A year in reading material
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I didn't do the big year sum-up post that I have done in previous years, mostly because I was quite a way from a computer that wasn't insanely slow and while I don't feel the need to do the year-end meme (although some of the answers could have been interesting) or the writing sum-up (not a long list), I do like to keep a list of books I've read in the year.
* re-read
Books:
Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Temeraire: Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
America (The Book): A Guide to Democracy Inaction - Writers of The Daily Show
Stardust - Neil Gaiman *
The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K Rowling *
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K Rowling
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S Thompson
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina - Frank Rich
The Lighthouse - P.D James
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Boomsday: A Novel - Christopher Buckley
Armed Madhouse: Whose Afraid of Osama Wolf? The Best Legal Whorehouse in Texas. No Child's Behind Left. And other tales of class warfare in a dying regime - Greg Palast
The Warriror's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story - Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifseto - Chuck Klosterman
Short Stories:
The Mountains of Mourning - Lois McMaster Bujold
Comics:
Planetary: Crossing Worlds - Warren Ellis
Ex-Machina Vol 3: Fact vs Fiction - Brian K Vaughan
Y: The Last Man Vol 6: Girl on Girl - Brian K Vaughan
Y: The Last Man Vol 7: Paper Dolls - Brian K Vaughan
More than in previous years, but still less than I'd like.
Comics, I do still love you, really. Well, if you're written by Brian K Vaughan or Warren Ellis. I should try and get back into them this year, or at least finally get around to finishing Watchmen.
I'd have to say that I really enjoyed almost all that list, with the exception of The Lighthouse, which was just a big eh.
ETA: Shit. I just went back and looked at this list at the end of 2005. That's a list of mostly fantasy books and a hell of a lot of comics. Huh. The non-fiction kicked in in the last couple of years. Why am I not surprised.
And I seem to not have posted one at the end of last year.
I didn't do the big year sum-up post that I have done in previous years, mostly because I was quite a way from a computer that wasn't insanely slow and while I don't feel the need to do the year-end meme (although some of the answers could have been interesting) or the writing sum-up (not a long list), I do like to keep a list of books I've read in the year.
* re-read
Books:
Jonathon Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception - Eoin Colfer
A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K Le Guin
Temeraire - Naomi Novik
Temeraire: Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
America (The Book): A Guide to Democracy Inaction - Writers of The Daily Show
Stardust - Neil Gaiman *
The Great Shark Hunt - Hunter S. Thompson
Tigana - Guy Gavriel Kay
Fragile Things - Neil Gaiman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J.K Rowling *
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K Rowling
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S Thompson
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina - Frank Rich
The Lighthouse - P.D James
Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Boomsday: A Novel - Christopher Buckley
Armed Madhouse: Whose Afraid of Osama Wolf? The Best Legal Whorehouse in Texas. No Child's Behind Left. And other tales of class warfare in a dying regime - Greg Palast
The Warriror's Apprentice - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Vor Game - Lois McMaster Bujold
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story - Chuck Klosterman
Sex, Drugs and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifseto - Chuck Klosterman
Short Stories:
The Mountains of Mourning - Lois McMaster Bujold
Comics:
Planetary: Crossing Worlds - Warren Ellis
Ex-Machina Vol 3: Fact vs Fiction - Brian K Vaughan
Y: The Last Man Vol 6: Girl on Girl - Brian K Vaughan
Y: The Last Man Vol 7: Paper Dolls - Brian K Vaughan
More than in previous years, but still less than I'd like.
Comics, I do still love you, really. Well, if you're written by Brian K Vaughan or Warren Ellis. I should try and get back into them this year, or at least finally get around to finishing Watchmen.
I'd have to say that I really enjoyed almost all that list, with the exception of The Lighthouse, which was just a big eh.
ETA: Shit. I just went back and looked at this list at the end of 2005. That's a list of mostly fantasy books and a hell of a lot of comics. Huh. The non-fiction kicked in in the last couple of years. Why am I not surprised.
And I seem to not have posted one at the end of last year.
