And here's February's list. Continuing the usual early-year scramble to get through as many of the 2016 books still on my TBR bookcase as I can before the Hugo nominating deadline. (I will, of course, fail to get through all of them.) Also notable is the late-month attempt to actually read a couple of books by African-American authors during Black ( Read more... )

A good list to start the year. As usual, it helps that I started a couple of things in late December but finished them in January so I count them for 2017.

1. Borderline, Mishell Baker - Gained some note last year for featuring a double-amputee, suicide survivor with borderline personality disorder as its heroine. The first in the Arcadia ( Read more... )

For once right on schedule, here is the last 2016 bookpost. I find it interesting that all six novels I read (or finished) in December were written by women. It's a current goal of mine to increase the number of works written, drawn or edited by women that I read in 2016, which I modestly succeeded in (going from 34 to 42 items) and plan to improve ( Read more... )

And we're up to date! How about that? November's theme was cramming; trying to squeeze in two Cherryh novels before Philcon and three 2016 graphic novels before the deadline for the Goodreads Choice Awards. We will note the eventual winner was not one of the five nominees I got around to reading. Ah well, at least I read five of the nominees, which ( Read more... )

Almost caught up! October's reading was all over the map - some books that have been on the shelf for a long time (Primates and The Apocalypse Door), some 2016 releases (Once Broken Faith and Company Town), the usual pair of magazines, and yet another Zombies Need Brains anthology. I am convinced Joshua Palmatier dreams of breaking Martin H. ( Read more... )

My September reading reflects two key decisions: (1) I should really start working on my Comixology backlog, and (2) I should work some of the piles on my to-be-read bookcase from the bottom up. The four graphic novels are the result of #1; the two non-fiction reads the result of #2.

74. The Killing Joke, Alan Moore (writer), Brian Bolland (artist ( Read more... )

Looking back at August’s list, I realize I only completed two paper books in August - Indexing and Central Station. I started Quiet but hadn't finished it before the end of the month. Everything else I read during the month was in ebook form. Notable among the reads are the 2nd novel set in the universe of K.D Spangler’s excellent webcomic “A Girl ( Read more... )

For the second year in a row, I'll be spending the last month of the year (give or take a day) catching up on bookposts. I’ve gotten waaaaaay behind on those, let alone any sort of posting to LJ. Blame it on too much business travel and (as mentioned last post) all the time and energy spent chasing a toddler around the house. Clearly the middle of ( Read more... )

Yes, it's almost September. Y'all should be getting used to the routine by now. Not surprisingly, a fair amount of Hugo reading. Note my comments are all on the non-Hugo nominees.

49. Engines of War, George Mann

50. Meeting Infinity, Jonathan Strahan - 4th anthology in the Infinity Project. This one didn't grab me as much as its predecessors ( ( Read more... )

And juuuuust sneaking in May's books before we get to July. This is the shortest list so far this year, partly because I managed almost no fiction reading time during Balticon, partly because it took some time to get through the DC Metro history (#47).

42. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, Lois McMaster Bujold - The latest book in the Vorkosigan ( Read more... )