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Old 01-01-2017, 05:44 AM   #25126
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Happy 2017, everyone.

My last read of 2016 (for pleasure): Drawing Conclusions (Commissario Brunetti series, #20). Not one of Barbara Leon's better books; nonetheless, I highly recommend this Venice-based detective/crime fiction series.

My penultimate read of 2016 (for pleasure): The End (The Enemy series, #7), by Charlie Higson. I highly recommend this London-based, post-apocalyptic zombie horror series.
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Old 01-01-2017, 01:32 PM   #25127
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So I just finished Peter Robinson's 23rd DCI Banks novel, When the Music's Over (although Banks was just promoted to Detective Superintendent so I guess it should be DS Banks?). Anyway, I always enjoy books in the series (usually a 4/5) but this was one pretty spectacular. Very good and thoughtful with a difficult issue (draws on the recent scandals in the UK regarding the sexual abuse of children).

I am about to start Stephen King's The Dead Zone, which I am looking forward to.
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Old 01-01-2017, 11:01 PM   #25128
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Finished The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill. It was... good. Written differently, and not something that sucked me in and gripped me, but I still enjoyed it quite a lot.
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Old 01-02-2017, 10:06 AM   #25129
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The Toughest Warriors in Tokyo
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great continuation of the Eyeshield 21 manga series and a wonderful way to start the year off.
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Old 01-02-2017, 09:59 PM   #25130
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Well, I tried to read The Girl on the Train, but it was just too depressing. So I decided to read something less so and went with The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (what's with me and these books with ridiculously long titles?). Anyway, this book is sort of a Swedish Forrest Gump (I'm reading the English translation, of course), and I am finding it pretty funny.
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Old 01-03-2017, 12:24 AM   #25131
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I've been taking decent-sized whacks at Mount Tsundoku every day so far this year, clearing four graphic novels each day. New Year's Day was Captain Marvel Day (the three 2014-2015 collections and the first post-Secret Wars arc), but today was more of a mixed bag: Spider-Man/Silk: The Spider(Fly) Effect, Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet, X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga, and Deadpool: Secret Invasion. (I picked up several Deadpool collections on sale when the movie came out, and the rest I got on sale at the end of the year.)

Not sure what I'll tackle today, but I want to keep the trend going through the end of the week if I can manage it. (My 2017 challenge is set at 140 books. Getting through 28 in a week would put me substantially ahead of the game.) The smart money today's probably on more Deadpool or some Star Wars... but probably not a combination. I've been wishing the last couple of issues of the current Afterlife with Archie arc would come out so I could read that in one pass, but the last issue I've seen was published in August. It's good stuff, just... slow. Reminds me of the early days of Image, actually.
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Old 01-03-2017, 09:51 AM   #25132
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John Ringo & Larry Correia
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Reading this reminded me of why I don't read much Ringo at all.
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Old 01-04-2017, 05:42 AM   #25133
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Watership Down by Richard Adams. After he passed away, I found the kindle edition for $5. This is my first read of it, and I'm liking it.
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Old 01-04-2017, 07:00 AM   #25134
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Now I am sure I will not be reading anything for next two days. So the next read will be decided in the next year.
Finished my first book of 2017, Vimana by Mainak Dhar. A science fiction interwoven with Hindu mythology. Interesting read.

Next I am planning to take Under the Dragon's Tail by Maureen Jennings.
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Old 01-04-2017, 11:30 AM   #25135
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Watership Down by Richard Adams. After he passed away, I found the kindle edition for $5. This is my first read of it, and I'm liking it.
I recommend reading Tales From Watership Down after you finish. I cry through each story. However I would not change anything about either. I have read them more times than I can remember.
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Old 01-04-2017, 12:07 PM   #25136
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I don't do reading challenges but here is what I read in 2016 according to Goodreads. (I don't use Goodreads to track re-reads)

https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_...s/2016/1637717

2015 for comparison:
https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_...s/2015/1637717

And a list of short stories from 2016, which I made from memory recently and is incomplete.

Spoiler:
900 Grandmothers by R. A. Lafferty*
The Great Wall of Mexico by John Sladek
The Human Chair by Edogawa Rampo
The Game of Smash and Grab by Kelly Link
The Spider by Hanns Heinz Evers*
Second Variety by Philip K. Dick
The Coffin Cure by Alan E. Nourse
The Ugly Bird by Manly Wade Wellman
Love Is the Plan, the Plan Is Death By James Tiptree Jr.
The Screwfly Solution by James Tiptree Jr.
The Mansion of Forgetfulness by Don Mark Lemon
The Thames Valley Catastrophe by Grant Allen
Vaster than Empires, and More Slow by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin*
The Martian Way by Isaac Asimov
The Women Men Don't See by James Tiptree Jr
Babette's Feast by Isak Dinesen*
The Variable Man by Philip K. Dick
Crimes and Glory by Paul McAuley
The Voices by Edward Wellen
The Wife's Story by Ursula le Guin*
The Father-thing by Philip K. Dick
My Favorite Murder by Ambrose Bierce
Faith of Our Fathers by Philip K.Dick
A Good Story Is Hard to Find by George Allen England
As Easy As A.B.C. By Rudyard Kipling
Semley's Necklace by Ursula K. le Guin
The Tartarus of Maids by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ma'ame Pélagie by Kate Chopin
The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving
In Dark New England Days by Sarah Orne Jewett
Thurlow's Christmas Story by John Kendrick Bangs
The Dead Valley by Ralph Adams Cram
Who Can Replace a Man by Brian Aldiss
O Ugly Bird by Manly Wade Wellman
The Lottery of Babylon by Jorge Luis Borges
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Old 01-04-2017, 05:17 PM   #25137
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My impromptu "start the year with four graphic novels a day for a week" plan is proceeding apace. I'm going to be scraping the bottom of my comiXology collection on Saturday, but so far, so good.

Sunday: the four most recent Captain Marvel collections
Monday: Deadpool, Spider-Man/Silk, X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga
Tuesday: more Deadpool and a Justice League Elseworlds
Wednesday: three Darth Vader collections and Batman: The Doom that Came to Gotham

Coming soon: Serenity, Guardians of the Galaxy, more Batman and Elseworlds, Spider-Man: Blue, assorted Marvel events.
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Old 01-04-2017, 05:32 PM   #25138
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I finished my first book of 2017: Helliconia Summer by Brian W Aldiss. This is the second book in the Helliconia trilogy, about a planet with very wide variations in climate over a couple of thousand years. I read the first one a couple of months ago, and I'll need to read the third soon. I need them for my chronological SF challenge, and also for my BSFA winners challenge, although this middle episode was a runner-up.

I quite enjoy them, but they seem like hard work. They're SF that reads a lot like fantasy, with low-tech societies, and kings and queens, and even a hint of the fantastical, but the tone is not like modern fantasy. There's a lot of digression, some info dumping, and a fair amount of melodramatic passion. Odd, but enjoyable.

Next up is Bernard Cornwell's The Bloody Ground, I think. One of the books I was hoping to fit in last year and didn't manage to. This the fourth, and currently last, of his US civil war series. I'm sort of glad I'm not too spoilered by knowing the actual history.
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... more Batman and Elseworlds,...
Any particular titles on tap? I really like Elseworld stories...
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Old 01-05-2017, 04:16 AM   #25140
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next up: Analog SFF for Jan/Feb 2017. Analog have had a double issue for Jan/Feb for some time now. I don't know yet whether they too have gone to all double issues.
As usual, a collection of good stories. It looks like Analog is remaining on it's ten issues/year schedule, but I'll only be sure of that when the March issue turns up, not a March/April issue!

The cover-story novella, "The Proving Ground" by Alex Nevala-Lee, was an interesting ecological unexpected side-effects story.

There were four novellettes:
"Twilght's Captives" by Christopher L. Bennett was a well done distant-future culture clash between humans and aliens.
"The Shallowest Waves" was near-future human interest and space exploration in two time periods. It didn't do it for me.
"After the Harvest, Before the Fall" is a distant future dystopia of humans farmed for replacement bodies. It just didn't make sense to me.
"Whending My Way Back Home" continues (or starts?) the adventures of Martin and his AI companion Archie as they try to manipulate time to get back their home time stream. It will be better when put in novel form with other episodes.

Ten(!) short stories, of which my favourites were "Briz" by Jay Werkheiser and "Dall's Last Message" by Antha Ann Adkins, which were both alien-only stories.
The Probability Zero "Throw Me a Bone" was a fun paleontology story.

The various non-fiction was OK, but I skipped the poetry as usual.

Next up: Grantville Gazette #69
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