Book List

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I want to keep a list of all the books I have read this year, in case I ever get time to review them (unlikely).

Finished
Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
The Leisure Seeker - Michael Zadoorian
Man In The High Castle - Philip K. Dick
Love In Infant Monkeys - Lydia Millet
Demon's Covenant - Sarah Rees Brennan
Leviathan - Scott Westerfield
Reading Lolita In Tehran - Azar Nafisi

In progress
Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
Locksley - Nicholas Chase
At The Water's Edge - Carl Zimmer

Next Up
Remarkable Creatures - Tracy Chevalier
Harold and the Pursuit of Happiness -
The Girl Who Played Go

On Hiatus
Cosmos - Carl Sagan

I don't know how it can possibly be that I've only finished five books so far this year. Possibly all the fanfic . . . But Daniel Deronda should count as six!

Comments

[alizarin_nyc]

Daniel Deronda is one of my favorite books ever. I envy you the joy of that read.

[cyanocitta]

ooh, I really loved At The Water's Edge. It's one of those science books that made me go "oh, that's why X thing is like that! Now I understand!" every few pages.

[stultiloquentia]

I found Reading Lolita in Tehran fascinating and confusing. Western culture has colonized almost every corner of the world, and in so many places that's a bad thing, a damaging thing. And here are these women desiring it and fighting for it, as a path to empowerment. For them, the colonizers are the extremist men of their own country, and the disputed territory their own female bodies and minds. A very twisty problem. Can't wait to hear your reaction.

It's also hooking up with thoughts I've been having about fandom as post-colonial space. I.e., how do you (we, women) write about ourselves and things we care about when all the words we have come preloaded with meanings/contexts/allusions/assumptions developed in and by the kyriarchy? How, for eg., can one write a story about robots without, also and perforce, writing about Issac bloody Asimov?

[my_daroga]

Man, I feel I've read hardly anything in... well, maybe years. Movies? Fandom? I don't know.

But I wanted to say, in case I forget, the reason I am wary of the lit journal is that I am hideously embarrassed by my contributions to the last one I was part of, and I don't feel I can write original fiction, and... yeah. It just makes me depressed. But I think it's awesome. The concept is awesome. You and S. are awesome. I am not confident I can be, in that context.

[seraphcelene]

LOL! Really, the only way to get through more is to read popcorn book. I just finished number 26 and the only reason that I've gotten through so many is because of Charlaine Harris.