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I spent a lot of the year re-reading old favorites. I had a hard time finding new books that interested me. A lot of those that did are on CRussel's list: The Gathering Edge, To Fire Called, Convergence (though only the Bren half). And I have him to blame for going way past my budget by reading the first Ada Lee novel and racing through the next eight. My library only had the first four and ran out of interest and/or money so I had to buy the rest. One reviewer called them slick, fast-moving escapism and I think that pretty much nails them.
After vowing never to read another in the Imager series by LE Modesitt, I broke down and read the latest one, Assasin's Price, and was pleasantly surprised. Told from the standpoint of a Rex, rather than an Imager, and no military battles. Plus, Modesitt's writing normally has almost as many quirks as Rafael Nadal's serve, but we didn't get many descriptions of meals or women's dresses as usual. True, everyone inclined their heads at every opportunity, but at least nobody "repaired" anywhere. As in, "He repaired to the sitting room and sat in the chair."--a genteelism the author's unaccountably fond of usually.
Jim
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