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SEPTEMBER TO DECEMBER 2017<\/span><\/h4>\n

I’ve never been so into reading, and I have a growing list of some 90 books on my to-read list. For every book I read, I seem to add two more to that list, but that’s OK – I can happily live with that seemingly impossible task.<\/p>\n

September began just as I was about a third of the way through\u00a0Written in My Own Heart’s Blood<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(2014),\u00a0<\/span>the eighth and most recent <\/span>Outlander<\/em><\/strong><\/a> novel<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On September 2, I completed part 2 and decided to delay reading the rest. I would like to keep going, but I also want to draw out the story for as long as possible as there is still no release date for the next book in the series. The author, Diana Gabaldon<\/strong><\/a>, has posted excerpts from it, so it’s well and truly on the way, but she warned readers not to expect publication this year. Hence, I’ll take a temporary leave from the epic tale of Clair Fraser to diminish the waiting time should book 8 end on a cliffhanger.<\/p>\n

The first detour is in the form of Counter-Clock World<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(1967)\u00a0<\/em>by Philip K. Dick.<\/strong><\/a> I knew nothing of the story before choosing it. I choose it because of its interesting and promising title, and by the second page, I knew I had made a good decision. And the dead shall rise again…<\/p>\n

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I finished on September 9 and then continued with some of the author’s short stories. “Beyond Lies The Wub”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(1952) was followed by “Paycheck” and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(1952).<\/p>\n

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I finished Paycheck<\/strong> <\/em><\/a>on the afternoon of Sunday, September 10. I then read another Philip K. Dick short story, “The Eyes Have It”<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(1953), which is a nice short delicious piece of sci-fi comedy that begins with the great line: “It was quite by accident I discovered this incredible invasion of Earth by lifeforms from another planet.”<\/p>\n

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