racking up the list

Actually, with maybe one or two books I've forgotten (because they were that forgettable), here's what I squeezed into my brain managed to read in the past year. Yowser. Plus, comments, just because, but trying to be fair whenever possible. (Besides, if you have recommendations for me, this'll tell you what did, and did not, appeal to me & why.)

EDIT: forgot one. Tells you something that I'd blocked out memory so thoroughly of it. Added it to end of fiction list.( Wow, wait, I read that much? Holy pogo sticks, Batman. )

I suspect I'm missing a few, here and there (probably in the nonfiction category mostly), but hey. Wow. That's quite a bit, considering I didn't really start reading this year until about March, when I started working (and thus had money, and lunchtime, to burn).

Part of the reason I read so much was a) this 52-book challenge going around, which prompted much moaning from participants that they'd never, ever get that many books read! And b) the realization that if I'm going to keep from treading the same tired tropes myself, I need to be aware of what's out there. It's not competition per se, so much as "what is being read/sold".

I was going to ponder what I'd learned from what I've read, but I'll save that for a later post. Now I just need a chance to boggle.

I have discovered a NEW DISEASE! Worship me!

I say we create a new wiki page to discuss a newly-identified syndrome, which I suggest we name after its two most prominent victims: Rice-Hamilton disorder.

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Rice-Hamilton disorder (RHD) is a very rare authorial egotistical disorder (AED), but is controllable if caught in time and treated properly. It is the least common of the genre-specific authorial infections (GSAI); it appears to strike female authors exclusively. There are no known male cases.

( What, you thought I'd stop there? Fools! )

Why, yes, as a matter of fact, I do crack myself up.