I can't add anything to what
rozk has
written about the current awfulness. I am appalled. (This of course was what prompted my post on
identity a few days back.)
To change the subject back to where it ought to have been, in the spirit of
fight_derailing, I've done a backwards audit of my bookblogging since 2004 (the first full year that I blogged every book I read). My PoC authors percentage is not very impressive - 26/1088, 2.4%, with last year being particularly poor (thanks in part to my consumption of all-white Doctor Who novelisations and Shakespeare plays). The relevant books are:
2004 (3/146 books total, 2.1%)
Fermat's Last Theorem Persepolis I Wild Seed 2005 (4/137 books total, 2.9%)
Babel-17 A Personal Matter The Jewel-Hinged Jaw Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide 2006 (8/207 books total, 3.9%)
The Kite Runner Beloved
The God of Small Things Things Fall Apart The Color Purple Never Let Me Go The Einstein Intersection Kapilavastu 2007 (6/235 books total, 2.6%)
The Art of War The Satanic Verses Wild Swans Dhalgren Palace WalkMindscape 2008 (5/363 books total, 1.4%)
A House for Mr Biswas A History of the Arab Peoples Freedom From Fear
The River of Lost Footsteps Contested Lands 2009
none so far (of 52).
I should be able to do better than that. At present I have the following on my unread list:
Non-fiction:
- Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi)
- A Universal History of Numbers (Ifrah)
- Search for a New Somali Identity (Hussein Ali Dualeh)
sf:
- Kindred (Butler)
- Black Juice (Lanagan)
- Cities of Salt (Munif)
- So Long Been Dreaming (Hopkinson)
Comics:
- Persepolis II (Satrapi)
- With The Light (Tobe)
That's a total of nine. I think I can reasonably aim to read all of them, and that same number again, in the rest of this year.
Comments disabled; this is more in the nature of a public note to myself.