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Logging into LJ today, I saw the book challenge lj community, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
50bookchallenge in the "Spotlight" sidebar. So the challenge is to read 50 books in a year?
Um, okay? I'm not planning on joining the community, but the notion of keeping track of all the books I've read over the year sounds interesting. Heck, I may even go crazy and not only count new-to-me books, but also the various books I re-read.
I would, of course, use cut-tags to burble about this sort of thing, so the busy and/or uninterested could just skim on by.
The first new book read of the year was The Mislaid Magician (clicky link!) by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. It was all sorts of fun. Ley lines! Steam trains! Magicians! Of course, I also adored Sorcery and Cecelia and The Grand Tour by those authors, so my liking this one was pretty much assured.
(Aaah, the Mannerpunk genre. I love it so. And looking at the wikipedia entry (because that was a clicky link back there), it looks like there are some more authors for me to try out, hurrah! Of course, The Very Best Thing Ever would be if I could find a Mannerpunk vampire novel. C'mon, admit it, isn't that a fabulous notion? Vampires and a comedy of manners and wit!)
The re-reading list for the year so far contains things like Dark Dance by Tanith Lee; Lord of the Vampires (Diaries of the Family Dracul) by Jeanne Kalogridis; and, um, Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton, because my brain was entirely too fuzzy on Saturday night for anything beyond a fluffy, brainless, popcorn-type of book.
(I just realized that by actually talking about what books I've been reading, you people are going to discover just how many silly vampire books I read. Oh dear. You'll still think fondly of me, right? You won't shun me?)
50bookchallenge in the "Spotlight" sidebar. So the challenge is to read 50 books in a year?Um, okay? I'm not planning on joining the community, but the notion of keeping track of all the books I've read over the year sounds interesting. Heck, I may even go crazy and not only count new-to-me books, but also the various books I re-read.
I would, of course, use cut-tags to burble about this sort of thing, so the busy and/or uninterested could just skim on by.
The first new book read of the year was The Mislaid Magician (clicky link!) by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer. It was all sorts of fun. Ley lines! Steam trains! Magicians! Of course, I also adored Sorcery and Cecelia and The Grand Tour by those authors, so my liking this one was pretty much assured.
(Aaah, the Mannerpunk genre. I love it so. And looking at the wikipedia entry (because that was a clicky link back there), it looks like there are some more authors for me to try out, hurrah! Of course, The Very Best Thing Ever would be if I could find a Mannerpunk vampire novel. C'mon, admit it, isn't that a fabulous notion? Vampires and a comedy of manners and wit!)
The re-reading list for the year so far contains things like Dark Dance by Tanith Lee; Lord of the Vampires (Diaries of the Family Dracul) by Jeanne Kalogridis; and, um, Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton, because my brain was entirely too fuzzy on Saturday night for anything beyond a fluffy, brainless, popcorn-type of book.
(I just realized that by actually talking about what books I've been reading, you people are going to discover just how many silly vampire books I read. Oh dear. You'll still think fondly of me, right? You won't shun me?)
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Mannerpunk sounds interesting, like a more manners-centric steampunk. And vampire novels are never bad, in my opinion. I can never find enough! I'm slowly going through the Anita Blake ones, but each book has less plot and more sex. Hm. Have you ever read I, Vampire by Michael Romkey?
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I remember you mentioning a while back that you were going to read Jane Eyre. Have you yet, and, if so, what did you think?
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(Plus, it didn't hurt that I found a copy of Jane Eyre as illustrated by Dame Darcy. All sorts of wacky gothy fun!)
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(Goes and looks on Amazon)
Ewwww. That's dreadful art. There's nothing enticing about it, and Reginald is nowhere to be seen. Nope, I do not approve.
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Geh - tracking the books I read???
This year has been re-reading 3 of the Cherryh atevi novels, and 2 Star Wars novels.
Slightly embarassing. :)
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I'm fascinated by the "brainless" books other smart people like, because I can use suggestions for good unwinding material. Sometimes I want something silly and GOOD. Please do share.
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The only thing I'd feel worthy of shunning would be if you *recommended* LKH's newest Anita Blake books. The old ones are great fun, but the newest ones.... if I wanted to read pornography I could find much better porn than those.
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However, if you DO want what I refer to as "elvenpr0n", LKH's Meredith Gentry series is an endless parade of pretty fey things (and frightening fey things in equal measure), and I've been liking them immensely. The third or fourth book faltered a bit, but the latest one is straight on-target, and ties up a number of hanging plot-ends very satisfactorily. And, no, I'm NOT using that last sentence as a euphemism!!
I'm always interested in new mind-popcorn, so I'll be waiting attentively, chin propped on hands ^_^
BTW, if you enjoyed the mystery/horror/supernatural aspects of LKH's earlier books, I *highly* recommend Jim Butcher's "Dresden Files" series . . . however, DO read them in order, because the books contain dreadful spoilers for the previous volumes if read out-of-order. (Mandatory Disclaimer: I've known Jim for years, met him on an LKH-fan mailing list, in fact . . . but just because I'm a little biased doesn't mean that they're not EXCELLENT books!)
I read a lot more than one book a week, although it's currently pretty evenly distributed between books and comic trade paperbacks. I like the idea of friends doing book reviews in their own journals, it'll be fun to read them and hopefully get some recommendations!!
-- A :D
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Oh and I like silly vampire books, so new suggestions are always welcome !
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::flails with glee:: I would so read this! And Mannerpunk Goth would be so me!!!!!!
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So about that novel you are writing... :)
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The pain of it all can be experienced here (http://www.bhagwanx.com/books/2004/04books.htm), should anyone be interested.
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Currently I am reading:
Crome Yellow, by Aldous Huxley
The Last Hero, by Terry Pratchett (re-read)
and am actually going to get through a few books that I started a while a back and have yet to finish. Dammit, I will get back to them this year, maybe even this month!
and I just finished re-reading Lords and Ladies the other night.
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I certainly won't shun you. You often mention reading trashy vampire novels, so I'm curious to see which ones they are.
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hee heee
Plus, since it is my addiction I thought it might be a good idea to keep actual track of how many book I buy... so I made a list of what I was going to buy in 2007 from my normal authors and ohhhh it is way over 52...or 104...
So I am a book addict!!! I hope that they do not have calories....