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The 2008 Books
Dec. 29th, 2008 03:46 pmIt's that time again. And since I am currently fluttering around waving my hands ineffectually at the sheer volume of stuff I have to get done in the next two days to put on New Year's, meet some deadlines, and save the universe on time -- and will not have time to pick up a new book before Thursday -- this is a good displacement activity. :p
(The 2008 Grand Metrics wait until the day of. Because me, I'm still writing.)
( This year in books )
I pretty much did not do book reports this year. School ate me, and then when it spat me out, job-hunting and my sister's wedding and new-jobbing ate me. I have spent an immense amount of time this year being eaten by something or other.
Things I went silly over and/or handsold while I was still regularly at the bookstore: the Dark Tower books, right up to the end; The Bone Key; Nick Sagan's Edenborn; The Dragons of Babel; all three Mike Carey books; The Physiognomy; Life As We Knew It; all, every single one, of the Sean Stewart books, but especially Nobody's Son, which somehow opened up the perfect little black box in which I keep my most treasured things and slipped in without letting anything out, and now it is welded to the most important bits of me and we will never part; and The Year of Numbers, which I may well book report later, because those of you who read non-genre fiction really ought to pick this up. I say this with the startlement and delight you get when you buy the book because you know the author and it turns out to be just impeccably crafted.
There was actually quite a lot of reading in there I was happy with in general, despite me feeling like this was a year where I couldn't find a damn book to read for my life (I am, again, Not The Target Audience for at least this fall's batch of new releases). You'll note there's a lot of backlist in there and a chunk of out-of-genre stuff. I went exploring; what can I say?
My to read shelf is still horrifically light. Hopefully by the time I finish the Bujolds and double back for Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns and Co. (I read series in gulps. I do not wait a year for a new volume, I just wait for them all), they will have made me some books I want to read again.
(The 2008 Grand Metrics wait until the day of. Because me, I'm still writing.)
( This year in books )
I pretty much did not do book reports this year. School ate me, and then when it spat me out, job-hunting and my sister's wedding and new-jobbing ate me. I have spent an immense amount of time this year being eaten by something or other.
Things I went silly over and/or handsold while I was still regularly at the bookstore: the Dark Tower books, right up to the end; The Bone Key; Nick Sagan's Edenborn; The Dragons of Babel; all three Mike Carey books; The Physiognomy; Life As We Knew It; all, every single one, of the Sean Stewart books, but especially Nobody's Son, which somehow opened up the perfect little black box in which I keep my most treasured things and slipped in without letting anything out, and now it is welded to the most important bits of me and we will never part; and The Year of Numbers, which I may well book report later, because those of you who read non-genre fiction really ought to pick this up. I say this with the startlement and delight you get when you buy the book because you know the author and it turns out to be just impeccably crafted.
There was actually quite a lot of reading in there I was happy with in general, despite me feeling like this was a year where I couldn't find a damn book to read for my life (I am, again, Not The Target Audience for at least this fall's batch of new releases). You'll note there's a lot of backlist in there and a chunk of out-of-genre stuff. I went exploring; what can I say?
My to read shelf is still horrifically light. Hopefully by the time I finish the Bujolds and double back for Karl Schroeder's Sun of Suns and Co. (I read series in gulps. I do not wait a year for a new volume, I just wait for them all), they will have made me some books I want to read again.
