I spent another weekend reading Small Favor by Jim Butcher. I got another 100 pages into it. I'm now reading it again today. I'd like to get another 50 pages done this weekend. The narrator is Harry Dresden, a wizard/private investigator. His beat is Chicago set in urban fantasy. This is the first book I've read in the series, The Dresden Files. It's been entertaining....
I read The Last Stand of Fox Company by Bob Drury yesterday. I'm only reading a chapter a week. Because of that, it's been a slow go. The book is about the 7th US Marine Infantry Regiment at the Chosin Reservoir during the Korean War. I finished the opening chapter where a Chinese People's Liberation Army infantry battalion has attacked Fox Company on a snowy November night. I'm amazed how unprepared we were to deal with the Chinese during this conflict. Or what a loon MacArthur was...
The beginning of the week had me try and read Analog Magazine. I started a novella. But I got side-tracked Sunday afternoon. I'll try and do better this Sunday. I also read 4 chapters out of Proxima by Stephen Baxter. He managed to kill all of the convict settlers off except for Yuri Eden and a marooned Australian astronaut on Proxima Centauri c. There are other lifeforms on the planet, which is an Earth-like satellite of a red dwarf star. It's getting to the point of first contact between Eden and the "builders."
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