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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
There's new Butler? Hooray!
I was wondering -- what did people find to be their best reads published in 2005? I never read the book section of any publication, because I don't read in a timely manner. I think I read the latest Harry Potter, the latest Bujold, and if Crusie published in 2005, then hers too. Unless Kat slipped something by me. I'm appalling. Or old school. Whichever.
One of my best reads of the year was definitely The Half-Blood Prince. Also loved Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper, and Crusie's Bet Me, but I think that might have been a 2004 book, officially.
I'm terrible about reading books in the same year they're published. This would be because I almost never buy books in hardcover, and because I'm incredibly clueless about what books are new and what aren't.
Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and Their Victims by Katherine Watson.
Excellent, excellent book: one of those astonishing social histories that take a tiny fragment of a society and use it to shed light on the society as a whole. Also, poison.
I can't recall any fiction that had me dancing up and down. Okay, the new Laurell K. H produced a Dance of Rage, but that doesn't count.
I'm terrible about reading books in the same year they're published.
Me too, but for me it is either because I buy stuff and then let them sit while I read something I bought a couple of years ago or because I wait for them to get the the bargain rack. I almost always buy hardcovers.
ita, not only is it new -- it's about vampires.
I haven't read it -- Cybervixen says that it's good.
Oh, I can't wait. Cool.
It's nice to know readers more avid than I don't operate in a much more timely fashion -- I was flabbergasted at the idea of "keeping up."
Bought A Million Little Pieces? Get your money back.
Thank goodness that you don't have to "keep up" with books!
I discovered the Chalion books in 2005, read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, discoverd the Song of Ice and Fire. . . what else did I read?
I actually spent lots of 2005 NOT reading. This is fairly unusual for me.
ita, not only is it new -- it's about vampires.
ears perk up
Well then, I guess I'll be adding that to the list.
I think the best book I read in 2005 was probably Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Although I think I enjoyed Martha Wells' Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy more.
Once I got to the end, I really respected Elizabeth Bear's Hammered trilogy, although I didn't like them as much as I wish I did.