Friday, December 31, 2021

Ending another year.

I am ending out 2021 without ever having returned to the blog. After all of the changes of 2020, I had high hopes for 2021. I won't say that it was worse because I don't think that it was. Instead, I will say that it was different. The successes and challenges were different. The second half of the year particularly presented a number of challenges for me, but it also brought a lot of hope as well. I won't get into specifics here but those who know me will be aware of what all of this means.

I do hope to begin posting again in 2022. I'm not sure when, how often, or in what capacity, but I do want to make a return. Be on the lookout. I may eventually finish up some of the series that I have started and begin writing about some new topics. Check back, or just wait for my annoying social media posts.


2021 Books

 I don't write about all of the books that I read.  Here is a list of the books that I read in 2021.

Asimov, Isaac.  Forward the Foundation.
---.  The Complete Robot.
---.  The Caves of Steel.
---.  The Naked Sun.
Christensen, Emma.  Brew Better Beer.
Cline, Ernest.  Ready Player Two.
Corey, James SA.  Babylon's Ashes.
---.  Persepolis Rising.
---.  Tiamat's Wrath.
Cronin, Justin.  The Passage.
DeLillo, Don.  Libra.
Farina, Richard.  Been down so Long it Looks like up to Me.
Frye, Northrop.  Anatomy of Criticism.
Goldberg, Lee Matthew.  Orange City.
Haldeman, Joe.  The Accidental Time Machine.
Halliday, Brett.  Heads You Lose.
Kaku, Michio.  Physics of the Impossible.
King, Stephen.  The Outsider.
Koch, Greg and Matt Allyn.  The Brewer's Apprentice.
Kunath, Brian.  Fearless Brewing: The Beer Maker's Bible.
MacDonald, John D.  The Deep Blue Goodbye.
---.  Man-Trap.
Martinez, A. Lee.  The Automatic Detective.
Mitchell, David.  The Bone Clocks.
Onyebuchi, Tochi.  Riot Baby.
Palmer, John J.  How to Brew.
Powers, Zach.  First Cosmic Velocity.
Robinson, Kim Stanley.  The Ministry for the Future.
---.  Red Mars.
Rowling, JK.  Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
---.  Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Saunders, George.  Lincoln in the Bardo.
Spillane, Mickey.  The Girl Hunters.
Stirling, SM.  Island in the Sea of Time.
Sturtevant, Lynne.  Haunted Marietta.
Wallace, David Foster.  Consider the Lobster.
Watt, James.  Business for Punks.
Wilson, Daniel H.  How to Survive a Robot Uprising.
Woodske, Dan.   A Brewer's Guide to Opening a Nano Brewery.