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| My book-reading fiscal year ends April 30. Here is my report, submitted for your approval. This year I completed 40 books. It would've been more, but the fiscal year ended when I was in the middle of three, and I had to put them all aside to get a fourth read by an interlibrary loan due date. So those will all end up on next year's accounts. For the third year in a row, a pretty great set of books. I'm still catching up, really, from many years spent in college and grad school, when recreational reading was nigh impossible. So my "to-read" list is still miles long, and contains many books I am very eager to get through. Nor does the list really shrink, so it threatens to remain incomplete even as death grows ever closer. My favorite new read of the year was probably Jimmy Corrigan: the Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware. It's a graphic novel, but it counts. I'm happy to have done some RE-reading this year, which I hadn't done in a while. I re-read Ursula Le Guin's The Dispossessed and Asimov's Foundation trilogy, and I'm pleased to report they are both still awesome. Neil Stephenson's Cryptonomicon cemented him as one of my favorite writers, but the man has serious logorrhea. As much as I like him, it's hard to imagine actually undertaking his Baroque Cycle books, which clock in at about 2700 pages. I mean, when it's that or like nine other books, you know? I ticked off six more Hugo winners from the list. (Le Guin and Asimov were winners but they were re-reads, so already tallied.) I've got aboout 30 to go, and seem to get through about 5-7 a year. So I think I'm going to have to postpone the Hugo Award Winner completion party until probably early 2013. I'll let you know.
Highlighted items are favorites of the year. Oh yeah, if any of you are on GoodReads, hit me up on the friend-o-matic. | ||||||||
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