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2017 Literature
- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
- Sutphin Boulevard, Santino Hassell
- The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae
- Lily and the Octopus, Steven Rowley
- Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli
- You Can't Touch My Hair, Phoebe Robinson
- Swing Time, Zadie Smith
- Trainwreck, Sady Doyle
- Sondheim, Ethan Mordden
- Why I Am Not a Feminist, Jessa ( Read more... )
- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi
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Virgins have written some RESPLENDENT books
Books of 2016!
Looking back over the 2015 list, it really disturbs me how little I remember of some of them. It's led by Old Man's War, which I told someone just a few weeks ago I hadn't read, even though a little bit later in the conversation I began to realize that that wasn't true. Also: A Single Man, which I saw in the bookstore last month ( Read more... ) -
Hope we're not still saying these things this time next year
Ahoy, books of 2015!
- Old Man's War, John Scalzi
- On the Line, Robert Viagas, Baayork Lee, and Thommie Walsh
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman
- Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie
- The Paying Guests, Sarah Waters
- Not That Kind of Girl, Lena Dunham
- Changed for Good, Stacy Wolf
- 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, Sarah Ruhl
- The First Fifteen ( Read more... )
- Old Man's War, John Scalzi
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I read to live
Books I read in 2014. Only fifty last year, which is a low since I started keeping track. But I have high hopes for this year!
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
- The Absolute Sandman, Neil Gaiman
- The Absolute Death, Neil Gaiman
- Lovers and Friends, Dodie Smith
- Prude, Emily Southwood
- Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli
- In the Land of Invented ( Read more... )
- The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
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Here we are again
Books 2013!
- The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
- A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers
- Where'd You Go, Bernadette, Maria Semple
- This One Is Mine, Maria Semple
- The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears
- Everything Was Possible, Ted Chapin
- The Half You Don't Know, Peter Cameron
- Under the Harrow, Mark Dunn
- The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
- The Ides of March, ( Read more... )
- The Age of Miracles, Karen Thompson Walker
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New year
List of books 2012!
- The Tragedy of Arthur, Arthur Phillips
- Down and Out in Paris and London, George Orwell
- Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire
- Was, Geoff Ryman
- Paradise Tales, Geoff Ryman
- Firebird, Mark Doty
- In Memory of Angel Clare, Christopher Bram
- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
- Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon
- Getting Over Homer, Mark O'Donnell
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- The Tragedy of Arthur, Arthur Phillips
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Old year
Okay, here's the 2011 booklist. I tried doing it on Blogger but it alphabetizes my list and otherwise makes it ugly. So the order in which I read these books is lost to history ( Read more... ) -
Until we meet again
Okay, friends, it's official. I've subscribed to all my LJ friends who still update (all one of them) on Google Reader, which means that today, after eight years of checking my friends page every single day, I can remove it from my bookmarks entirely. For the moment I've resumed blogging at coloredbook.blogspot.com for now; I'm trying to invent a ( Read more... ) -
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I feel like I’ve gotten into the habit of lying habitually when I’m turning people down for things, either because my real reasons for declining are impolite/implausible or because I'm too lazy to plumb the depths of my psyche to figure out what that reason is. But today in the rush to get out of the movie theater when I mentioned my eagerness to ( Read more... ) -
January
Overheard yesterday: "Oh, look! Another tree Santa forgot to bring back to the forest!" ~ mother to child, on the extraordinary number of discarded Christmas trees on our block. I'm starting to wonder if lying to our children about Santa isn't indeed a slippery slope, particularly if our liberal guilt now indicts us for the killing of Christmas ( Read more... )