2006 books write up

I'm blogging books and manga separately this year, just because I read so much manga. I feel like I've read remarkably few books this year; last year my reading had gone down in total, but I didn't separate the books and manga out, so I'm not sure if I read more books this year or last year. I definitely read way more manga this year, which is why the book count is only at 90. It's really weird; not reading many actual books makes me feel like a slacker, particularly since much of what I did read was YA.

( Thoughts about the year in books )

I've blogged nearly all of these previously; the ones that haven't been written up yet are asterisked. You should be able to find everything via tags or LJ memories, and if you're curious about one of the unblogged ones, leave a comment and I shall expound upon it.

And now, without further ado, my top ten books of 2006:

1. ( Gillian Bradshaw, assorted novels )



2. ( Sarah Dessen, Just Listen )



3. ( Scott McCloud, Making Comics )



4. ( Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua, eds., This Bridge Called My Back )



5. ( Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing )



6. ( Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night )



7. ( Beverley Daniel Tatum, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations about Race )
   
   
   
8. ( Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia and The King of Attolia )



9. ( Jo Walton, Farthing )



10. ( Scott Westerfeld, Succession )

Also recommended: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre; Christina Chiu, Troublemaker and Other Saints; Sarah Dessen, Dreamland; Emma Donoghue, Life Mask; Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers; Susan Vaught, Stormwitch; Cornel West, Race Matters; Frank H. Wu, Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White; Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese

Total read: 90 (3 rereads)

( All books read in 2007 )

Honey and Clover, ep. 08-15

For those of you not watching this series, it is a series on five art students and what they do in life, how they fall in and out of love, find jobs, try to figure out a purpose and all those other things you do when you're graduating from college. I love it so much; I fell in love with it around episode 4 or 5, and the more I watch, the more I love it.

It's a comfort watch for me; it's so quiet and still, despite its silly moments.

( Spoilers for all 8 eps. )