Reading this week: 3

This week was an exercise in randomness as far as books are concerned. Still there is something to say. That something is that I made a return to the Foundation series. For those who may not have heard about it, Foundation is a series of science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov. Foundation began its life as a short story in 1942; over time Asimov expanded it to a book, wrote sequels and prequels and now the series stands at seven books. Moreover, Asimov linked his Robots and Galactic Empire series to Foundation (both precede Foundation), taking the total to some 15 books. Now in an ideal world, one would 'begin at the beginning and go till the end is reached and then stop', as the king put it in Through the looking glass. In the non ideal world we inhabit, my progress was rather haphazard, documented here, here and here. So this week I said, now that I have at least the full Foundation series on my bookshelf, why not read it in sequence? Not one to let go of any good ideas (bwahaha) I immediately put it into action, and began with the first book.