Back in August I decided to take on the challenge of re-reading / reading the entire Xanth Series by Piers Anthony.
In January I was most of the way through the tenth book, “Vale of the Vole”, and as of this morning I have started on “Faun and Games”, the 21st book in the series. So, moving right along.
One nice side effect of this challenge is that I’ve taken to spending at least an hour every other morning during the week sitting outside in the sunshine just to read… See, I switch off days at the office with my roommate, and the days I work from my office here at the house I start the day with an hour of reading.
This may not happen in the winter as sitting outside becomes problematic, but I’ll see what I can do. 🙂
The additional reading time has meant I can add a few other books into the mix as well, and I just finished A.A. Atanasio’s “The Dragon and the Unicorn” – which is a far, far more complicated read than your typical Xanth novel.
So far the biggest issue is I’m using my Kindle and e-books – and some of the e-books are terribly done; bad formatting and bad scanning being the foremost issues. The current book, “Faun and Games” is one of the bad ones where I have to literally translate things to read it. For example, the scanner had a real issue with ‘n’s and tended to turn them into ‘h’s and it randomly missed or added periods and carriage returns, so there are pages without sentence breaks and other pages where each paragraph is broken into 3-4 pieces.
So it’s not as fun as it could be.
But I soldier on and will finish all 46 novels! (It just may take another year…)
Listening to "Edge of Oblivion (Instrumental)" by New Arcades