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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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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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