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As I mull over the usual new year stuff (does money from aunts get reported on tax forms? Why is January evil? Why is it sixty-five degrees out? Okay, that's not usual), it occurs to me that there's some business from last year I never finished up: the book list!
I never got around to doing the November list because I didn't finish a single new novel. I checked "Flights" (edited by Al Sarrantonio), a '90's-ish SF anthology whose title I've forgotten, and Dozois' Year's Best 27th or so out of the library, and read pieces of from those volumes. Highlights were "Pat Moore" by, um someone whose name I've forgotten. "The Problem of Susan" by Neil Gaiman was just weird, and the two Nancy Kress stories I read confirmed that Kress comes up with cool ideas that I will never appreciate because I hate her characters so much. Which is a shame, because they're generally really nifty ideas, arg.
I did reread Diplomatic Immunity (Lois McMaster Bujold) over Thanksgiving break, as well as Ethan of Athos after break and through early December.
That was November. Like I said, not much going on except busting butt on classes. Which is exactly how it should be.
( Thanks to the end of classes, December was a bit more lively: nonfiction, Le Guin, Suzette Elgin Hayden. )
2004 reading statistics:
12 nonfiction
32 fiction, new
36 fiction, reread
80 books total. Plus occasional short stories and one abandoned reread.
It seems high, but... I think it could be said that that the family tendency toward addiction has manifested in in my reading. Granted, some of these were very short books (The Silent Gondoliers comes to mind), but some of them were also very long as well, so it likely balances.
I did manage last year's resolution, at least: I read about 11 more nonfiction books in 2004 than in 2003. Yay me!
If I'd gotten around to New Year's resolutions this year, any literary resolutions would've likely been:
1.) More nonfiction
a.) course textbooks and lecture notes are nonfiction, too!
2.) Less fiction. If you had a point to make, it's been amply made.
Which means that today's plan needs to include less Watson and more McMurry.
I never got around to doing the November list because I didn't finish a single new novel. I checked "Flights" (edited by Al Sarrantonio), a '90's-ish SF anthology whose title I've forgotten, and Dozois' Year's Best 27th or so out of the library, and read pieces of from those volumes. Highlights were "Pat Moore" by, um someone whose name I've forgotten. "The Problem of Susan" by Neil Gaiman was just weird, and the two Nancy Kress stories I read confirmed that Kress comes up with cool ideas that I will never appreciate because I hate her characters so much. Which is a shame, because they're generally really nifty ideas, arg.
I did reread Diplomatic Immunity (Lois McMaster Bujold) over Thanksgiving break, as well as Ethan of Athos after break and through early December.
That was November. Like I said, not much going on except busting butt on classes. Which is exactly how it should be.
( Thanks to the end of classes, December was a bit more lively: nonfiction, Le Guin, Suzette Elgin Hayden. )
2004 reading statistics:
12 nonfiction
32 fiction, new
36 fiction, reread
80 books total. Plus occasional short stories and one abandoned reread.
It seems high, but... I think it could be said that that the family tendency toward addiction has manifested in in my reading. Granted, some of these were very short books (The Silent Gondoliers comes to mind), but some of them were also very long as well, so it likely balances.
I did manage last year's resolution, at least: I read about 11 more nonfiction books in 2004 than in 2003. Yay me!
If I'd gotten around to New Year's resolutions this year, any literary resolutions would've likely been:
1.) More nonfiction
a.) course textbooks and lecture notes are nonfiction, too!
2.) Less fiction. If you had a point to make, it's been amply made.
Which means that today's plan needs to include less Watson and more McMurry.
