What I read in 2011
Time for my annual roundup of what I read last year.
Total number of titles was way down, although I suspect the number of words and pages was comparable: it was a year of doorstops! I read the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography, then I re-read all of A Song of Ice and Fire, then I read A Dance With Dragons, then I read the first volume ( Read more... )
Total number of titles was way down, although I suspect the number of words and pages was comparable: it was a year of doorstops! I read the first volume of Mark Twain's autobiography, then I re-read all of A Song of Ice and Fire, then I read A Dance With Dragons, then I read the first volume ( Read more... )
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Robin McKinley did warn people in her blog that Pegasus had gone into two volumes, to her great distress. I do not know why publishers fight so hard against admitting up front that there will be another volume. I guess they think people won't buy the book. It's very annoying, however.
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I played Richard Plantagenet in the Henry VI trilogy, and his death in part III inspired me, when I posted to the forum about having uploaded the part, to iambic pentameter:
Find here Richard Plantagenet's ending,
in speaking which I did make shift to leave
no single piece of scenery unchew'd:
(although I left out the line breaks, so I don't know if anyone noticed that it was blank verse.)
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