One of the
activities I’ve been failing at in 2011 is keeping my reading active and
diverse. I’ll probably touch on the subject in my year end posts, but I have
read around twenty books and I am not too proud of that fact. A rather slow and
disorganized year, which has a lot to do with real life, personal rebellion and
the passive nature of the act of reading. The result are titles, which I’ve
been accumulating over the months. Promises I have made to authors to read and
mention their books, not for the sake of hits or promotion [although writers
need the word of mouth to remain alive and well in the public’s memory], but
because I trust my judgment that I’ll enjoy these books and that in one way or another
they will contribute to my development.
Dear readers, meet my books. Dear books, don't cry. You shall be read.
Long Fiction:
1] Empire
State ~ Adam Christopher
2] Shotgun Gravy
~ Chuck Wendig
3] Kultus ~
Richard Ford
4] Wolfsangel ~
M.D. Lachlan
5] I Wonder
What Human Flesh Tastes Like ~ Justin Isis
6] Gorel and
the Pot-Bellied God ~ Lavie Tidhar
7] Osama ~
Lavie Tidhar
8] Alchemy of
Stone ~ Ekaterina Sedia
9] Unseen
World ~ Sean Cummings
10] Funeral
Parlor ~ Sean Cummings
11] Serial
Killers Incorporated ~ Andy Remic
12] High
Society ~ Paolo Chikiamco [graphic novel]
13] Harmonica
and Gig ~ R.J. Astruc
14] The Book
Thief ~ Markus Zusak
15] The Color
Purple ~ Alice Walker
16] The Time
Traveler’s Wife ~ Nancy Niffenegger
17] Regicide
~ Nicholas Royal
18] Infernal
Devices ~ K.W. Jeter
19] Morlock
Night ~ K.W. Jeter
Short Fiction:
1] Like Twin
Stars ~ edited Cecilia Tan & Kelly Clark
2] Hellebore
and Rue ~ edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff
3] Irregular
Creatures ~ Chuck Wendig
4] Subversion
~ edited by Bart Leib
5] Alternative
Alamat ~ edited by Paolo Chikiamco
6] The Weird
~ edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
7] ODD? ~
edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
8] Sourdough
~ Angela Slatter
9] Evolve Two
~ edited by Nancy Kilpatrick
10] The
Grinding House ~ Kaaron Warren
Non-fiction:
1] Jurisdiction
‘in optima forma’ or why Orthodox Slavs had no witch hunts ~ Maria
Schnitter
2] Charms and
magic ~ Iveta Pirtova
3] Prayer
Magic ~ Maria Schnitter
4] Bulgarian
Folk Magic ~ Ivanichka Georgieva
5] Historical
Roots of the Magical Fairy Tale ~ V.Ya.Prop
6] The History
of Sexuality ~ Michel Foucault
7] Hermaphrodites
and the Medical Invention of Sex ~ Alice Dreger
8] Intersex
~ Catherine Harper
9] Almost
Perfect ~ Brian Katcher
10] Time of
Death, Decomposition and Identification ~ an Atlas by CRC Press
11] The
Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture ~ edited by Kam Loule
12] Handbook
of Japanese Mythology ~ Michael Ashkenazi
13] Revenge of
the Penmonkey ~ Chuck Wendig
14] Confessions
of a Penmonkey ~ Chuck Wendig
15] 250 Things
You Should Know About Writing ~ Chuck Wendig
You have the word guys. Tell me what you plan on
reading? How far behind are you on your reading and do you actively plan to
read?
