re: 2024 Reading Challenge

I fell a little short of 20 books last year, so I'll go with 18.

Hopefully I can hit that. I know there were some stretches where I didn't read like I could've and I'm wanting to read a couple longer books again this year.

Goal: 18 Books

1. The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane - Robert E. Howard, 414 pages, 4/5
Moon of skulls may be my favorite story by Howard now.

2. The First Poems in English - Various, translated by Michael Alexander, 140 pages, 4/5
These poems (much like Beowulf) blend the old pagan England with the Christian one, and rather match the grafting in of Gentiles. Pretty good.

3. When God spoke Greek - Timothy Michael Law, 174 pages, 3/5
Very opinionated and at times reads like a Wikipedia entry mixed with a blog. Still, interesting stuff about the history of the Septuagint and the Bible.

4. Red Rabbit - Tom Clancy, 636 pages, 3/5
First Clancy book I've read in awhile. Was ok.

5. The Complete Plays - Sophocles, 440 pages, 4/5

6. Ben-Hur A Tale of the Christ - Lew Wallace, 488 pages, 5/5
A few quotes I really loved
"Could he have taken the offer and said the word, history might have been other than it is; but then it would have been history ordered by men, not God - something that never was and never will be."

"The intentions of God are always strange to us; but not more so than the means by which they are wrought out, and at last made plain to our belief."

"All the servants hastened weeping to see him; for he had the love of every living thing with which he had anytime to do;but when they beheld his face, and the smile upon it, they dried their tears, saying, "It is well. He is happier this evening than when he went out in the morning."

7. Blood and Smoke - Stephen King, 3 hrs 47 minutes, 2/5
1408 was the highlight of the stories

8. 'Salem's Lot - Stephen King, 18 hours, 3/5

9. Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems - Alfred Tennyson, 367 pages, 4/5

10. Farnham's Freehold - Robert Heinlein, 10 hrs 25 minutes, 3/5