Looks at Books, 2009

[bill_leisner]

Yes, it's time for BLOG's Fifth Annual Reading Roundup! Spending most of the year without full-time employment allowed for one of the biggest reading years on record, having consumed 45 books, including two short story anthologies and one short book of non-fiction essays

Comments

[daytonward]

First book of 2010: my newly acquired copy of the anthology Space Grunts, by a bunch of wannabe hacks...

So, you're the one who bought it.

[kvaadk]

When I say I grew up in Florida or that I'm a Floridian, I mean the Florida of Travis McGee. Not "the thing hanging off the front of America" it is today. I left home in 1972 and did not recognize the place I last visited (when we took our children on the obligatory hajj to Disney World in the mid-90s).

For me those novels, particularly the early ones, are both the template for first-person detective fiction, they're time travel vacations.

[amysisson]

Totally agree with your assessment of both The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry.

Happy New Year!