2014 Reading

[de23]

I read 56 books in 2014, which is not quite up to my 2011 and 2012 totals (63, 59), but much better than last year (29).   Some highlights:

• Finished the Leandros series by Rob Thurman.  An urban fantasy series with lots of bromance, humor, and violence.  Is she writing more?  Nothing on the website.
• Finished the Vorkosigan series (way to rip my

Comments

[soniag]

Yay for good books!

Remind me to bring Lively's A STITCH IN TIME in February. It's my favorite of hers! And I'm not sure how easy it is to find it in libraries in this country.

[de23]

Remember to bring it!
Oh, should I remind you in Feb? :)

[scarym1]

WOW that is a lot of books. I think I read maybe 10 -12 with 6 of them being by Rob Thurman. I have been reading a lot of fanfic but this year I am going to make more of an effort to add more variety to my reading.

I am still waiting for book 5 of the Leandros series so I decided to read her novel CHIMERA. I really enjoyed. Have you read it? I recently saw on her website that she wrote a sequel to it.

[de23]

I've not read CHIMERA yet - I should try out some of her other series since there doesn't appear to be a new Leandros coming out soon.

I am just not horribly into fanfic - I think it's the reading on computer. It's just not relaxing to me, so I don't like reading long things for fun. If someone would publish "the best White Collar fan fic" as a printed book I'd probably eat it up!

[scarym1]

"If someone would publish "the best White Collar fan fic" as a printed book I'd probably eat it up!"

Now that sounds like a great idea. :)

In Stargate fandom quite a few anthologies of SG1 fic were published. I love the two (given to me by Glenda) that I have.

[pellucid]

Interesting! I really loved Wild, despite it not necessarily being the type of book I usually gravitate to, and I found Outlander almost unbearable, despite the fact that it should have ticked all my boxes (time travel! historical fiction! women with agency!). I suppose in each case it came down to style: I've loved Cheryl Strayed since before I knew who she was, when she was anonymously writing the Dear Sugar column for The Rumpus, because her words are just so breathtakingly gorgeous. I think it hardly matters what she's writing about. And Outlander just turned into a book of one damned thing after another, to me, where what should have been perfect elements were ruined by a style that treated the novel as nothing more than a series of plot points. (Though when you say it starts slow--do you mean the entire first book? I did make myself finish it, but I'm not sure I could do more unless assured that it gets substantially better. I wanted to like it so much, but it may just not be for me.)