{"id":14590,"date":"2022-01-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-22T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=14590"},"modified":"2022-02-18T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:10:33","slug":"reading-resolution-update-before-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/reading-resolution-update-before-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Resolution Update: Before 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>My 2022 Reading Resolution: Read or DNF every novel that has won a Hugo or a Nebula award, and acquire all the good ones.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was going to keep track of my reading resolution this year by mentioning each book and what I liked or didn&#8217;t like about it, why I DNFed it if I did, etc\u2026 and then I thought about it a little more and realized that that&#8217;s a terrible idea. Perhaps if I weren&#8217;t an author myself, I could risk bringing down the wrath of the internet by broadcasting everything that I really think about these books, but that&#8217;s still a really stupid thing to do\u2014not to mention, a great way to burn a bunch of bridges that, as a writer, I really shouldn&#8217;t burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, I&#8217;m going to post a monthly update where I list all of the books that I read and want to acquire, all the books that I read and probably won&#8217;t acquire, and all of the books that I DNFed, without any book-specific commentary. I do think that having some public accountability will help me to keep this resolution, and I do intend to keep it. But because I anticipate DNFing a lot of books that have very, um, merciless fans, this seems like a better way to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here is how things stood on the morning of January 1st, 2022:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"books-that-i-read-and-want-to-have-already-acquired\">Books that I read and want to \/ have already acquired:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Double Star by Robert A. Heinlein (1956 Hugo)<\/li><li>Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (1960 Hugo)<\/li><li>A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. (1961 Hugo)<\/li><li>The Man in the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick (1963 Hugo)<\/li><li>Dune by Frank Herbert (1966 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin (1970 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1975 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>Downbelow Station by C.J. Cherryh (1982 Hugo)<\/li><li>Neuromancer by William Gibson (1985 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>Ender&#8217;s Game by Orson Scott Card (1986 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>Speaker for the Dead by Orson  Scott Card (1987 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold (1992 Hugo)<\/li><li>Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold (1995 Hugo)<\/li><li>The Mule (included in Foundation and Empire) by Isaac Asimov (1946 Retro Hugo, awarded in 1996)<\/li><li>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling (2001 Hugo)<\/li><li>Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein (1951 Retro Hugo, awarded in 2001)<\/li><li>Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1954 Retro Hugo, awarded in 2004)<\/li><li>Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (2006 Hugo)<\/li><li>The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (1939 Retro Hugo, awarded in 2014)<\/li><li>Network Effect by Martha Wells (2021 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"books-that-i-read-and-don-t-plan-to-acquire\">Books that I read and don&#8217;t plan to acquire:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester (1952 Hugo)<\/li><li>The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1975 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>Gateway by Frederik Pohl (1977 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1993 Nebula)<\/li><li>American Gods by Neil Gaiman (2001 Hugo)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"books-that-i-did-not-finish\">Books that I did not finish:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein (1966 Hugo)<\/li><li>Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (1966 Nebula)<\/li><li>Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny (1967 Hugo)<\/li><li>Ringworld by Larry Niven (1970 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (1973 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><li>Green Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1993 Hugo)<\/li><li>Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (1996 Hugo)<\/li><li>Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman (1997 Hugo, 1998 Nebula)<\/li><li>The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (2015 Hugo)<\/li><li>The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin (2016 Hugo)<\/li><li>The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (2017 Hugo and Nebula)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2022 Reading Resolution: Read or DNF every novel that has won a Hugo or a Nebula award, and acquire all the good ones. 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