iRead, iSaid: My 2008 book-readin' tally
Time to list the books I finished last year:
January
The Empire Strikes Back -- novelization by Donald F. Glut
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man -- the complete run by Peter David and artist Todd Nauck
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets -- David Simon
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Q&A -- Keith R.A. DeCandido, here on LJ as kradical
February
Brian Michael Bendis's Total Sell-Out
Triads -- Poppy Z. Brite (docbrite) and Christa Faust (faustfatale)
Beowulf: The Script Book -- Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary
R Is For Rocket -- short stories by Ray Bradbury
Gifts -- Ursula K. LeGuin
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon -- Stephen King
March
Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain
April
Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
Raiders of the Lost Ark -- novelization by Campbell Black
Dolores Caliborne -- Stephen King
The View From Serendip -- essays by Arthur C. Clarke
Money Shot -- Christa Faust (faustfatale) for Hard Case Crime
May
Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution that Shaped a Generation -- Marc Fisher
Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House -- Keith R.A. DeCandido (kradical)
Guilty But Insane -- essays by Poppy Z. Brite (docbrite)
June
Planetary: All Over the World and Other Stories -- -- Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday
Night Shift -- short stories by Stephen King
Wolfshead -- weird-fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard
July
Naked In Death -- Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb
Meg -- Steve Alten
Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming -- Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley
Serenity: The Official Visual Companion -- movie scripts plus essays, by Joss Whedon
Drawing Blood (preferred-by-author title: Birdland) -- Poppy Z. Brite (docbrite)
Alien: Resurrection -- script by Joss Whedon
The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1: The Field Guide -- Tony DiTerlizzi amd Holly Black (blackholly)
August
Wake of the Whale -- coffee table book on whales, text by Kenneth Brower, photographs by William R. Curtsinger
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone: Thrilling Tales from the Supernatural, especially written for young people -- adapted by William B. Gibson, published 1963
Animal Farm -- George Orwell
A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on 25 Years of Star Wars -- edited by Glenn Kenny
The Stand -- 1980's only slightly updated (but still 817-page) edition, by Stephen King. (Note: this was a 1988 paperback I later mailed this copy to my friend blubeagle. Later that year, I found a surprisingly cheap Book Club edition of the original 1978 hardcover, and gave that to docbrite.)
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog -- John Grogan
September
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales -- edited by Michael Chabon
The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale -- Michael Bamberger
Treasure Island -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Deathless -- Keith R.A. DeCandido (kradical)
October
Tigerheart -- Peter David
November
...whoa. I didn't finish a single book that month. That's odd for me.
December
The City and the Stars -- Arthur C. Clarke
Mascot to the Rescue! -- Peter David, with illustrations by Colleen Doran
The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies that Turn Us On -- edited by Jami Bernard
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born and The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home -- Robin Furth, Peter David, Jae Lee, and Richard Isanove, comic book adaption/expansion of Stephen King's The Dark Tower
The Colorado Kid -- Stephen King
Okay, that makes -- *goes off to count* -- 45 books I finished in '08.
Still in progress: Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.
January
The Empire Strikes Back -- novelization by Donald F. Glut
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man -- the complete run by Peter David and artist Todd Nauck
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets -- David Simon
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Q&A -- Keith R.A. DeCandido, here on LJ as kradical
February
Brian Michael Bendis's Total Sell-Out
Triads -- Poppy Z. Brite (docbrite) and Christa Faust (faustfatale)
Beowulf: The Script Book -- Neil Gaiman and Roger Avary
R Is For Rocket -- short stories by Ray Bradbury
Gifts -- Ursula K. LeGuin
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon -- Stephen King
March
Kitchen Confidential -- Anthony Bourdain
April
Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
Raiders of the Lost Ark -- novelization by Campbell Black
Dolores Caliborne -- Stephen King
The View From Serendip -- essays by Arthur C. Clarke
Money Shot -- Christa Faust (faustfatale) for Hard Case Crime
May
Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution that Shaped a Generation -- Marc Fisher
Star Trek: Klingon Empire: A Burning House -- Keith R.A. DeCandido (kradical)
Guilty But Insane -- essays by Poppy Z. Brite (docbrite)
June
Planetary: All Over the World and Other Stories -- -- Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday
Night Shift -- short stories by Stephen King
Wolfshead -- weird-fiction short stories by Robert E. Howard
July
Naked In Death -- Nora Roberts writing as J.D. Robb
Meg -- Steve Alten
Bring Me the Head of Prince Charming -- Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley
Serenity: The Official Visual Companion -- movie scripts plus essays, by Joss Whedon
Drawing Blood (preferred-by-author title: Birdland) -- Poppy Z. Brite (docbrite)
Alien: Resurrection -- script by Joss Whedon
The Spiderwick Chronicles Book 1: The Field Guide -- Tony DiTerlizzi amd Holly Black (blackholly)
August
Wake of the Whale -- coffee table book on whales, text by Kenneth Brower, photographs by William R. Curtsinger
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone: Thrilling Tales from the Supernatural, especially written for young people -- adapted by William B. Gibson, published 1963
Animal Farm -- George Orwell
A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on 25 Years of Star Wars -- edited by Glenn Kenny
The Stand -- 1980's only slightly updated (but still 817-page) edition, by Stephen King. (Note: this was a 1988 paperback I later mailed this copy to my friend blubeagle. Later that year, I found a surprisingly cheap Book Club edition of the original 1978 hardcover, and gave that to docbrite.)
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog -- John Grogan
September
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales -- edited by Michael Chabon
The Man Who Heard Voices: Or, How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career on a Fairy Tale -- Michael Bamberger
Treasure Island -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Deathless -- Keith R.A. DeCandido (kradical)
October
Tigerheart -- Peter David
November
...whoa. I didn't finish a single book that month. That's odd for me.
December
The City and the Stars -- Arthur C. Clarke
Mascot to the Rescue! -- Peter David, with illustrations by Colleen Doran
The X List: The National Society of Film Critics' Guide to the Movies that Turn Us On -- edited by Jami Bernard
The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born and The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home -- Robin Furth, Peter David, Jae Lee, and Richard Isanove, comic book adaption/expansion of Stephen King's The Dark Tower
The Colorado Kid -- Stephen King
Okay, that makes -- *goes off to count* -- 45 books I finished in '08.
Still in progress: Katherine Dunn's Geek Love.