 It is December 29, 2017. It's time to wrap up my activities for the month of December. I'm recording tonight at a new science fiction themed restaurant in Portland called The Nerd Out. I was invited to this free opening event to put them to test out their menu, give free food to all their friends. The proprietor is Mitch Gillan. There's a shot of him here waving at the camera. I met him last summer at a meeting of the Portland Geek Council. The things that I did in December, I did a lot in December, despite being so terribly ill for the first two weeks of the month, I completed the first episode of The Truth, which I hope you watched. It's all about the Sam Snowman and his alter ego, Burl Ives. And as I pointed out at the end of that video, I am working on episode 2, which should come at the end of January and maybe mid-February. I hope you all enjoy that series. Let's get to my regular book buying wrap up. These are the books that I bought in the past month. It's Andre Norton's Sargasso Space. I already featured this one in my latest triad chapter book tag. And as I mentioned before, I've never reviewed Andre Norton and I need to. Here's a classic anthology called The Frozen Planet and other science fiction novellas. Among the authors are Heath Lommer and Clifford Symmac. I also got Stalking in the Unicorn by Mike Resnick. This is not a book I know anything about. I am familiar with Mike Resnick. I like his work. He's another author I don't think I've reviewed. And I need to change that. Then came this funny little thing. It's called The Girls from Planet Five. The cover caught my eye. The unusual nature of this big yellow five on here and the cover painting. Look at the description of it. It says, when the beautiful invaders took over, only Texas fought back. Okay, I bought it as soon as I read that. I definitely want to try reading this. I don't know if it'll be any good. When I do, I'll give a review of it and I'll read you the full blurb on the back. It's at one and the same time hilariously funny and disturbing. And then there's also She. Again, I mentioned this in the triad chapter video. I'm halfway through this. I'm already halfway through. That's fast for me. And I'm thoroughly enjoying it. I will definitely be doing a review of this. It might be my first review of 2018. You'll see. And then here's some books that I bought just earlier today. Philip Wiley's The Spy He Spoke Corpus. I've never heard of this. I don't know much about Philip Wiley. I know he wrote When Worlds Collide and the sequel to When Worlds Collide. Those were on the shelf with this, too. But I saw this title and I was like, what? And it was very inexpensive, so I got this. And also this thing called City of Glass. It says it's a double action pocketbook and that it's a novel. I've never seen a novel package like this. This looks like a periodical, like a pulp. And just a few days ago at Powell's, those others I bought at Powell's, too. I saw this box set on the shelf. The Tempo Science Fiction Library. I'm not familiar with Tempo books, first of all. And second of all, it's a box set of six full books. And it was on sale for less than $10. A complete box set of science fiction anthologies by a publisher I've not heard of. There's no way I wasn't going to snap this up. This looks amazing. I'll dig through these and tell you about them. And that leaves these two. Bodies one and two of the complete Peanuts. These are big books and I got them inexpensively at Powell's. I can't fit them in here. Anyway, I'm not a particular fan of Charles Schultz's Peanuts comics. But I bought them for research purposes and you'll see why. Before I go, I'll mention the things that I usually mention at the beginning of the video. I am past 900 subscribers on YouTube now. At the moment I'm at 908. I got a big surge of subscribers this month. After saying last month that I had lost some subscribers, I got more than I usually get for this month. I wasn't expecting to be past 900 by the end of this month, but I raced up past it. I still have my same five sponsors. Here they are. Thank you, you guys. I listed the sponsors at the end of the Truth video. The Sam Snowman video. That's the first time I've listed my sponsors at the end of a video in the credits. And I should do that more often. And I will. There are definitely more episodes of the 32nd half hour being planned. I believe that's it for this video. Thank you Mitch at The Nerd Out for allowing me to record my little videos here. Thank you all for watching. Thank you all for your support. And as soon as I'm done with this, I will record my best of 2017 video. See you then. In the description below and go to my 50th street page where you can become a sponsor.