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What I read in 2017, July-December
Dec. 28th, 2017 01:44 pm07/03 Death's End, Cixin Liu (hf)
07/21 Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire
07/21 The Delirium Brief, Stross (p)
07/27 A Local Habitation, McGuire
07/31 An Artificial Night, McGuire
08/15 The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
08/24 Friday the Rabbi Was Late, Harry Kemelman
08/28 Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
09/06 Late Eclipses, Seanan McGuire
09/10 One Salt Sea, Seanan McGuire
09/21 Jack LeVine: The Big Kiss-Off of 1944, Andrew Bergman
09/28 The Last Firewall, William Hertling
10/05 The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
10/16 Hopscotch, Brian Garfield
11/11 Hollywood & LeVine, Bergman
11/27 Tender is LeVine, Bergman
12/02 Hard Times in Dragon City, Matt Forbeck
12/15 Buying Time, Joe Haldeman
I was really hoping to get my reading and movie lists done quarterly this year, but that didn’t happen. So here’s the last six months, since there’s no way I’m going to finish another book before the end of the year! My January-March book reviews are here, my April-June are here.
It looks like 42 is the number achieved this year, which is one very good number to achieve. Of the last six months, only one physical book read in the recreational reading category: Charles Stross’ new Laundry Files release: The Delirium Brief. And I finished Cixin Liu’s third book of the Three Body Problem series, which is not the name of the series but is a Hugo Nominee for best novel (didn’t win).
Looking over my list, it would appear that I only read two physical books, the other being Stephen Clarke’s A Year in the Merde. I don’t expect the forthcoming year to be significantly better for physical books. I finished one Project Gutenberg title, an interesting memoir of one of President Lincoln’s body guards called Through Five Administrations.
2017 also saw me vote for the Hugos for the first time, which exposed me to a lot of authors that I never would have heard of otherwise and plan on following. I didn’t vote every category, but of the ones that I did, all of my number one picks won except for best novel. I’ll definitely be doing this in the future, but I won’t be buying my WorldCon membership early enough to nominate works: I don’t read enough new science fiction to have what I would consider an informed opinion.
So on to my comments on the books, under the cut.
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07/21 Rosemary and Rue, Seanan McGuire
07/21 The Delirium Brief, Stross (p)
07/27 A Local Habitation, McGuire
07/31 An Artificial Night, McGuire
08/15 The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu
08/24 Friday the Rabbi Was Late, Harry Kemelman
08/28 Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
09/06 Late Eclipses, Seanan McGuire
09/10 One Salt Sea, Seanan McGuire
09/21 Jack LeVine: The Big Kiss-Off of 1944, Andrew Bergman
09/28 The Last Firewall, William Hertling
10/05 The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
10/16 Hopscotch, Brian Garfield
11/11 Hollywood & LeVine, Bergman
11/27 Tender is LeVine, Bergman
12/02 Hard Times in Dragon City, Matt Forbeck
12/15 Buying Time, Joe Haldeman
I was really hoping to get my reading and movie lists done quarterly this year, but that didn’t happen. So here’s the last six months, since there’s no way I’m going to finish another book before the end of the year! My January-March book reviews are here, my April-June are here.
It looks like 42 is the number achieved this year, which is one very good number to achieve. Of the last six months, only one physical book read in the recreational reading category: Charles Stross’ new Laundry Files release: The Delirium Brief. And I finished Cixin Liu’s third book of the Three Body Problem series, which is not the name of the series but is a Hugo Nominee for best novel (didn’t win).
Looking over my list, it would appear that I only read two physical books, the other being Stephen Clarke’s A Year in the Merde. I don’t expect the forthcoming year to be significantly better for physical books. I finished one Project Gutenberg title, an interesting memoir of one of President Lincoln’s body guards called Through Five Administrations.
2017 also saw me vote for the Hugos for the first time, which exposed me to a lot of authors that I never would have heard of otherwise and plan on following. I didn’t vote every category, but of the ones that I did, all of my number one picks won except for best novel. I’ll definitely be doing this in the future, but I won’t be buying my WorldCon membership early enough to nominate works: I don’t read enough new science fiction to have what I would consider an informed opinion.
So on to my comments on the books, under the cut.
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