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bironic ([personal profile] bironic) wrote2019-01-02 08:25 pm

BOOKS read, Jul-Dec

Continued from here.

I've got an unfinished set of book and movie reviews titled "Lightning Round" because it was going to be super quick. It's dated September 23. Ha ha ha. Here is the list anyway. If and when I finish that post, I'll add the links here. ETA: Link added!

24 novels incl. 4 kids’ books, 3 novellas + 1 partial, 7 graphic novel volumes, 4 short story collections + 1 partial, 3 nonfictions, 3 poetry collections, 1 play:

  1. An Unkindness of Ghosts - Rivers Solomon
  2. Trail of Lightning - Rebecca Roanhorse
  3. Guardian angels & other monsters - Daniel H. Wilson
  4. Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead
  5. New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid Erdrich
  6. *Art and Fear - David Bayles & Ted Orland
  7. A Closed and Common Orbit - Becky Chambers ♥

    ** START OF AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE** -- mini-reviews of the below books here
     
  8. Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik ♥
  9. *Whereas - Layli Long Soldier
  10. Strange Practice: A Dr. Greta Helsing novel - Vivian Shaw ♥
  11. Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells
  12. Forget the Sleepless Shores - Sonya Taaffe (acquaintance) -- incomplete
  13. Monstress vols. 1 & 2 - Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda et al
  14. Record of a Spaceborn Few - Becky Chambers
  15. *On the Other Side of Freedom - DeRay Mckesson
  16. Two Mates for the Dragon - Zoe Chant et al
  17. Dreadful Company - Vivian Shaw
  18. The Halloween Tree - Ray Bradbury, illust. Joseph Mugnaini
    (+ A Halloween Treat/Edward Gorey's Ghosts - Edward Gorey)
  19. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie, illust. Ellen Forney ♥
  20. The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas ♥
  21. *When my brother was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz
  22. The Smoking Mirror - David Bowles
  23. Unbeatable Squirrel Girl vol. 8 - Ryan North & Erica Henderson et al ♥
  24. The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline
  25. Exit Strategy - Martha Wells
  26. ✓ The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux transl. Lowell Bair
  27. Descender vol. 6: The Machine War - Jeff Lemire & Dustin Nguyen et al
  28. ✓ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee ♥
  29. ✓ If on a winter's night a traveller (Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) - Italo Calvino transl. William Weaver
  30. Saga vols. 8 & 9 - Brian K. Vaughan & Fiona Staples et al ♥ for 9
  31. ✓ Interpreter of Maladies - Jhumpa Lahiri
  32. My Teacher Is an Alien - Bruce Coville (reread) ♥
  33. My Teacher Fried my Brains - Bruce Coville (reread)
  34. My Teacher Glows in the Dark - Bruce Coville (reread)
  35. Monstress vol. 3 - Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda et al
  36. The Vampire Diaries: The Awakening - L.J. Smith (reread)
  37. The Vampire Diaries: The Struggle - L.J. Smith (reread)
  38. ✓ *Out on the Wire - Jessica Abel
  39. ✓ The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
  40. The Vampire Diaries: The Fury - L.J. Smith (reread)
  41. The Vampire Diaries: Dark Reunion - L.J. Smith (reread)

    ** END OF AUTUMN READING CHALLENGE**
     
  42. The Tea Master & the Detective - Aliette de Bodard -- incomplete
  43. My Teacher Flunked the Planet - Bruce Coville (reread)
  44. The Stars Are Legion - Kameron Hurley
  45. How Long 'Til Black Future Month? - N.K. Jemisin ♥

*nonfiction
✓ Operation Read More Books You've Owned For Ages


Total for the year:
  • 35 novels
  • 8 novellas + 1 partial
  • 12 graphic novel volumes
  • 6 short story collections + 1 partial
  • 9 memoirs & nonfiction
  • 3 poetry collections
  • 1 play

a.k.a. 74 complete + 2 partial, a.k.a. about 25 more books than usual.

Quick-and-dirty demographics:
  • Women & nonbinary: 39 authors/poets + 4 coauthors/illustrators, 31 books
  • Native: 28 authors/poets, 8 books
  • Other non-white: 5 authors + 2 coauthors/illustrators, 7 books
  • Translations: 2 books + some poems


As always, happy to talk about any of these.
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[personal profile] yhlee 2019-01-03 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
*BLINK* I...I'm kind of with Stefan there, WTF? *blink*

You would think that by now, after having read a lot of fanfic, I wouldn't be taken by surprise by things like this. AND YET.