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2009 books write up
Mon, Feb. 22nd, 2010 02:42 pmThis is embarrassingly late even for Lunar New Year. I'm hoping "better late than never" still applies.
As with sequential art, I totally sucked at writing things up this year. Grad school: worst time suck ever! Sadly, this means I haven't reviewed almost half of the books on my best-of list. As usual, the list of books here are my favorites read in 2009, not published 2009. And in fact, I have some books on the list that are being published this year, thanks to the wonder of ARCs.
This year, I continued to do, despite completely failing to post at the comm. I think I was doing better in terms of percentages than I was last year, and then I hit November, school started really sucking, and all I could read were historical romances, which are super White. As such, I have roughly the same percentages of women and POC read this year as I did last year. At least there was no backsliding?
I feel like I should say something more intelligent about what I was reading, except I don't think I was a particularly intelligent reader this year.
Anything not linked in the giant list has not been written up; feel free to ask me about anything in the comments.
Also recommended: Swati Avasthi, Split; Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember; Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss and Santa Olivia; Kristin Cashore, Fire; Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, The Graveyard Book; Joey W. Hill, A Witch's Beauty; Nisi Shawl, Filter House; Sherri L. Smith, Flygirl; and Drew Hayden Taylor, The Night Wanderer.
Total read: 122 (8 rereads)
45 by women of color, 60 by POC, 101 by women
( All books read in 2009 )
As with sequential art, I totally sucked at writing things up this year. Grad school: worst time suck ever! Sadly, this means I haven't reviewed almost half of the books on my best-of list. As usual, the list of books here are my favorites read in 2009, not published 2009. And in fact, I have some books on the list that are being published this year, thanks to the wonder of ARCs.
This year, I continued to do
I feel like I should say something more intelligent about what I was reading, except I don't think I was a particularly intelligent reader this year.
Anything not linked in the giant list has not been written up; feel free to ask me about anything in the comments.
- ( Kim Anderson, A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood )
- ( M.T. Anderson, Octavian Nothing: The Kingdom on the Waves )
- ( Minister Faust, From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain )
- ( Nalo Hopkinson, The New Moon's Arms )
- ( N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms )
- ( Many Ly, Roots and Wings )
- ( Ramesh Menon, The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering )
- ( Raj Patel, Stuffed and Starved )
- ( Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body )
- ( Sonia Shah, ed., Dragon Ladies )
Also recommended: Swati Avasthi, Split; Mary Balogh, A Summer to Remember; Jacqueline Carey, Naamah's Kiss and Santa Olivia; Kristin Cashore, Fire; Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean, The Graveyard Book; Joey W. Hill, A Witch's Beauty; Nisi Shawl, Filter House; Sherri L. Smith, Flygirl; and Drew Hayden Taylor, The Night Wanderer.
Total read: 122 (8 rereads)
45 by women of color, 60 by POC, 101 by women
( All books read in 2009 )