In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 28th Year, Week 14/52

Only one book last week - 12th to 18th November.  Little Myth Marker, one of the Myth Adventures books which I originally read as a teenager.

It's so nice being able to read them all over again.  I didn't actually realise until now that this one was written before I was born!

In Which We Discuss the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

This post has been a long time coming, and I apologise for that.  I read - or rather, listened to - this book between the 11th and 13th of September this year. 

Sports Memorabilia

I first read it around 2010, and I remember liking it.  There's a lot I didn't get though.  I don't think I knew that Tom Gordon is a real person, for instance, and I didn't realise it took place on the Appalachian Trail.



 I'm currently doing a virtual walk of the Appalachian Trail - you just go here and tell it how many miles you've walked, and it tracks how far along you are - so it was pretty interesting to read about it with a little more knowledge.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is fairly short;  I remember it as being 200-300 pages, and the audiobook is only 6 hours long.  That might be one of the reasons I like it; Stephen King makes it worth the journey, but I have a very short attention span.

Here's an update of the list!

- 15/6/13

Carrie - 1974 -  June 15th 2013
'Salem's Lot - 1975 - June 30th 2013
The Shining - 1977 - July 28th 2013
Rage - 1977 - July 31st 2013
Night Shift - 1978 - August 28th 2013
The Stand - 1978 - March 20th 2014
The Long Walk - 1979 - March 23rd 2014
The Dead Zone - 1979 - June 2014
Firestarter - 1980 - August 16th 2014


- 15/6/13 to 17/8/14 - 9

Roadwork - 1981 - 23rd August 2014
Danse Macabre - 1981 - 7th September 2014
- BONUS: Small World (Tabitha King) - 10th September 2014
Cujo - 1981 - 20th September 2014
The Running Man - 1982- 22nd September 2014
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger - 1982 - 30th September 2014
Creepshow - 1982 - 1st October 2014
Different Seasons - 1982  - 24th October 2014

- 17/8/14 to 25/10/14 - 8 (17)

Christine - 1983
Pet Sematary - 1983
Cycle of the Werewolf - 1983
The Talisman - 1984
Thinner - 1984 

- 25/10/14/14 to 14/07/2015 - 5 (22)

Skeleton Crew - 1985
It - 1986
The Eyes of the Dragon - 1987
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three - 1987
Misery - 1987 

- 14/7/15 to 18/10/2015 - 5 (27)

The Tommyknockers - 1987
Nightmares in the Sky  - 1988
The Dark Half - 1989 

- 18/10/2015 to 22/12/2015 - 3 (30)

Four Past Midnight - 1990
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands - 1991 
Needful Things - 1991
Gerald's Game - 1992
Dolores Claiborne - 1992
Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 1993

- 22/12/2015 to 24/4/2016 - 6 (36)
 
Insomnia - 1994
Rose Madder - 1995
The Green Mile - 1996
Desperation - 1996
The Regulators - 1996
Six Stories - 1997
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass - 1997
Dark Tower: Little Sisters of Eluria (Legend) - 1998
Bag of Bones - 1998
Storm of the Century - 1998
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon - 1999
  
- 24/4/2016 to 14/11/16 - 6 (47)
 
Hearts in Atlantis - 1999
Blood and Smoke - 1999

"Riding the Bullet" - 2000  
On Writing - 2000 
Secret Windows - 2000 
The Plant - 2000      
Dreamcatcher - 2001

Black House (with Peter Straub) -2001
Everything's Eventual - 2002
From a Buick 8 - 2002
The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla - 2003  
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah - 2004

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower - 2004
Faithful - 2004
- BONUS: 20th Century Ghosts (Joe Hill) - Jan 2005
- BONUS: Josie and Jack (Kelly Braffet)  - Feb 2005
- BONUS: We're All in This Together (Owen King) - 2005

The Colorado Kid - 2005
Cell - 2006
Lisey's Story - 2006
Blaze - 2007
Duma Key - 2008

Just After Sunset - 2008 
Stephen King Goes to the Movies - 2009
Ur - 2009     
Under the Dome - 2009
Blockade Billy - 2010

Full Dark, No Stars - 2010
Mile 81 - 2011    
11/22/63 - 2011
American Vampire (with Scott Snyder) - 2011
"Throttle" (with Joe Hill) - 2012

The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole - 2012 
A Face in the Crowd (with Stewart O'Nan) - 2012
"In the Tall Grass"  (with Joe Hill) - 2012
"GUNS" - 2013
Ghost Brothers of Darkland County - 2013

Joyland - 2013
The Dark Man: An Illustrated Poem - 2013
Doctor Sleep - 2013
Mr. Mercedes - 2014      
Revival - November 2014

Finders Keepers - 2015
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams - 2015
End of Watch - 2016

Cool, I'm 47 books through!  That's  51% !  I'm more than halfway through!  And it only took three years!  I'll be done before the end of the decade at this rate!

The next one is Hearts in Atlantis, which will, hopefully, be another short-ish one.  Six short stories/novellas.  I've not read it before, although one of the stories was also included in Six Stories.

In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 28th Year, Week 13/52

Four books last week - 5th to the 11th of November.  Two audiobooks, one that I'd read before, and two on kindle, including on that I'd read before.

Herding Hemingway's Cats is a nice popular genetics book, and I found that listening to it - even without paying a huge amount of attention - really helped clarify concepts for me which later came up in lectures.  I already had an overview, so it was easier to get on with the little details.  I also re-listened to About a Boy.  I'm so glad it's now studied in schools; there's so much to discuss in it.

I also read The Ex-Factor, a very silly book in which four friends decide to set each other up with their exes rather than risk another Tinder date.  It was 99p on Kindle.

Finally, I re-read Myth-ing Persons, the fifth in the Myth Adventures series.  I just looked it up, and apparently there are nineteen books in total.

I found out on the 16th that Sheri Tepper died on the 22nd of October.

In Which We Discuss Books I Read in my 28th Year, Week 12/52

Two books last week, one a reread, one I don't think I had actually read before.  The Martian which I last read back in May, and Hit or Myth, which I apparently missed when I read the series as a teenager.  I'm quite enjoying reading the series through again!