th to 18th January 2019
Why I listened to it: Continuing to listen to the first 50 Big Finish Monthly Range releases.
Rating: *** - Quite good. Doesn't turn out as good as I would necessarily like, but still a perfectly fine and enjoyable time.
Book #20
"The Winged City", by Yoon Ha Lee
25 pages
Read 18th January 2019
Why I read it: It was the GigaNotoSaurus story for December 2010.
Rating: *** - I like a lot of its atmosphere and a number of the things it does, but in the end I don't believe it manages to pull it all together and get it to cohere. I'd still recommend reading it though, as it is quite short.
Book #21
"Work, with Occasional Molemen", by Jeremiah Tolbert
37 pages
Read 18th January 2019
Why I read it: It was the GigaNotoSaurus story for January 2011.
Rating: **** - Offbeat and occasionally scatterbrained, but there's also a really appealing vibe to it that made reading it definitely worth it. I'd recommend seeking it out.
Book #22
Black Hammer #1, written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Dean Ormston and Dave Stewart
32 pages
Read 19th January 2019
Why I read it: It was included in an Image Comics Humble Bundle I got sometime back.
Rating: *** - Maybe? I can see the appeal, and it is admittedly pretty decent. All I know is that I read this issue, more or less liked it, but don't see myself going back to read the rest of Volume 1 anytime soon.
Book #23
Alias: Volume 2, written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by David W. Mack and Michael Gaydos
128 pages
Read 16th to 20th January 2019
Why I read it: Continuing on with Alias.
Rating: *** - Doesn't work as well as Volume 1 unfortunately. It has some solid themes and carries on pretty well from the vibe that Volume 1 had, but this ends up with Bendis trading in some wonky metaphors that sometimes work against the intended effect. Or at least work to muddy it in what is honestly an endearing "Oh, Marvel!" sense. Still like it enough to continue on with the rest of the volumes though.
Book #24
Doctor Who: Short Trips, edited by Stephen Cole
288 pages
Read 17th to 20th January 2019
Why I read it: Still reading all the Doctor Who books.
Rating: *** - As seemingly always, quite decent but generally disposable.
Book #25
Everything Under, by Daisy Johnson
277 pages
Read 19th to 22nd January 2019
Why I read it: I've been paying attention to this book in some sense ever since it was longlisted for last year's Man Booker Prize. And then it was shortlisted. And then Abigail Nussbaum made it sound very interesting and picked it as an honourable mention in her Books of the Year roundup. Then when it got massively reduced on Kindle for a day I decided to grab it and drink in that slipstreaminess.
Rating: *** - Hmmm. As seeming always I like a ton of what it's doing, and at times it's quite frankly brilliant. It does just peter out at the end though, and not in a way that seems particularly satisfying. Especially when it also hasn't managed to bind all its strands into a coherent whole like I figured it was doing; while I don't mind there being different kinds of logic behind narrative decisions it still comes across as though one or two steps were skipped. I'm still glad I read it though, and Johnson is absolutely an author to watch for the future. You should read it, if only to see what you'd make of it yourself.
Book #26
"The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir", by Karin Tidbeck
32 pages
Read 22nd January 2019
Why I read it: It was a newly released short story on Tor.com, and I had so much fun reading all of them last year that I decided I'd keep going.
Rating: *** - Its approach to starships is fascinating and the fundamentals are solid, but ultimately there's this very unusual mix of aesthetics and things that are clearly pointing towards thematic sense that never really comes together. It's fine, if a little muted and artless, but I wouldn't really recommend it.
Book #27
"Beyond the El", by John Chu
32 pages
Read 22nd January 2019
Why I read it: It was a new short story on Tor.com
Rating: **** - Now this, this I like. An unusual and compelling fusion of magical cooking, same-sex relationships and longing, and lingering familial wounds. Definitely do read this even if you don't read the Tidbeck.
Book #28
Monstress #19, written by Marjorie M. Liu and illustrated by Sana Takeda
28 pages
Read 24th January 2019
Why I read it: It's Monstress.
Rating: *** - Monstress is brilliant, but this isn't quite. It's got some stirring speeches and gestures at what could be interesting new directions and intrigue, though right now it's hard to tell. The problem is right now this issue feels a lot like scene-setting that wouldn't be so bad in the trade, but sticks out when you don't get to read the next issue for another month and read Volume Three a month ago. I also wasn't really expecting this compression of violence, and I'm not sure Takeda's art is as straightforwardly sparkling as it usually is. That said though, I'm more than willing to take this as an aberration and see what the rest of Volume 4 does.
Book #29
Summerland, by Hannu Rajaniemi
320 pages
Read 23rd to 25th January 2019
Why I read it: Elizabeth Sandifer recommended it, and I was so down for the sort of [book] that does things like “and then the Russians merged all of their dead into a giant gestalt supercomputer headed by Lenin to create an all-powerful and godlike collective.” That’s not even what the book’s about. That’s the sort of thing it can blow on a side plot.
Rating: **** - There is a kind of brisk efficient regimental chilliness that pervades this book which sometimes threw me off (not that that's an inappropriate register to take), but Rajaniemi has a lot of fun generating seemingly endless consequences of the general conceit, tying that to real-world concerns in a not-overly-didactic fashion, and on top of that layering on a pretty spiffy spy plot. The book does just kind of peter out at the end, but overall it's strong enough that I'm more than happy to recommend it.
Paul wrote: "Summerland, by Hannu Raniajemi"I like your exotic scramble of Hannu Rajaniemi's last name... but it is Rajaniemi. Raja is border and niemi is peninsula. ;-)
My apologies, thank you Ketutar. Fixing it now :)
Book #30
Doctor Who: Bang-Bang-a-Boom!, by Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman
2 hours, 23 minutes = 143 pages
Listened to 22nd to 25th January 2019
Why I listened to it: Continuing to listen to the first 50 Big Finish Monthly Range releases.
Rating: *** - See, Doctor Who meets Eurovision should be catnip, but this... isn't. To be fair, it's mostly because this is actually Doctor Who meets Star Trek: Deep Space Nine meets Agatha Christie, then meets Eurovision. I want to be careful about differentiating things I don't like from things that aren't good, but honestly? I wouldn't recommend this, even if it's quite decent at what it does. Just read Catherynne Valente's Space Opera instead.
Book #31
The Poems of Sulpicia, by Sulpicia
16 pages
Read 25th January 2019
Why I read it: Someone I follow on Goodreads through finding her on Twitter raved about this one day so I thought I'd check it out right there and then.
Rating: **** - Sharp and fresh and interesting, even after all these years. Definitely check it out.
Book #32
Doctor Who: More Short Trips, edited by Stephen Cole
288 pages
Read 21st to 27th January 2019
Why I read it: Still reading all the Doctor Who books.
Rating: **** - Honestly this one was really very good? I dunno, it seemed to be a step up compared with the rest of the Doctor Who short story anthologies I've read. The stories were overall more interesting and distinctive. So while it's a weird place to start, I'd say it'd be worth checking this one out at least.
Book #33
Alias: Volume 3, written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Michael Gaydos and David W. Mack
160 pages
Read 21st to 28th January 2019
Why I read it: Continuing on with Alias.
Rating: **** - Now this is more like it. After a very strange held back first issue told entirely through images and a screenplay kind of format, Alias launches right back into what it does best. Definitely recommended.
Book #34
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, by Gail Honeyman
390 pages
Read 28th to 31st January 2019
Why I read it: My sister bought the paperback and lent it to me (unless she borrowed it off someone else and lent it to me, in which case oops because now it's kind of dirty because I dropped it on the Luas at one point), and I thought I'd read it because I'd heard some interesting things about it.
Rating: **** - A genuine sensation. It sometimes tips a little awkwardly into melodrama and the occasional heavy hints, and the ending blatantly doesn't work, but even despite that (I'm also not sure about The Big Twist) this is still very strong. I've seen it compared to The Rosie Project, and honestly? It tracks, and yet while there's arguably no scene as purely pleasurable as Graham bartending at a gold club, Eleanor Oliphant has a much greater generosity of spirit. Honeyman uses Eleanor to deliver wry observations on the world, but you rarely get the sense that she doesn't love the world, and you never get the sense that she doesn't love her characters. And in Eleanor she delivers a striking, compelling, idiosyncratic character who is nonetheless perfectly explainable by her circumstances and her origins. This book is significantly stranger and more unsettling than I expected, but not always, and is usually not the worst for it. Definitely worth reading.
Book #35
Doctor Who: Jubilee, by Robert Shearman
2 hours, 23 minutes = 143 pages
Listened to 29th January to 1st February 2019
Why I listened to it: Continuing to listen to the first 50 Big Finish Monthly Range releases.
Rating: **** - I'm not quite as big a fan of it as its reputation demands, partly because I think Part 4 gets a little wobbly and partly because I may have gotten a little inured to what Robert Shearman does, but I still liked this a heck of a lot. It's got striking performances and it's saying a ton of fascinating and troubling things about Britain and the history of Doctor Who. Quite frankly it really does blow "Dalek" out of the water, and is as much a listen as anything else Shearman has done, which is to say massively.
Book #36
Alias: Volume 4, written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Michael Gaydos and David W. Mack
160 pages
Read 29th January to 4th February 2019
Why I read it: Continuing on with Alias.
Rating: **** - Very interesting, and I'm not entirely sure it works. Though this could be subverted expectations at work admittedly. The secret origin and general flashbacks are brilliant, but Killgrave... well Killgrave in the present is pathetic (albeit with a fascinating inexplicable awareness of the 4th wall), and his being pathetic is ultimately fitting, but to be a stickler about it it almost works... too well? I think it also doesn't help that this isn't actually the end for Jessica and she goes on to be in The Pulse, which I'm not sure I'll read. Still though, this was worth reading, even if I'm not sure it's worth recommending, and I think S1 of the Netflix show genuinely eclipses it, despite its occasional... eccentricities.
Book #37
"His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light" by Mimi Mondal
32 pages
Read 4th February 2019
Why I read it: It was a new Tor.com short story.
Rating: *** - Wasn't really a fan of this one, and I'm not sure why. There was something very thin and overly doom-laden about it. Apparently another story Mondal write that was published in Strange Horizons quite a while back has the main character's mother in it, and honestly that's much better than this one. Go read that one instead I reckon.
http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/th...
Book #38
Strange the Dreamer, by Laini Taylor
545 pages
Read 1st to 6th February 2019
Why I read it: I'd heard wonderful things about it but figured it could wait for when I'd finished the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, even though the sequel Muse of Nightmares came out last year. When it was announced as the Group Read for February though, it felt like destiny.
Rating: **** - Lovely, absolutely lovely. Strange and unusual in ways I wasn't expecting and loved to see, and very very resonant with themes and ideas. Managed to skirt some awkward implications not just through sheer open-heartedness I guess, but by centring a range of perspectives. Definitely worth the punt I took on it.
Book #39
Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor, Vol. 1: Revolutions of Terror, written by Nick Abadzis, and illustrated by Elena Casagrande, Alice X. Zhang, and Arianna Florean
131 pages
Read 5th to 6th February 2019
Why I read it: It came with a Doctor Who Comics Humble Bundle.
Rating: *** - Quite nice, but nothing all that special. Really liking Gabby Gonzalez though.
Book #40
Die #3, written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Stephanie Hans
30 pages
Read 7th February 2019
Why I read it: It's Die.
Rating: **** - Die unexpectedly pivots into a metaphorical take on the birth of the 20th century's high fantasy boom, and it makes for a very strong outing indeed. Definitely still a series to follow.
2025 Reading Challenge
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My goal for next year is at least 101 books, it's one I expect to handily smash but I just want to keep it small and attainable for the time being and I will increase it significantly whenever I feel I'm getting close. I also plan on increasing it by one every time I read something tiny, which I feel like will happen pretty often! As a way of keeping a pilot flame underneath me I guess. ;)
This thread is going to be a lot more barebones than the ones I used to make I think. Or if they're not it'll be the kind of thread I can only reasonably update on weekends. I started a Master's degree this year that thankfully hasn't really impacted my reading time that much, but is and probably will have an effect on the amount of time that I can devote to doing things like updating threads and posting progress in different challenges. So this might end up being a very straightforward thread when it all concludes, I'm not entirely sure.
But they're definitely still be books! :D
Should also link my corner: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Edit: Increased my overall goal to 250 (for now) and moved the thread into the appropriate folder.