It’s a bit late in the year for this, but it’s been busy. 2016 started off with me heavily reading comics, but that petered off as I took on more and more responsibility for the twins. It takes time to write articles of the quality I prefer to write for Comic POW!. It’s also the year in which I read George RR Martin’s series A Song of Ice and Fire. You might have heard of it? The first book in the series is called A Game of Thrones. I enjoyed reading it and it provided a lot of insight to the show. It was also a good time to read it as it is generally no longer spoilery for the show. The extreme length of the books, however, meant I read less books than I might have otherwise read for the year.

Still, between reading during a quick 10 minute walk after lunch and while the twins drank their milk, I got in a good number of books. On Goodreads I’d set a goal of 35 books and ended up reading 55. I also continued diving deep into the books I’d bought via various ebook bundles and surprised myself with some great stories.

Some stats from Goodreads:

• 15,816 pages read (obviously audio books through this number off)
• Shortest book (26 pages): Myths of India: Yama
• Longest book (1,243): A Storm of Swords
• Most popular (nearly 2 million reads): A Game of Thrones
• Least popular (8 reads): Myths of India: Yama
• Highest rated on GR: A Storm of Swords

Links below to the reviews for the books. Comic links will take you to Comic POW! While non-comic links will be to blog posts here on this blog.

1. American Vampire Vol 6
2. Lumberjanes Vol 1
3. A Game of Thrones
4. Star Wars: The Original Radio Drama
5. Lumberjanes Vol 2
6. Lumberjanes Vol 3
7. Lumberjanes Vol 4
8. The Empire Strikes Back: The Original Radio Drama
9. Return of the Jedi: The Original Radio Drama
10. Fables Vol 9
11. Star Wars: Dark Empire
12. A Clash of Kings
13. Oh, Hell Vol 1
14. Lost Dogs
15. Bone
16. The Massive
17. Myths of India: Yama
18. Daybreak
19. Letter 44 Vol 1
20. A Storm of Swords
21. Invincible, Compendium 1
22. Kill Screen: Video Games are No Fun
23. Dune
24. Lightspeed Magazine (July 2010)
25. Bible Adventures
26. Ansible
27. Super I am 8-bit
28. Star Wars: Dark Empire II
29. A Feast for Crows
30. My Little Pony: Equestria Girls
31. Arcanum 101
32. Bleeding Violet
33. Super Mario Bros 3
34. A Dance with Dragons
35. The Three-Body Problem
36. Tithe
37. Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
38. Uglies
39. Constellation Games
40. The Manga Guide to Electricity
41. The Manga Guide to Calculus
42. The Magicians
43. The Manga Guide to Physics
44. Star Wars: Crimson Empire
45. The Dispatcher
46. The Magician King
47. God’s War
48. The Extraordinary League of Gentlemen: Century
49. Miss Fury
50. The Magician’s Land
51. Lovecraft’s Monsters
52. Piranha Frenzy
53. The Razor’s Edge
54. Working for Bigfoot
55. She Changed Comics