slipped your head inside the crown
This is such a weird week, right? The last week of the year, sort of a liminal space between the end and the beginning, bookended by holidays and quiet at work if you're lucky.
And we're right in the middle of it, which means Wednesday, which means books!
What I've just finished
Nothing, bookwise. Mostly I've just been reading fic.
What I'm reading now
Still Spin, though I also received Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen in hardcover (it's a great gift, but I'm not lugging that thing around), and started reading it on the ride home on Monday. Given that it's a huge hardcover though, I don't know when I'll get around to finishing it.
What I'm reading next
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I haven't read any of Carrie Fisher's books, though they've been on my list for a while, so I will probably get on that now.
Since it's the end of the year, I guess it's time for some stats?
I finished 100 books this year (counting rereads and comics) which I feel is a good number, even if it's not quite as many as I might have hoped.
The best book I read this year, for sheer strength of writing, was A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. What a brilliantly written book.
My top five for the year would be:
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott
Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone
Runners up:
Abhorsen by Garth Nix
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
Bloodline by Claudia Gray *sobs*
Ahsoka by EK Johnston
A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
In nonfiction, the best things I read were:
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge by Antony Beevor
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Pasan
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
And hands down, the best comic I read this year was Kieron Gillen's Darth Vader. It's complete now, so you have no reason not to pick it up.
I would also recommend Grayson now that it's finished, and if you can deal with new 52 weirdness and some characterization wobbles, Batman and Robin Eternal because ROBINS! CASS! STEPH! Though you also have to deal with having Azrael shoved down your throat and also the authors' desperate and inexplicable love for Harper Row. To me it was worth it for the Dick-Jay-Tim-Babs interactions.
I read a lot of books this year, and yet somehow, my to-be-read list never gets any shorter. *g*
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And we're right in the middle of it, which means Wednesday, which means books!
What I've just finished
Nothing, bookwise. Mostly I've just been reading fic.
What I'm reading now
Still Spin, though I also received Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen in hardcover (it's a great gift, but I'm not lugging that thing around), and started reading it on the ride home on Monday. Given that it's a huge hardcover though, I don't know when I'll get around to finishing it.
What I'm reading next
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I haven't read any of Carrie Fisher's books, though they've been on my list for a while, so I will probably get on that now.
Since it's the end of the year, I guess it's time for some stats?
I finished 100 books this year (counting rereads and comics) which I feel is a good number, even if it's not quite as many as I might have hoped.
The best book I read this year, for sheer strength of writing, was A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. What a brilliantly written book.
My top five for the year would be:
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Six of Crows/Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
City of Blades by Robert Jackson Bennett
The Poisoned Blade by Kate Elliott
Four Roads Cross by Max Gladstone
Runners up:
Abhorsen by Garth Nix
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
Bloodline by Claudia Gray *sobs*
Ahsoka by EK Johnston
A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
In nonfiction, the best things I read were:
Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge by Antony Beevor
The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports by Jeff Pasan
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World's Most Precious Manuscripts by Joshua Hammer
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton
And hands down, the best comic I read this year was Kieron Gillen's Darth Vader. It's complete now, so you have no reason not to pick it up.
I would also recommend Grayson now that it's finished, and if you can deal with new 52 weirdness and some characterization wobbles, Batman and Robin Eternal because ROBINS! CASS! STEPH! Though you also have to deal with having Azrael shoved down your throat and also the authors' desperate and inexplicable love for Harper Row. To me it was worth it for the Dick-Jay-Tim-Babs interactions.
I read a lot of books this year, and yet somehow, my to-be-read list never gets any shorter. *g*
***
This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/897372.html.
people have commented there.