The Tale of the Lost Book

Book #26 for the year was supposed to be "Warriors of God", by Andrzej Sapkowski. I had started it some weeks ago, and was making rapid progress, when disaster struck - there came the morning when I had it at home, then didn't have it when I reached the office, and yet it was neither at home, nor in the office, nor in the car. Somehow, it had disappeared.

I very rarely lose things - I do quite often misplace them, but they generally turn up (often where I left them last time I had them; sometimes where they have been hidden by the hiding-things fairies). And it drives me mental - it doesn't really matter what it is, but having something disappear like that creates a gap in the mental model of the universe, which is just endlessly frustrating.

In this instance, it also created a conundrum, because I've already picked out my remaining books for the year. As noted, book #26 was supposed to be "Warriors of God", which is part two of a trilogy, with the third part also on the list. I also had "Skyward Flight", but having just finished "Defiant" I had been hoping to delay that one a little. Book #27 will be the final Harry Potter, which I'm currently reading to Funsize.

But the final book that I had picked out was one that I at that time had on pre-order, as it had not yet been published at this time this all went down. So I couldn't really start that one. Suddenly, all my best laid plans had very much gone agley.

Anyway, the upshot of all of that is this: "Skyward Flight" is a collection of three novellas, so I ready the first while waiting for the new book to be published. Then I read that (see below). In the meantime, I ordered, and have now received, a replacement copy of "Warriors of God", which I will resume next. And that, more or less, puts the sequence back where it should be: book #26 is finished, #27 is the Harry Potter that will finish imminently, then #28 is "Warriors of God", #29 is "Skyward Flight", and then we finish with the third volume of that trilogy.

Unless things change again...

#26: "Firefly: Aim to Misbehave", by Rosiee Thor