pvincent Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 (edited) Before We Was We: Madness by Madness - Mike Barson et a [Kindle] [Started 2020] The Broons Annual 1990 [Started 2020] Middle England - Jonathan Coe [Started 2020] Coffinmaker's Blues: Collected Writings On Terror - Stephen Volk [Started 2020] Days In The Life - Jonathon Green The Race - Nina Allan Oor Wullie Annual 1991 Inside No.9: The Scripts, Series 1-3 - Steve Pemberton & Reece Shearsmith The Broons Annual 1992 In A Glass Darkly - Sheridan Le Fanu I Wanna Be Yours - John Cooper Clarke The Broons Annual 1994 This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone R Is For Rocket & S Is For Space - Ray Bradbury The Broons Annual 2000 Times & Sounds - Jan Reetze David Lynch: The Unified Field - Robert Cozzolino The Dark Masters Trilogy - Stephen Volk The Broons Annual 2004 The Broons Annual 2006 The Little Gift - Stephen Volk Studio Of Screams - Bissette / Golden / Lebbon / Morris / Volk Oor Wullie Annual 2007 The Broons Annual 2008 A Saucer Of Loneliness - Theodore Sturgeon The Broons Annual 2010 Wayfinding - Michael Bond Bright Segment - Theodore Sturgeon Lynch On Lynch - Chris Rodley (ed.) And Now The News... - Theodore Sturgeon Room To Dream - David Lynch & Kristine McKenna The Man Who Lost The Sea - Theodore Sturgeon The Nail And The Oracle - Theodore Sturgeon The Gameshouse - Claire North Reflections Of Alan Turing - Dermot Turing The Fire Starters - Jan Carson You Know What You Could Be: Tuning Into The 1960s - Mike Heron & Andrew Greig The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again - M. John Harrison Under A Raven's Wing - Stephen Volk Becoming Superman - J. Michael Straczynski The Good Neighbours - Nina Allan Somebody's Voice - Ramsey Campbell Slow Sculpture - Theodore Sturgeon Remain In Love - Chris Frantz Case And The Dreamer - Theodore Sturgeon The Kind Folk - Ramsey Campbell Medical Grade Music - Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi The West Highland Way - Terry Marsh Ghosts Know - Ramsey Campbell The Seven Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton The 32 - Paul McVeigh ed. The Art Of Space Travel - Nina Allan The West Highland Way - Terry Marsh Mister Invincible Local Hero - Pascal Jousselin Ayrshire And Arran Coastal Paths - Keith Fergus Just Behind You - Ramsey Campbell A Calculated Life - Anne Charnock [Kindle] Baking With Kafka - Tom Gauld You’re All Just Jealous Of My Jetpack - Tom Gauld Van Der Graaf Generator: Every Album, Every Song - Dan Coffey Wilson - Daniel Clowes Embers Of War - Gareth L Powell Notebook - Tom Cox Mooncop - Tom Gauld Just For One Day - Louise Wener [Kindle] Goliath - Tom Gauld Humble Pi - Matt Parker Fleet Of Knives - Gareth L Powell Castle Waiting - Linda Medley Light Of Impossible Stars - Gareth L Powell Toast On Toast - Steven Toast Forgotten Heroes Of Comedy - Robert Ross Thirteen Days By Sunset Beach - Ramsey Campbell Think Yourself Lucky - Ramsey Campbell Zero Bomb - M.T.Hill Mazes & Labyrinths - W.H.Matthews Castle Waiting Volume II - Linda Medley The Smoke - Simon Ings Spirits Of The Season: Christmas Hauntings - Tanya Kirk (ed.) Chill Tidings: Dark Tales Of The Christmas Season - Tanya Kirk (ed.) Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales For The Longest Nights - Tanya Kirk & Lucy Evans (eds.) Broken Greek - Pete Paphides The Bishop Of Hell - Marjorie Bowen Brilliant Maps - Ian Wright The Broons Annual 2022 The Elements Of Eloquence - Mark Forsyth The Magic Box - Rob Young Edited December 29, 2021 by pvincent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvincent Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 Hmmm... just realised that one's posts in a topic don't appear to be editable. So not quite sure how I'll add items to my reading list, other than by adding replies, one reply per book read. Not quite the effect I had in mind. Wonder how other people create an ongoing reading list? So much to learn! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 You can edit your posts once you’ve made 10 posts. In the meantime if you want to edit just drop me a PM and I’ll edit it for you until you get the to required number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted February 8, 2021 Share Posted February 8, 2021 Hi Paul, welcome to the forum . That looks like a really varied list! I really want to read some more Ray Bradbury and ‘In a Glass Darkly’ has been on my list for ages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvincent Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share Posted February 8, 2021 Brian - many thanks for clarifying! Is it OK to post my reading lists from previous years in this forum, too? I’m a refugee from BookGroupOnline, which will be closing down later this year, alas, and I’ve several years of my lists there which I’d love to keep, for sharing and for reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvincent Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share Posted February 8, 2021 Hi Hayley! Two of the very first SF books I ever read were Bradbury’s “R Is For Rocket” and “S Is For Space”, which I discovered aged 9, around 1966, in my local library (or my alternate home, as I spent so much time there in my youth!). I always recalled them fondly, so when I learned PS Publishing were publishing a beautiful hb omnibus edition of the two books, I knew what hints to drop in my wife’s direction, as last Christmas approached. Happily, memory has not played tricks, and the stories are as good as I remember - better, now I’m of an age to fully appreciate their nuance. My all-time favourite Bradbury novel, not that he wrote many, is “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, a fantasy beautifully unlike any other I’ve read before or since; I strongly suspect The League Of Gentlemen had it firmly in mind when they introduced us to Papa Lazarou’s Pandemonium Carnival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pvincent Posted February 8, 2021 Author Share Posted February 8, 2021 Hayley - I found the Le Fanu slightly hard going initially: the often archaic language, and the incredibly long sentences with their dense thickets of subordinate clauses. However, the novella “The Room In The Dragon Volant” completely won me over, and proved a gloriously enjoyable “scam” caper, whilst the closing “Carmilla” revealed where Bram Stoker - as he freely admitted - obtained much of his inspiration for “Dracula”. A very, very highly recommended collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian. Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 5 hours ago, pvincent said: Brian - many thanks for clarifying! Is it OK to post my reading lists from previous years in this forum, too? I’m a refugee from BookGroupOnline, which will be closing down later this year, alas, and I’ve several years of my lists there which I’d love to keep, for sharing and for reference. Of course, go for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayley Posted February 9, 2021 Share Posted February 9, 2021 13 hours ago, pvincent said: My all-time favourite Bradbury novel, not that he wrote many, is “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, a fantasy beautifully unlike any other I’ve read before or since That's good to hear because it's the book I particularly wanted to read! I have to admit I don't think I've heard of "S is for Space" or "R is for Rocket" before but I looked them up after seeing them on your list and they sound amazing! 13 hours ago, pvincent said: Hayley - I found the Le Fanu slightly hard going initially: the often archaic language, and the incredibly long sentences with their dense thickets of subordinate clauses. However, the novella “The Room In The Dragon Volant” completely won me over, and proved a gloriously enjoyable “scam” caper, whilst the closing “Carmilla” revealed where Bram Stoker - as he freely admitted - obtained much of his inspiration for “Dracula”. A very, very highly recommended collection. I don't mind a book that's hard going initially, as long as it has features that make it worth the extra effort! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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