association-list

So, I did another book­shelf check the other day and the results are depressing.

• Hard­cover:

  • Unread: 4
  • Par­tial: 2

• Trade Paper:

  • Unread: 18
  • Par­tial: 13

• Mass Market:

  • Unread: 18
  • Par­tial: 3

• Totals:

  • Unread: 40
  • Par­tial: 18

• Grand Total: 58

So obvi­ously I’m more than a little behind. And I’m going to the book­store for the book club this after­noon, so I’ll likely get some more , because I have a prob­lem. But that isn’t the issue that I want to talk about today.

If you look at the notes for the par­tially read stack of books, you’ll see that there’re two stacks of mag­a­inzes, F&SF and Asimov’s. Those stacks are respec­tively eight and nine issues tall. I buy them and then I put them on the stack and I never read them, because I have too many books to read. But 18 short mag­a­zines seems like a small enough number to mov­ti­vate myself to tackle in a week, assum­ing that I apply some deter­mi­na­tion to the process, and a lot of time. I feel like I should do some­thing for it, though, so I’m going to attempt to write up the best/​most inter­est­ing sto­ries from each issue, and make a list at the end of people that I’ve not heard of who’re inter­est­ing, sort of a ‘names to watch out for’ thing. Of course, con­sid­er­ing my his­tory, now that I’ve announced it, it won’t happen, but I’ll see what I can do. Oh well.