Rearranging the book pile: part III

I got through Unbreakable:  Book One in the Chronicles of Promise Paen.  It was fun read.  I gave away some of my books.  It included several WH40K novels.  I had some H.P. Lovecraft anthologies from my brother's book collection.  I started in them and realized I'd already read the stories in earlier anthologies.

I shelved them and moved onto another WH40K novel called Master of Sanctity.  It's the second book in the Legacy of Caliban trilogy.  It's proved to be another easy read.  But it's about 412 pages long.

That means I have four move hard copies to read before going to my electronic slush pile...

Lamenting lack of writing and progress on the book pile: part 2

I finally wrote some this past week on my Mongol invasion story/novel/novella.  It's about 20,000 words now.  I don't know how long it's going to take to finish the rough draft.  I'm not writing that much on it.  I'm lucky to get 1,250 words/per week.  Sometimes, it's more like a 1,000 words/per week.

I started working on it in March 2015.  I thought it would have progressed into more by now.  I know what I want to write.  It's just a matter of doing it.  My father's illness threw a wrench into things.  At the rate I'm going, I don't expect to get done until spring 2016.  I could get done faster if I put some effort into it.

However, with everything going on right now, I don't see that happening...

That can also be said about my book pile.  I got little reading done in my current novel, Unbreakable, this weekend.  I should be pulling out my hair.  I have about six other hard copies to read.  Plus another dozen ebooks.  As the way things stand, I'll never get done.  Unless something changes.  Still, I need to make a more concentrated effort to catch up with my pleasure reading and stop adding to my reading pile.