Books I've read this year

[fredericks]

This is not quite a full list, as I've only started keeping track since April 13th, but I think it'll be interesting to keep tabs on what I manage to make my way through. I re-read often, particularly if I liked a book. The first re-read of a book for the year is noted with (R); subsequent re-reads are ignored.

Fiction/Non-Fiction/Short Story Collections
Vintner's Luck - Elizabeth Knox
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones (R)
As Meat Loves Salt - Maria McCann
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Cell - Stephen King
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman
Stalking Darkness - Lynn Flewelling
Luck in the Shadows - Lynn Flewelling
(note: I really disliked The Nightrunner Series. Like, REALLY.)
On Writing - Stephen King (R)
Castle in the Sky - Diana Wynne Jones
A Dirty Job - Christopher Moore
Kirith Kirin - Jim Grimsley
The Ordinary - Jim Grimsley
Comfort & Joy - Jim Grimsley
Anno Dracula - Kim Newman
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Dragon's Winter - Elizabeth A. Lynn
The Store - Bentley Little
Storm Front - Jim Butcher
Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
Assasination Vacation - Sarah Vowell*
Grave Peril - Jim Butcher
Summer Knight - Jim Butcher
Death Masks - Jim Butcher
Blood Rites - Jim Butcher
Dead Beat - Jim Butcher
Proven Guilty - Jim Butcher
World War Z - Max Brooks

Plays
Wit - Margaret Edson
Angels in America: Millenium Approaches - Tony Kushner (R)
Angels in America: Perestroika - Tony Kushner (R)


Trade Paperbacks/Graphic Novels
Powers:SuperGroup - Brian Michael Bendis
Stardust - Neil Gaiman (artist Charles Vess)
Marvel 1602 - Neil Gaiman
Sandman: The Dream Hunters - Neil Gaiman and Yoshitaka Amano
Powers: The Sellouts - Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Lucifer: Exodus - Mike Carey and artists (various)
Lucifer: The Wolf Beneath the Tree - Mike Carey and artists (various)
Tom Strong, Book Four - Alan Moore, et al.
Powers: Little Deaths - Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Powers: Anarchy - Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Powers: Legends - Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Secret Identity - Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen

The "Meh, Maybe I'll Get Around to Finishing It Eventually" List
An Arrow's Flight - Mark Merlis
Nightswimmer - Joseph Olshan
The Line of Beauty - Alan Hollinghurst

Comments

[fredericks.livejournal.com]

*grin* Yeah, I'm not much of a fan of snobby Literature major-type books, although the discussion Atonement fostered upped its enjoyment. I'll read it again one of these days.

I've read all of the Sandman GNs. I have to say, I teared up quite a bit after reading The Wake. I keep hoping Gaiman comes back to The Dream King but he seems content doing wonderful writing around other interesting characters. You should try The Dream Hunters next. And the Death books are pretty good. There's also a GN with stories outside of the comic run, although I forget the name. It's about each of the Endless in turn. Pretty wacked out, but in a good way.

I've been wanting for a while to write in some sort of encounter with the Endless into the Ariel comics. I know it isn't Marvel but I'll make an exception in this case, since they're not strictly DC either.
Multi-line arcs. Oh yeah.

[twoworldsin1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm only about halfway through The Wake but the first few issues I have to admit I got kinda teary-eyed myself.

I hope that sometime a Sandman movie gets done. There's already a couple movies based on Gaiman novels in the works and there's been tons of comic book movies so if only those two genres can be combined.

Yeah, Death is my favorite character. She looks like she'd be pretty awesome to hang around and she's hot as heck too, in a goth sort of way. Too bad she's, you know, the physical personification of death and all...

Anyway, the name of the graphic novel that you're thinking of is Endless Nights. It has seven stories about one Endless each. It's at the university library and I'll check it out soon. I've wanted to know more about the Endless Desire, since it seems that he/she/it is the Endless that holds the most sway over my life...