Comments | shanrina: Books I read this year

shanrina

Books I read this year

Dec 31, 2009 23:13

I read 142 books this year, mostly while Beast-watching. :P Putting them here in a list behind the cut. The ones I liked have a star in front of them, the ones I really didn't like have an X in front of them.

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ibneko January 1 2010, 18:36:05 UTC

Mmmm. I've read less than I liked this year. But... World war Z was fun, although not completely satisfying. How's the magic+technology books by Kelly McCullough (Webmage, Cybermancy, etc)?

shanrina January 2 2010, 03:59:23 UTC

I really liked the first book and the second and third were decent, but by the fourth one I kind of felt like it was getting old--there's kind of one plot expanded out over the course of multiple books, when I think they would have been better served by wrapping that plot up sooner and going into a different one. I also didn't bother trying to get a lot of the computer-y references he put in, though. I'm sure you'd catch a lot more of those than I did.

And yeah, I expected a lot more from World War Z. If I hadn't had such high expectations of it then it probably would have earned a star on this list.

maeve66 May 8 2010, 07:15:45 UTC

I've read some Thrity Umrigar (The Space Between) which I really liked, but I am stuck right now on her hella depressing memoir of childhood. Nightmarish. I'd like to read the one you listed, Bombay Time. I am pretty fascinated by Farsi and Iran, too, and have read Marjane Satrapi's work, as well as Reading Lolita in Tehran, by Azar Nafisi. I liked it so much that I just bought the other one, Things I've Been Silent About. I reread a ton, too, especially YAF, but I've never really gotten into Tamora Pierce's stuff. Now, Dianna Wynne Jones... and Robin McKinley. I'm interested by the book about courtesans (and fish cakes!) in Ancient Greece. And I have that Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors, but I haven't gotten very far in it.