March
6 books
1733 pages

1. The Coast: A Journey Down the Atlantic Shore by Joseph J. Thorndike.
2. The Innkeeper's Song by Peter S. Beagle.
3. The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente.
4. The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane.
5. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy by Karen Abbott.
6. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells.*

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5 books
1318 pages

A dismal month all around -- in reading, in weather, in general life news. I blame myself for getting into the habit of not reading, as well as everything else going on right now that turned my attention span into something more closely related to a squirrel.

1. The Just City by Jo Walton.
2. The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 53 ( Read more... )

5 books
1946 pages

A dismal month for reading, a fault I lay at the feet of Five Weeks in a Balloon, which took a week to finish, and especially Vonda N. McIntyre's The Moon and the Sun, which I don't think I will ever finish. Seriously, that latter book broke the part of my brain that knows how to read. I feel like I have to train myself how to ( Read more... )

11 books in December
2836 pages

A month in which I cracked into some books I'd been looking forward to for a while -- Lin Carter's Year's Best Fantasy Stories series from the '70s -- and found them the book equivalent of schlocky B-movies (or Z-movies), so bad I've gotten hooked on writing hate-reviews. There were some other books too, but right ( Read more... )

10 books
3854 pages

A solid month with some pretty good books and nothing really bad, which helped encourage me to read more (in terms of pages, at least) than in any month since June.

1. The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Volume Two, edited by Gordon Van Gelder.
2. Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious ( Read more... )

10 books
2995 pages

Another month plagued by boredom, a couple dull reads, and an annoying tendency toward wanting other hobbies, such as video games for a couple hours at night, or a Mystery Science Theater 3000 every once in a while. I've also noted a slide toward laziness in my reviews, unless I detested the book enough to have a lot to rant ( Read more... )

I'm amazed that, 20 years after the founding of Amazon.com, there doesn't seem to be an online market for bulk back issues of magazines. I mean, there's backissues.com and thebackissues.com and so on, but I've never found a single issue I was looking for at either site. You can sometimes find individual issues for sale on Amazon, but they're listed ( Read more... )

10 books ( Read more... )

Now that I know Amazon has Kindle editions of Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction anthology going all the way back to 1984, I suddenly (and for the first time) reeeeeeally want a Kindle ( Read more... )

9 books
2843 pages

I'd been doing pretty well until a one-two whammy of going on vacation and attempting to read Wicked knocked me out of the reading game for the past week and a half. Seriously, I haven't finished a book since August 22. I think Wicked broke me, it was that bad. I can't seem to get my brain into the groove of any book now. It ( Read more... )