my reading this year...

[ratcreature]

The memes where people list what books they've read the past year always end up really pathetic looking for me, because the bulk of my reading is fanfic, not actual books. So there's never much to show off. This year the handful of dead-tree fiction I've read was:

All nine volumes of the Dresden Files, by Jim Butcher, i.e. Storm Front, Fool Moon, Grave Peril, Death Masks, Blood Rites, Dead Beat, Proven Guilty, and White Night

Empire of Ivory, by Naomi Novik (and I've reread the previous parts, i.e. His Majesty's Dragon, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)

Tintenherz, by Cornelia Funke

Camouflage, by Joe Haldeman

The Dispossessed, by Ursula LeGuin

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, by J.K. Rowling

The Sparrow, by Mary Doria Russell

I've also reread Dune again.

I started reading The Years of Salt and Rice, by Kim Stanley Robinson, but for some reason I put it aside (iirc it started slow? I don't really remember), and then I couldn't extend the time I loaned it from the library because someone else had reserved the book, and so I never finished it.

And I read three SGA tie-in novels, though I'm not sure whether those don't count more as fanfic:
The Chosen, by Sonny Whitelaw and Elizabeth Christensen
Entanglement, by Martha Wells
Exogenesis by Sonny Whitelaw and Elizabeth Christensen

Right now I'm in the middle of Fire Logic, by Laurie J. Marks, so I expect I'll finish that this year as well.

OTOH using my del.icio.us bookmarks, which overwhelmingly are just a log of my fanfic reading (though some are tagged as "to read"), to estimate the number of fanfics I read this year, that comes up to well over a thousand. Okay, so most of those are short stories, but some were awesome novels and novellas. Most recently Judas Doesn't Answer by Auburn (ca. 75,700 words), which is a gripping SGA/SG-1 mystery/suspense story I can definitely rec.

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my reading this year - ratcreature

[maxinemayer.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty impressed by your reading list for 2007! You did quite well, considering the amount of fanfic you read in addition to the "hard copy" books! I've never kept track of what I read but I can see that it's a good idea and I'm going to take a stab at keeping a list so I can do "the year in review-2008!" I'm sure this will inspire me to read more somewhere other than on the computer (although I recently found that some of the books of Trollope that I was hoping to get to are available for free on the web). Before I retired I read a lot on the bus to work (one hour each way) and at lunchtime. But since then my reading has been more sporadic.

Thanks for the good idea and happy holidays to you and yours. Love, max

Re: my reading this year - ratcreature

[ratcreature]

I mostly read books on public transport as well. At home I'm more likely to read on the computer, but books are just more portable than anything electronic. I mean, I have a old PDA that I can upload fiction to, but it is more hassle with transferring things, and since I don't really use it as calendar all that much, I forget to keep it charged. Thankfully you don't run into that problem with books.

Happy holidays to you too!