September novel-reading
Oct. 1st, 2006 12:17 amI want to start keeping formal track of the books I read each month (I don't know if I'll reliably do so by posting about it here, but it seems an obvious place). Mostly this is because sometimes, when I try to recall what I've recently been reading, it feels like there's something obvious I'm forgetting, and, though it may or may not be true on any particular occasion, the feeling itches. Probably that sort of itchy uncertainty was somewhere behind the very invention of writing things down.
Here's a list for September, then, by the order I read them; I'm only including novels, for now, though I also read short stories, nonfiction, and graphic novels, which go unmentioned. For some people I know, this would be a normal or a modest amount of reading, and for others a great deal; for me, it's unusually industrious (I've been caught up in an enthusiasm for the libraries, lately).
Here's a list for September, then, by the order I read them; I'm only including novels, for now, though I also read short stories, nonfiction, and graphic novels, which go unmentioned. For some people I know, this would be a normal or a modest amount of reading, and for others a great deal; for me, it's unusually industrious (I've been caught up in an enthusiasm for the libraries, lately).
Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wizard of EarthseaIt was my first time reading all of these. I thought that every one of them was remarkably and uncommonly good, which I was thinking of as a string of particularly nice reading luck for a couple of minutes, before I recalled that the list consists of two classic and beloved series, two of this year's Hugo nominees (one of which won), and the much-anticipated latest from an author I much admire; in other words, I kind of stacked the deck! I might still talk more specifically about some of them later, especially if somebody actually asks me what I thought.
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Tombs Of Atuan
Ursula K. LeGuin, The Farthest Shore
C.J. Cherryh, The Pride of Chanur
Robert Charles Wilsom, Spin
C.J. Cherryh, Chanur's Venture
C.J. Cherryh, The Kif Strike Back
C.J. Cherryh, Chanur's Homecoming
Jo Walton, Farthing
Charles Stross, Accelerando