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[skygiants]

I am possibly more behind on booklogging than I have maybe ever been, though some of this list are things I'm holding off on posting about until the next in the series comes out or something like that. Anyway, the usual drill: if you're curious about anything I haven't talked about yet, feel free to comment and ask!


Books read, 2015:

1. Species Imperative, Julie Czerneda
2. Five Little Peppers Midway, Margaret Sidney
3. Five Little Peppers Grown Up, Margaret Sidney
4. The Innocent Mrs. Duff, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
5. Making It Big: The Diary of a Broadway Musical, Barbara Isenberg
6. The Maker's Mask, Ankaret Wells
7. The Hawkwood War, Ankaret Wells
8. The Women Who Raised Me, Victoria Rowell
9. Secrets of a Soap Opera Diva, Victoria Rowell
10. Two for the Lions, Lindsey Davis
11. Dreamsnake, Vonda McIntyre
12. Trade Me, Courtney Milan
13. Who's Afraid?/Widow's Mite, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
14. Tomorrow's Magic, Pamela F. Service*
15. One Virgin Too Many, Lindsey Davis
16. Ode to a Banker, Lindsey Davis
17. Days Of Our Lives: A Complete History of the Long-Running Soap Opera, Maureen Russell
18. Anna Lee: Memoir of a Career on General Hospital and in Film, Anna Lee and Barbara Roisman Cooper
19. The Heiress Effect, Courtney Milan*
20. A Body in the Bathhouse, Lindsey Davis
21. Partner, Rachel Manija Brown
22. The Suffragette Scandal, Courtney Milan*
23. Be Buried in the Rain, Barbara Michaels
24. Two-Faced: Confessions of a Soap Opera Makeup Artist, Timothy Alan
25. The Jupiter Myth, Lindsey Davis
26. The Accusers, Lindsey Davis
27. Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof, Alisa Solomon
28. Hostage, Rachel Manija Brown and Sherwood Smith
29. Solitaire, Kelley Eskridge
30. Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives: Stories from the Trailblazers of Domestic Suspense, ed. Sarah Weinman
31. Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History, ed. Daniel Jose Older and Rose Fox
32. As My World Still Turns, Eileen Fulton
33. Yesterday's Magic, Pamela F. Service
34. Here There Be Dragons, James A. Owen
35. Freedom Is An Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements, Francesca Polletta
36. The Silence of Medair, Andrea K. Host
37. Voice of the Lost, Andrea K. Host
38. And All the Stars, Andrea K. Host
39. Pen Pal, Francesca Forrest
40. A Plague of Angels, Sheri S. Tepper*
41. Fish Tails, Sheri S. Tepper
42. A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, Ben Macintyre
43. Scandal Takes a Holiday, Lindsey Davis
44. The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge
45. The Cloud Roads, Martha Wells
46. Turbulence, Samit Basu
47. See Delphi and Die, Lindsey Davis
48. Resistance, Samit Basu
49. Cordelia's Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold*
50. Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson
51. Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War, Mark Harris
52. The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison
53. Tales and Novels, Volume 9, Maria Edgeworth
54. Saturnalia, Lindsey Davis
55. The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald
56. A Natural History of Dragons, Marie Brennan
57. Sweet Disorder, Rose Lerner
58. Alexandria, Lindsey Davis
59. Human Voices, Penelope Fitzgerald
60. The Summer Tree, Guy Gavriel Kay*
61. The Wandering Fire, Guy Gavriel Kay*
62. The Darkest Road, Guy Gavriel Kay*
63. Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala, Kirsten Weld
64. True Pretenses, Rose Lerner
65. Blue Remembered Earth, Alistair Reynolds
66. The Alchemist's Cat, Robin Jarvis*
67. Half-Resurrection Blues, Daniel Jose Older
68. Mated to the Meerkat, Lia Silver
69. The Serpent Sea, Martha Wells
70. Nemesis, Lindsey Davis
71. Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel
72. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, Mark Harris
73. The Exile Waiting, Vonda N. McIntyre
74. Call It Sleep, Henry Roth
75. Uprooted, Naomi Novik
76. The Siren Depths, Martha Wells
77. Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho
78. Thunder on the Right, Mary Stewart
79. The Word For World Is Forest, Ursula K. LeGuin
80. The Falling World, Martha Wells
81. Miss Marjoribanks, Margaret Oliphant
82. Adaptation, Malinda Lo
83. Inheritance, Malinda Lo
84. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War, Karen Abbott
85. Full Fathom Five, Max Gladstone*
86. Last First Snow, Max Gladstone
87. The Tale of Indigo and Cloud, Martha Wells
88. The Ides of April, Lindsey Davis
89. The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
90. The First Bite Is the Deepest, Elisa Catrina
91. Stories of the Raksura: Volume 2, Martha Wells
92. House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard
93. Ancillary Mercy, Ann Leckie
94. The Street Where I Live, Alan Jay Lerner
95. The Making of The African Queen, Or, How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall, and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind, Katharine Hepburn
96. This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio in Mandate Palestine, Andrea L. Stanton
97. Cygnet, Patricia A. McKillip
98. Witch Week, Diana Wynne Jones*
99. Abigail Adams: Witness to a Revolution, Natalie S. Bober
100. Invitation to the Game, Monica Hughes*
101. A Long Fatal Love Chase, Louisa May Alcott
102. The Scar, Sergey and Marina Dyachenko
103. The Unknown Ajax, Georgette Heyer*
104. Enemies at Home, Lindsey Davis
105. Catherine, Called Birdy, Karen Cushman*
106. The Headless Cupid, Zilpha Keatley Snyder*
107. The Famous Stanley Kidnapping Case, Zilpha Keatley Snyder*
108. Deadly Election, Lindsey Davis
109. The Devil You Know, Mike Carey
110. Bandbox: A Novel, Thomas Mallon
111. Court of Fives, Kate Elliott
112. Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia, Michelle Caswell
113. Dogsbody, Diana Wynne Jones*
114. The Book of the Phoenix, Nnedi Okorafor
115. The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge*
116. Vicious Circle, Mike Carey
117. Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier*


Manga and Graphic Novels read, 2015:
1. Ms. Marvel Vol 1: No Normal, G. Willow Wilson
2-3. Saiyuki 4-5, Kazuya Minekura
4. Nimona, Noelle Stevenson
5-6. Water Tribe, 1-2, Johane Matte

So that's 117 books total (three short of my unofficial goal of 10 books/month), and ... only 6 comics/graphic novels, wow. I really need to up my illustrated media intake next year. I think 17 of the 117 were nonfiction, if I'm counting right, and 13 rereads. 104 new books (plus six new graphic novels) is not terrible. But I am hoping next year will have more books in it.

Comments

[sovay]

74. Call It Sleep, Henry Roth

I am curious what people who weren't me thought of this book!

[skygiants]

My feelings about it were awfully conflicted, which is one of the reasons I never got around to writing it up. I liked some of the prose a whole lot, and the way the Yiddish/English was handled was extremely neat, but being stuck constantly with David drove me right up the wall and out the window. And then I felt guilty for being annoyed at an abused child for spending most of the book sad and frightened and self-centered! But lord, nearly 500 pages is an awful lot of time to spend with someone who is constantly sad and frightened and self-centered with little differentiation.

[coffeeandink]

You did so much bookblogging OMG!

[sovay]

But lord, nearly 500 pages is an awful lot of time to spend with someone who is constantly sad and frightened and self-centered with little differentiation.

That's fair. I didn't have that reaction to David; I liked the language and the impressionistic portrait of New York City so much, it didn't occur to me when recommending it that other people's mileage might vary when it comes to the characters.

[skygiants]

I'm still glad I read it! I think it was worth reading, even though at times it was difficult for me to get through.

[skygiants]

There are so many things I meant to write up that I now don't remember well enough to say anything interesting about! I'm sorry, Vonda N. McIntyre. :(