Reading Log for the week of January 4th

January 4:  I have bookmarks in multiple books right now, reading something different during breakfast, lunch, after dinner, and at bedtime, plus whenever I have a free moment. 

I'm halfway through my current breakfast time read -  Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome during breakfast about four siblings who, with permission from the father and mother, camp out on a island across from the mainland, by themselves, pretending to be pirates. Full of sailing adventures as well as parlaying with two amazons (two local sisters who live nearby). Totally enjoying this super sweet adventure story.  

Lunch time, it's Steve Berry's The Emperor's Tomb in which while Cotton helps his lady friend help find a kidnapped boy, their adventure takes them to China and the story is full of fascinating Chinese history, most of it true according to the author.  At the halfway point as well.  

Bedtime, it's Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed in which the alternating chapters between past and present are sort of driving me crazy so alternating with Alan Dean Foster's IceRiggers in which September and Foster (love their names) have just shipwrecked on a frozen planet and it's a battle between stupid kidnappers and the elements. 

I'm immersed in the ebook version of The Advent of Winter:  A Fantasy Anthology  - edited by Dom McDermott which was originally a kickstarter project a couple years ago and includes authors from all over the world writing fantasy short stories about winter. The first few stories are fantastic and I'm adding more new to me authors to my want list.  Now I want to get the physical copy of the book. 

I'll be diving into Les Miserables any minute now..... Plus Haruki Murakami's The City and It's Uncertain Walls. 

Nonfiction wise, I've almost filled a journal with notes from Louise DeSalvo's Art of Slow Writing. Also highlighting sage bits in Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk about Running. 

I was halfway through Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty, when I set it aside as it isn't quite keeping my attention like the first book The City of Brass which I couldn't put down.  I may go back to it later. 

I'm waiting patiently for Onyx Storm, the 3rd book in Rebecca Yarros's Empyrean series to be released January 21st.  It's also my January Dragon Bookology read. This is one series I will enjoy rereading again at a later date. 

 I think my reading for the month is set.