An Accounting of Things Done and Foregone
I know I haven't done a review of my November books but I couldn't resist looking back to see how many books I've read throughout the year. And damn... my reading time has slowed. But then again, I've also been busy as hell this past year.
So far, the count is 50 books taken up and finished. These are:
- Glen Cook, The Instrumentalities of Night: The Tyranny of Night
- Karen Traviss, Republic Commando: Triple Zero
- Christopher Priest, The Prestige
- Rich Horton: Best Fantasy 2006
- Ted Chiang: Story of your Life and Other Stories
- Cherie Priest: Four and Twenty Blackbirds
- Lydia Morehouse: The Archangel Protocol
- John Scalzi: Old Man's War
- Scott Lynch: The Lies of Locke Lamora
- Steven Pressfield: Gates of Fire
- C.J. Cherryh: Gate of Ivrel
- Leigh Brackett: The Ginger Star
- Lisa Goldstein: Walking the Labyrinth
- Ken Macleod: Newton's Wake
- Gene Wolfe: The Knight
- Paul Witcover: Tumbling After
- Luis Fernando Verissimo: Borges and the Eternal Orangutan
- John Meaney: Bone Song
- Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link, Gavin Grant, editors: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2006
- Paul Park: A Princess of Roumania
- Midori Snyder: The Innamorati
- John Kessel, James Patrick Kelly, editors: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology
- Richard Morgan: Broken Angels
- Jeffrey Thomas: Monstrocity
- Neal Asher: The Skinner
- Harry Harrison: The Hammer and The Cross
- Ellen Datlow and Terry Windling, editors: Salon Fantastique
- Tim Powers: Last Call
- Liz Williams: Snake Agent
- Peter Watts: Maelstrom
- Charles Stross: The Atrocity Archives
- James Rollins: Amazonia
- Chris Roberson: Paragea
- Ramsey Campbell: Midnight Sun
- John Klima, editor: Logorrhea
- Tim Pratt: The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl
- Elizabeth Bear: Blood and Iron
- Tim Pratt: Little Gods
- Brandon Sanderson: Elantris
- Sarah Langan: The Keeper
- Theodora Goss: In the Forest of Forgetting
- John Wright: Fugitives of Chaos
- Jay Lake: Trial of Flowers
- Sarah Monette: Melusine
- Joe Abercrombie: The Blade Itself
- Alfred Bester: The Stars my Destination
- Barry Hughart: Bridge of Birds
- Tobias Buckell: Crystain Rain
- Richard Garfinkle: Celestial Matters
- Patrick o'Leary: The Gift
Update: Seven books I started reading but couldn't finish due to one thing or another. These are:
- Justina Robson: Keeping it Real
- Thomas Wheeler: The Arcanum
- Terry Pratchett: Small Gods
- J. Gregory Keyes: Newton's Cannon
- Chris Wooding: The Weavers of Saramyr
- Kevin Brockmeier: Things That Fall from the Sky
- Ray Vukcevich: Meet Me in the Moon Room
These last books are important for me to note since it seems as I grow older and my reading time slows down, I start to feel unforgiving about what I'm reading. Thus, if I feel like I'm not getting anywhere with a certain book, I'm done with it.
(Another point to remember: that's 7 books I've listed that were un-finishable but I know there were a handful or even more that I wasn't able to finish. A look at my book bin will confirm and update this.)
Ah well, that's age for you.
5 comments:
oh wow... and you say your reading time has slowed this year?
slightly off-topic. Via Manuel L. Quezon III's blog and via Wow Pare is this from the Inquirer.
What is the most popular book read (outside of school) by Filipinos? No, it is not Harry Potter, but the Bible. According to the 2007 National Book Development Board (NBDB) Readership Survey, 67 percent of respondents across the country read the Bible the most, followed by romance or love novels (33 percent), cookbooks (28 percent), comic books (26 percent) and religious or inspirational works (20 percent).
Science (I assume, not fiction), and horror and suspense also figured prominently, the article said.
I'm interested in the Brockheimer book. Ya wanna sell it to me?
:D
This is a slow year,banzai? I'd be happy to get past half the number of books on your list. :) Good run, man. Next time we bump into each other near alcohol,let me buy you a beer!
tessa: Hehe thanks. Yep. For example, this December I've only finished one book, alas, and it's already mid-month.
jego: No surprise there. We were giving out bookmarks at a recent balikbayan fair in market!market! and one kid wanted two bookmarks because they had two bibles at home. *shrugs*
don: Sure. :-) Email or text me.
dodo: Hahaha! Yeah, and I'll buy you one also! ;-)
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