Comments on: A Year in Books

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By: Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Lauren Baratz-Logsted — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 21:37:00 +0000

Thanks for the mention!

By: daria

daria — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 20:18:00 +0000

When I was a teen and thus less busy (having no job is a great way to live *g*), I used to read just about that amount of books. One book per day, and weekends allowed me two. So I probably read about 400 books a year. Back then…

I don’t keep a list but it would probably look like this:

Urban Fantasy / Dark Modern Fantasy / Supernatural Thriller – 50%
Paranormal Romance in the same vein as above – 15%
Chick Lit Mystery & Thriller 10%
Horror 5%
Science Fiction 10 %
Other Mystery & Thriller 5%
YA 3% (all of them either modern fantasy or dark fantasy or whatever )
Other Chick Lit 1 %
Literary 1 %

It is no wonder I mostly want to write in the first three categories, isn’t it?

By: Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:05:00 +0000

alas, anonymous, I found it all too time-consuming for my current schedule. but it was hte usual. a few were great, most were decent, and some were bleh.

Besides, we don't really need another rendition of the Scott Westerfeld parade around here, now do we? I do talk about many of the books that i've read in my various posts, and a few weeks ago, I listed my a few of my favorites: The Companion, Valiant, and Uglies.

Benny O! Wow, so cool to see you here!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:51:00 +0000

R U gonna review all the books U red last year?

By: Milady Insanity

Milady Insanity — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:27:00 +0000

I admire Lauren Baratz-Logsted too, Diana!

I was going to do the same, but somewhere along the way, I fell apart. But I did read over 300 books this year, and most years I make it over 200, so it wasn’t too bad.

I may steal this, if I’m not lazy. Hehe.

I need to post the list of books I read soon.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 02:18:00 +0000

Love the stats (basking in the inner geek moment… ok, it’s gone).
Going to have to keep better track of my 2006 reads!

By: shana

shana — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 05:42:00 +0000

oh, and get that url to the book’s site up there. and one to amazon to buy the book.

By: Ben O.

Ben O. — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:58:00 +0000

Wow, my reading actually went down a little this past year. Bummer.

Thanks for the inspiration.

Ben O.

By: Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:38:00 +0000

Steal away, Sha-nay-nay. I know I stole this from someone else, but I can't remember who right now. And here here! on the finding new authors. This was a big year for new authors for me, partly because I threw myself full-steam into industry buzz and partially because I discovered nuevo-YA. Also, I wanted to read a lot of debut books. Highly recommend Holly Black, Scott Westerfeld (it's a broken record around here) and Susan Squires. New voices are such an eye opener about your own writing, I think.

I'm pretty good about finishing the books I start, even if it means dragging myself through it. I don't like giving up. But I did give up on a few books this year. After banging them against the wall a few times I just couldn't put myself through it any more.

I already have my initial lineup for 2006: The Da Vinci Code, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Golden Compass, Gathering Blue, Against the Rules, In the Cold, and Jewel of Atlantis. Always more books than time! And did I mention I want to write two books next year?