{"id":14696,"date":"2022-03-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=14696"},"modified":"2022-02-27T06:21:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T13:21:46","slug":"reading-resolution-update-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/reading-resolution-update-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Resolution Update: February"},"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 didn&#8217;t read nearly as many books in February as I did in January. Part of that might have been enthusiasm for the resolution waning a bit, but a good chunk of it was due to the fact that my grandmother passed away, and we took off a week for the funeral. Also, potty training completely upended our daily routine. I also went ahead and finished Jeff VanderMeer&#8217;s Southern Reach Trilogy, after reading <em>Annihilation<\/em>, so that took off a lot of reading time that otherwise would have gone toward this goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I&#8217;m not too worried about it, since I&#8217;m already well past the halfway point and should be able to finish before the end of the year. In fact, I went ahead and made a similar spreadsheet of all the short stories, novelettes, and novellas that won a Hugo\/Nebula, and may move on to those after I finish the novels. It&#8217;s going to be a lot more challenging to hunt down all of those titles, though, so I might just move on to the Dragon Awards instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, here are all the Hugo\/Nebula award-winning novels that I read or DNFed in February:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"books-that-i-read-and-plan-to-have-already-acquired\">Books that I read and plan to \/ have already acquired:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu and Ken Liu, trans. (2015 Hugo)<\/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>Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber (1944 Retro Hugo, awarded in 2019)<\/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>This Immortal by Roger Zelazny (1966 Hugo)<\/li><li>Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (1967 Nebula)<\/li><li>The Healer&#8217;s War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1990 Nebula)<\/li><li>Stations of the Tide  by Michael Swanwick (1992 Nebula) <\/li><li>Slan by A.E. Van Vogt (1941 Retro Hugo, awarded in 2016)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\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. I didn&#8217;t read nearly as many books in February as I did in January. Part of that might have been enthusiasm for the resolution waning a bit, but a good chunk&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/reading-resolution-update-february\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reading Resolution Update: February<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1493,1530,1519,1518,1502,567,1531,568,1507],"class_list":["post-14696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2022-reading-resolution","tag-a-e-van-vogt","tag-cixin-liu","tag-elizabeth-ann-scarborough","tag-fritz-leiber","tag-hugo-awards","tag-michael-swanwick","tag-nebula-awards","tag-samuel-r-delany","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-3P2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14696"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14854,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14696\/revisions\/14854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}