The Books I Read for Pleasure in 2016

[andpuff]

Continuing my attempt at diversifying my reading...

In 2016, I read 35 books for pleasure which is 5 more than in 2015, so go me. Still not achieving my goal of 52 books a year for pleasure but as I'm fairly certain I read my own Valor series half a dozen times - fyi, start the wiki when you start the series, trust me on this - it's not like I wasn'

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[alessandriana]

but as I'm fairly certain I read my own Valor series half a dozen times

New book? :D :D :D

(I absolutely adore that series!)

[andpuff]

New Peacekeeper book in (I think) June. One more to go.

[wingeddreamer9]

*Happy fanigirl squeal!!*

I love the Valor series more that I can possibly describe. I've lost count of how many times I've read the entire series through, and to the comment about a wiki - haha, I've thought the same! There are a few inconsistencies when it comes to the di'Taykan... just saying. ;)

One of these days I'll actually write the love letter to Torin and crew that pops into my head every time I re-read the series, but I absolutely want to say THANK YOU for giving us such a strong, real, intelligent, HUMAN character in Torin. And for giving us such an amazingly vivid world full of alien races and cultures that feel like they just have to exist somewhere out there in the universe.

Wiki?

[magista]

There's a wiki? Where's the wik?!

I've got the Valo(u)r series in print, e-book, and audio. Every couple of months I cycle through the audio books again at bedtime.

It was /Craig/ who had the Hsan control panel in his ship... :D

Re: Wiki?

[andpuff]

There's no wiki. There SHOULD have been a wiki but at book eight, there doesn't seem to be much point starting. There's about two inches of paper notes though...

You clearly know the books better than I do by now. :)

[ext_3966655]

If you are looking to read more books by Canadian men of colour, may I recommend (if you haven't already read some of their work) Thomas King, Daniel Heath Justice, Lawrence Hill, Drew Hayden Taylor, Wayson Choy and Charles Saunders?

[andpuff]

I read Charles Saunders years ago but the others I don't know. Thanks for the names!

[tibicina]

Psst. 73% + 33% = 110% something is off there. (2015 women/men ratios unless I suppose one of the authors was NB and you were counting them as both?)

[andpuff]

Nope, I'm just bad at math. I'll go fix that now... :)

[e_moon60]

I admire those who keep track of their "outside" reading, but don't do it myself, not on a yearly basis. What I do try to keep track of is re-reading of books that particularly nourish me, whether I read them originally for a class or for pleasure. Given the health problems this year and the political situation as it developed, I did more re-reading and less new reading (for two months re-reading very familiar books was all I could do, and that slowly) but I did read two new books I can recommend for anyone's nonfiction stack: Ed Yong's I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, about micro-ecology inside everything else alive. Yong is a science journalist I've followed on Twitter for several years; he's written for (variously) Scientific American, National Geographic, and The Atlantic (and others.) Hope Jahrens' LAB GIRL is both science and memoir: of being a young female scientist, of being a young female scientist with bipolar disorder, and work both in the lab and in the field. Jahrens is now in Norway, in a new job with a new lab (she was

[andpuff]

I used to reread a lot, at least 50% of what I read was a reread but these last few years, not so much. I don't know what changed.

Thanks for the rec on I CONTAIN MULTITUDES, it sounds fascinating.

And I am 100% with you on the Bronte's.