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.
Hey, evil dead, you're in my seat.
Xander ,'First Date'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Nutty - Jan 11, 2006 8:34:04 am PST #9745 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Betsy HP - Jan 11, 2006 8:44:07 am PST #9746 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
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.
sj - Jan 11, 2006 8:46:28 am PST #9747 of 10002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
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.
sumi - Jan 11, 2006 9:20:59 am PST #9748 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
ita, not only is it new -- it's about vampires.
I haven't read it -- Cybervixen says that it's good.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2006 11:46:06 am PST #9749 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
sumi - Jan 11, 2006 11:49:36 am PST #9750 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
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.
Atropa - Jan 11, 2006 1:53:54 pm PST #9751 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
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.
Consuela - Jan 11, 2006 3:52:38 pm PST #9752 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Katerina Bee - Jan 11, 2006 3:53:53 pm PST #9753 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
There's a new OEB? Hallelujah! And here I've got a Borders gift card burning a hole in my purse. I'm liking Elizabeth Lynn's "Dragon's Treasure," but I've always enjoyed her humanist almost-utopias.
I officially got a big kick out of "Olympos" by Dan Simmons. It made me want to go read some background on Greek mythology. Strangely I had no such desire to explore Proust or recall Shakespeare.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2006 4:05:35 pm PST #9754 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm currently reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I started it in 2005. I'll probably finish it in 2007, at this rate. I do like it, though.