My Reading Backlog
Posted by D B Hill on Sunday, 18 February 2018
A couple of days ago I posted to Facebook about my tendency to pick up another book before I finish the one I'm reading. I provided a list of 29 books I am "in the middle of".
I thought that was bad.
It got worse.
I started looking through my Nook app and kept finding books there that I had started and not finished and then completely forgot about. I guess Nook books are easily "out of sight and out of mind". I started adding those to my list of 29, then decided I might as well also add the books I've bought and not yet read.
The list of half-read and unread books now has 69 entries. (sigh)
What's the old joke about how to eat an elephant? (one bite at a time).
So I have categorized and prioritized my list. My intent is to read all the Group A books, then move on to the Group B books, etc. I think I'll set a reminder for a year from now to review the list and evaluate my progress. LOL
For what it's worth, here's the list:
| Grp | Read | Form | Category | Book |
| A | Part | HC | Aviation | To Lasso the Clouds: The Beginning of Aviation in Georgia, by Dan A. Aldridge, Jr |
| A | Part | Nook | IT | Professional Access 2013 Programming, by multiple authors |
| A | Part | PB | Sewing | Historic American Costumes and How To Make Them, by Mary Evans |
| A | Part | Nook | IT | Access 2013: The Missing Manual, by Matthew McDonald |
| A | Part | Nook | Improve | Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Guide for Coordinate Remote Viewing, by David Morehouse, Ph.D. |
| A | Part | PB | Improve | The Hidden Addiction and How to Get Free, by Janice Keller Phelps, M.D. |
| A | Part | Nook | Philos. | The Seventh Sense, by Joshua Cooper Ramo |
| A | Part | PB | Improve | Strategic Relocation: North Amerian Guide to Safe Places, by Joel M. Skousen |
| A | Part | HC | Aviation | Flying off Rattlesnake Mountain, by Sylvia Dyer Turnage |
| A | None | Nook | IT | Pro Git, by Scott Chacon |
| A | None | Nook | Aviation | In The Cockpit With Chuck Yeager, by Di Freeze |
| A | None | Nook | Aviation | In The Cockpit With Bob Hoover, by Di Freeze |
| B | Part | PB | Aviation | Heroes of the Horizon: Flying Adventures of Alaska's Legendary Bush Pilots, by Gerry Bruder |
| B | Part | PB | Fitness | Base Building for Cyclists: A New Foundation for Endurance and Performance, by Thomas Chapple |
| B | Part | Nook | History | Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, by Eric Foner |
| B | Part | Nook | Philos. | The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, by James Gleick |
| B | Part | Nook | History | Northeast Georgia: A History, by Gordon Sawyer |
| B | Part | PB | Science | The Language of Crows, by Michael Westerfield |
| B | None | Nook | History | The Promist of the New South: Life After Reconstruction, by Edward L. Ayers |
| B | None | Nook | Gardening | The Humane Gardner, by Nancy Lawson |
| B | None | Nook | Philos. | Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, by Cal Newport |
| B | None | Nook | Philos. | The Industries of the Future, by Alec Ross |
| B | None | Nook | Gardening | A New Garden Ethic, by Benjamin Vogt |
| C | Part | PB | Military | Kill or Get Killed, by Col. Rex Applegate |
| C | Part | PB | Military | Long Range Shooting Handbook: A Beginner's Guide to Precision Rifle Shooting, by Ryan M. Cleckner |
| C | Part | Nook | Military | Sua Sponte: The Forging of a Modern American Ranger, by Dick Couch |
| C | Part | HC | Military | The F-101 Voodoo:An Illustrated History of McDonnell's Heavyweight Fighter, by Ronald Easley |
| C | Part | KNDL | Military | A Night in the Pech Valley, by Grant McGarry |
| C | Part | Nook | Military | War in the Run: the Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America’s First Frontier, by John F. Ross |
| C | Part | Nook | Military | Violence of Action: The Untold Stories if the 75th Ranger Regiment in the War on Terror, by Marty Skovlund |
| C | Part | KNDL | History | The True Story of How Standing Rock Fell, by Marty Skovlund, Jr. |
| C | Part | PB | Military | Voodoo Warriors: The Story of the McDonnell Voodoo Fast Jets, by Group Captain Nigel Walpole |
| C | None | Nook | Military | Here Are The Tigers: The Secret Air War in Laos and North Vietnam, 1968-69, by Reginald Hathorn |
| C | None | Nook | Military | A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II, by Adam Makos |
| C | None | Nook | Military | Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat, by James R. McDonough |
| C | None | Nook | Military | We Were Soldiers Once, and Young, by Hal Moore |
| C | None | Nook | Military | Stealth Patrol: The Making of a Vietnam Ranger, by Bill Shanahan and John P. Brackin |
| C | None | Nook | Military | Special Forces Berlin, by James Stejskal |
| D | Part | KNDL | Fiction | Open Season, by C. J. Box |
| D | Part | Nook | History | The Normans: From Raiders To Kings, by Lars Brownworth |
| D | Part | PB | History | The Makers of Scotland: Picts, Romans, Gaels, and Vikings, by Tim Clarkson |
| D | Part | HC | History | Barnesley Gardens at Woodlands, by Clent Coker |
| D | Part | PB | History | Living on the Unicoi Road: Helen's Pioneer Century and Tales From the Georgia Gold Rush, by Matt Gedney |
| D | Part | PB | History | The Snow Lion and The Dragon: China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama, by Melvyn C. Goldstein |
| D | Part | Nook | History | How The Scots Invented The Modern World, by Arthur Herman |
| D | Part | HC | History | Gray Ghosts and Rebel Raiders: The Daring Exploits of the Confederate Guerillas, by Virgil Carrington Jones |
| D | Part | Nook | History | The Royal Stuarts, by Allan Massie |
| D | None | KNDL | Fiction | Savage Run, by C. J. Box |
| D | None | Nook | Travel | Scotland: Stunning, Strange, and Secret, by Christy Nicholas |
| D | None | Nook | History | The Bonfire: The Siege and Burnjng Of Atlanta, by Marc Workman |
| E | Part | PB | Philos. | The World Until Yesterday, by Jared Diamond |
| E | Part | HC | Science | The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics, Edited by Timothy Ferris |
| E | Part | KNDL | Philos. | A Battle for the Soul of Islam: An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith, by Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser |
| E | Part | Nook | Science | Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World, by Lisa Randall |
| E | Part | Nook | Science | Demon-Haunted World Science as a Candle in the Dark, by Carl Sagan |
| E | Part | Nook | Science | The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God, by Carl Sagan |
| E | None | Nook | Space | Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration, by Buzz Aldrin |
| E | None | Nook | Space | Return to Mars, by Ben Bova |
| E | None | Nook | Philos. | The Unfinished Revolution: How to Make Technology Work for Us - Instead of the Other Way Around, by Michael L. Dertouzos |
| E | None | Nook | Science | Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World, by Steven Johnson |
| E | None | Nook | Science | The Social Conquest of Earth, by Edward O. Wilson |
| E | None | Nook | Space | The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must, by Robert Zubrin |
| E | None | Nook | Space | How to Live On Mars: A Trusty Guidebook to Surviving and Thriving on the Red Planet |
| F | Part | PB | Philos. | Iron John: A Book About Men, by Robert Bly |
| F | Part | HC | Fiction | The River of Kings, by Taylor Brown |
| F | Part | Nook | Philos. | Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and The Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped, by Garry Kasparov |
| F | Part | PB | Philos. | Challenge of a Liberal Faith, by George N. Marshall |
| F | Part | HC | History | The Slave Trade, by Hugh Thomas |
| F | Part | Nook | Philos. | Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What it Says About Us), by Tom Vanderbilt |