Nyx Goldstone

Well, if I keep this up, I know I’ll at least make 50 books this year.

Books 35 and 36 were the 5th and 6th books in the Jack Sparrow books: The Age of Bronze and Silver. As much as I both do and don’t enjoy these books, I’m apparently destined to read them. I found Age of Bronze at a local Barnes & Nobel for a dollar new, and Silver used at Bookman for almost two dollars. In that order, even! Who am I to turn that away, huh? The series either is growing on me, or it’s getting better. The little notes when references to previous books are made still make me laugh a little too harshly, but they’re getting faster for me to get through. I read both books in two sittings.

My 37th book was Sarek. Yes, another Star Trek book. I’m thinking of changing my name to “Nyx No-I’m-Not-A-Trekkie Goldstone.” I keep getting ribbed by my friends for being so focused on the Vulcans. At least I’m not going stereotypical and going on about the Klingons, right? Of course, I’ve never done anything typical. Really… The Vulcans are far more fascinating to me than Klingons are. Though, I did geek out a bit while reading this and had to look Klingon words up to know what they were saying. I think I looked up 3 of them. I don’t remember now.

Speaking of geeking out… I confess. I picked up a new pet project when I read my first Star Trek book. While trying to figure out which books to read, I’ve noticed that not a single site has a complete list of books, nor what order they should be read in if you’re wanting to follow chronologically. I’m a big chronological person. I like to know histories and I like to understand references to previous events. I don’t plan on posting my progress until after I read a fair number of books, so it doesn’t look any stranger of a list then it already does. Yeah, that’s the other thing… So that I know exactly where it fits in the time line, the book won’t be added until I finish it. This is a long, long, LONG project in the works.

Go me, right? >.<

Just finished Spock’s World, my first attempt at Star Trek novels and the 34th book in my challenge. I’m glad I picked this book to explore this fandom with the written word. Since seeing the new movie, the entire concept of the Vulcan race intrigued me. Then, at the local public library, I found this book.

Every other chapter is a segment in Vulcan’s history, staring from the creation of the Milky Way galaxy and the white star that makes up Vulcan’s sun and bringing us “up to date” with the birth of Spock. Fascinating! With each jump in history, I learned a little bit about the Vulcan culture. Strange, coming from me, since I have little interest in very few human cultures (enough to get me by in my own, and a few that were just idle curiosities for me).

The main plot didn’t hold my interest too much. Will Vulcan secede from the Federation, or won’t it? Living with Trekkies, I already knew the answer. I think anyone who read this book already knew the answer before the question was asked. It was a nice tie-in with a season two episode of the original series, though. So, thus begins my newest obsession.

I’m only a few years behind the times, right?

Otherwise known as “I used to read faster than this!!!”

Book 32 was Warriors: Tigerstar & Sasha – Return to the Clans. A brief, unsatisfying manga of the Warriors series that I’ve been reading. But, I finished it! I’m all caught up!!! …except, of course, for the next 6-book series in the set. Haven’t even started those yet…

Book 33 was Living with the Dead, by (you guessed it!) Kelley Armstrong! This marks me being current with her Otherworld books! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!! I don’t have another one to read until later this year/early next year, though….saaaaad… Guess I’ll just have to work on those fanfictions until then, huh?  Either way, Living with the Dead was a pretty good one. She went a whole new direction with it, though, making it third person narrative rather than first. It was kinda awkward to read, though, especially since her voice still screams first person, and I kept seeing it as such. Who knows what the next one will bring, eh?