DisassemblyOfReason's TBR Challenge for 2022

TBR for 2022:

1. The French Quarter by Herbert Asbury

2. The Horizon Book of the Elizabethan world by Lacey Baldwin-Smith

3. The Art of Concurrency by Clay Breshears

4. Fortress in the Eye of Time by C.J. Cherryh

5. The law of becoming by Kate Elliott

6. The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison

7. The Dragon Waiting by John Ford

8. 1610: A Sundial in a Grave by Mary Gentle

9. The Wild Machines by Mary Gentle

10. Lost Burgundy by Mary Gentle

11. The Golden Witchbreed by Mary Gentle

12. Ancient Light by Mary Gentle

13. The lion's eye by Mary Gentle (carried over to 2023 and completed Jan 2023)

14. The stone golem by Mary Gentle

15. Learning Python (5th edition) by Mark Lutz

16. Lens of the World by R.A. MacAvoy - COMPLETED
Restarted 31 October/completed 5 November.

17. Python for Data Analysis (2nd edition) by Wes McKinney

18. Dreamrider by Sandra Miesel

19. Pthreads Programming by Bradford Nichols

20. Perl and XML by Erik T. Ray

21. Alamut by Judith Tarr - COMPLETED
Begun 7 Dec/completed 10 Dec.

22. The dagger and the cross by Judith Tarr (carried over to 2023 and completed Jan 2023)

23. The eye of Horus by Carol Thurston - COMPLETED
Begun 29 Sept/completed 8 Oct.

24. The Titanic: end of a dream by Wyn Craig Wade - COMPLETED
Begun 19 Nov/completed 21 Nov.

Whew, Eddison and Ford is fantasy classics territory; and Cherryh may be destined to rank among them. Looks like different Gentle series, figured you'd address her all in one shot?

>2 Cecrow:

I have a few omnibus editions of Gentle's work, but they're pretty large, so I'm taking them in their component works instead.

Interesting list. I'm looking forward to your review of the Cherryh book as it's on my wish list. Happy reading!

i have a feeling you're a programmer...all my programmer friends seem to like Mary Gentle a lot ^_^

happy reading!

I don't actually recognize any of these titles which means I'll be following along with interest to see what books I've been missing out on.

That's a lot of Mary Gentle books! A few years back I read an omnibus of Gentle's Ash: a secret history and loved it. I've since read other works by her that I also remember fondly.

Are you new to Python, or is it a refresher? Do you know other programming languages?

I know a little Python, not much. (Sorry about the delayed response.)

Lens of the World doesn't have nice neat chapter breaks.

I have dipped into it before, but I had had an impression that it is broken into multiple 'letters' by the narrator. If it is, I haven't run into that yet, and even if it is, it doesn't manifest in how the e-book is organized.

On the other hand, it appears to have been well-edited, so far.

Long chapters are like being faced with dense pages without paragraph breaks. Those little breathers really help sometimes, you feel like you're making some headway. I recently finished an 800 page book that I think had a whole eight chapters; wasn't a fan of that approach.

That's one of the ways e-books frustrate me, not being able to flip ahead easily and see what you're up against. You can't even judge the total size of the book very well. And I find the "percentage complete" stat very untrustworthy, a simple bit of math demonstrates it's often wrong.

The percentage complete is deceptive in the case of Lens of the World, certainly; this copy ends with a preview of the next book in the series.