Pre 2019 for a good few years I had read next to nothing book length. Really starting with when I went on night shift (or very early morning shift as the boss calls it
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) - I quite enjoy my job but I feel the weird hours had a proper impact on my ability to concentrate as easily as I used to. So last year around my birthday in June I decided to force myself to read at least a book a month and stop wasting as much time in bloody games, especially games that are just time sinks. So with an aim to ready 7 books I ended up doing 17 once I realised it really is all about routine and breaking bad habits it's second nature. Setting myself a challenge of 35 for this year.... so we'll see how that goes! 
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Off to a decent start for 2020....
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/509 ... _the_Three
I read the first chapter or so of this after I finished The Gunslinger and after the daft encounter with the "Lobstrosities" I decided this wasnt for me. Picked it up again at the start of the year (after doing a quick speedskim back through The Gunslinger to refresh my memory) and its not bad. The ideas and the visuals are all great though the inconsistent laws of the doors becomes a bit of a headache. The highlight was when Roland goes shopping in the final section. I dont think it was as good as The Gunslinger but it was better than the first few chapters made it seem.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29751398-the-power
I actually read half of this in December so its a split year one. Plot is women all over the world start gaining the ability to do very close range force lighting. Anywhere from light shocks to brain melting murder. This leads to women starting to flip the tables on the patriarchy and how that changes the landscape of the world and how women decide to use that power. It's actually a really great read. I dont really like the way the event at the end happens, the timeline feels a bit compacted and there is this "voice" one of the characters hears that I could do without but overall I really quite liked it. Its smartly written and it's not just a "women can run this place better than the men" thing. Apparently Margaret Atwood was the authors mentor for what thats worth.
I also started reading The Future Of Another Timeline which was so bloody awful I had to put it in the bin after a few chapters. I didnt even want to inflict it on the charity shop. It seemed to be about a team of time traveling women that try to change the timeline to make things better for women while the bad guys are going back to make things better for men. Maybe it gets better but the start was really poorly written and the women call themselves the "Daughters of Harriet" as in Tubman which made me laugh at the stupidity. I'm up for reading feminist leaning stories but I couldnt find anything worthwhile in here. It does seem to have good reviews so I'm probably wrong.
On the bookshelf already for this coming year so far...
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..open to suggestions though! I tend to not get on that well with LotR style fantasy settings. Preference genres would probably be scifi or horror but those are both often done really bad so open to most suggestions!
Book 3 in particular is brilliant.
This should have been made into the movie.
