2025 Reading Challenge discussion

Hi all,

Another attempt to reach 100 books in the year ahead after several years of ranging between 50 and 75 or so. It will be a bit of a mix of all sorts, fiction and non-fiction, with an admitted bias toward SF. I intend to sketch review each one in this thread as I go...

cheers

Sean

Warm wishes with your new reading goal in 2020!
I'm also a big fan of science fiction! Though I've chosen Historical Fiction for my Genre Jammin' yearly challenge, just to reach out to different books. (I hope I won't be miserable, lol.)

Looking forward to your short reviews.

Hey, thanks oshizu. Are you focusing on any particular historical period?

#1 The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemmingway 4/5

This was a first time read for me, part of the Hemmingway target for the year. It's a gruff meditation on sticking to it, even when the original point and any real advantage is long gone.

Only 99 pages, but it still counts as a book right?

#2 The Accidental War Walter Jon Williams 3/5

This is the first book in the second Praxis trilogy and a bit of a slow start, but setting up the triology, so fair enough. WJW delivers another decently entertaining SF novel, not his best, but readable.

Whooooosh! Look at you go--two books already!

Sean wrote: "Hey, thanks oshizu. Are you focusing on any particular historical period?"
I'm trying to do a combination of historical fiction and works in translation (Q1/Africa, Q2/Latin America, Q3/Asia, Q4/Europe) so, no, not a particular time period. Wish me luck!

I'm planning to read Three-Body Problem and Ya Hoon Lee's series starting with Ninefox Gambit? Any advice on that? (Yes, I'm Asian)