Started the year by listening to Here We Go Again: My Life in Television and If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won't), both written and read by Betty White.
Nice review. I really appreciated the book (but didn't want to color your impression).To kick it off, i just finished Blindsight by Peter Watts. (And @Eyes of Nine was wondering my reaction.)
It's a beautifully fresh hard-SF take on First Contact, or almost two first contacts in that the humans themselves are different enough from our baseline that discovering them is a co-journey.
It's got a lot of exposition, but handles it well between making it pertinent to the action or as part of flashbacks. It's a thinky, philosophic novel.
It ends up with an interested premise that I don't personally endorse, but that did not detract from the story to me.
Imagine I am quite entertained.
I set last year's goal for 45 and read 47, so I set this year for 50. We'll see how it goes!Finally, just signed up for the Goodreads 2022 Reading challenge. Last year I finished 52 books, so that's what I'll do this year. A book a week - that feels doable again.
I'll be doing a re-read of the main 10-book Malazan arc by Erikson before moving into his latest books in that milieu. I read it previously over quite a span of years, losing threads and continuity in the process. A book or more a month will be like both coming home to the familiar and finding fresh new things to appreciate.