The books of yesteryear
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avreliaAs usually I started put the book I read on Goodreads, then forgot about it, then in December tried to remember what I read.
Overall, there were several trends in my reading.
First – me scrambling to read books chosen in my bookclub(s), even chosen by me. And I haven’t finished half of them.
Second – me scrambling to find books in Russian I really wanted to read. Well, I found one amazing online bookstore that sells newly published Russian books. The Russian online bookstores stopped delivering to USA and accepting Visa, for obvious reasons, but there are now new bookstores. And there were some really cool books published. And, yeah, it is insane to scramble to find a paper book, when I could buy (or not-buy) an e-book. Well. Here I am.
Third – me actually reading whatever caught my fancy. Last year my fancy caught a lot of books about dead people and fairies. What a year!
So, the most memorable books of year 2023 (non-Russian ones)
1) Holly Black’s Fairy books. Cruel Prince trilogy, The Stolen Heir, Tithe.
2) Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
My favorite of the fairy books. I loved Emily, and I love Wendell, and I loved the tone of the book
3) T. Kingfisher. Various books, some re-reads, some not.
Those are my comfort read, even the horror and the children’s ones.
4) T.L Huchu Edinburgh Nights novels (all three published so far)
5) Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
6) Alexandra Horowitz The year of the Puppy an Inside of a Dog.
7) Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
8) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
9) Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
10) Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Overall, there were several trends in my reading.
First – me scrambling to read books chosen in my bookclub(s), even chosen by me. And I haven’t finished half of them.
Second – me scrambling to find books in Russian I really wanted to read. Well, I found one amazing online bookstore that sells newly published Russian books. The Russian online bookstores stopped delivering to USA and accepting Visa, for obvious reasons, but there are now new bookstores. And there were some really cool books published. And, yeah, it is insane to scramble to find a paper book, when I could buy (or not-buy) an e-book. Well. Here I am.
Third – me actually reading whatever caught my fancy. Last year my fancy caught a lot of books about dead people and fairies. What a year!
So, the most memorable books of year 2023 (non-Russian ones)
1) Holly Black’s Fairy books. Cruel Prince trilogy, The Stolen Heir, Tithe.
2) Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
My favorite of the fairy books. I loved Emily, and I love Wendell, and I loved the tone of the book
3) T. Kingfisher. Various books, some re-reads, some not.
Those are my comfort read, even the horror and the children’s ones.
4) T.L Huchu Edinburgh Nights novels (all three published so far)
5) Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson
6) Alexandra Horowitz The year of the Puppy an Inside of a Dog.
7) Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan
8) Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
9) Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
10) Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
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Date: 2024-02-09 05:53 am (UTC)Big fan of Kingfisher/Vernon also, ESPECIALLY the kid books. (I've now written Harriet Hamsterbone for Yuletide four times, and it's been a blast every time XD)
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Date: 2024-02-16 03:53 am (UTC)out of all the fairy books I read, I think "Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia" is my favorite, because I just love competent characters and obsessions with research, and this book delivers. :)
I think I gave most of my friends with kids a book by Ursula Vernon by now. And My teenagers always reminds me when there is a new book of hers to buy.