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[mamculuna]

Reading lists--at the end of last year, a lot of people were posting their 2007 reading, and I looked on in envy. I read a lot, a whole lot, but can't seem to get around to listing it. I'll try right now just to list what I've read since Christmas, since I can't remember what I read only since New Year's:

Ursula LeGuin--Gifts and also Voices
Will Shetterly--The Gospel of the Knife
Gene Wolfe--Pirate Freedom
Cormac McCarthy-No Country for Old Men
Khaled Hosseini--The Kite Runner
Glen Duncan--I, Lucifer (started, possibly to finish later)
Ken Wilber--The Simple Feeling of Being (for yoga group--reading in bits now and then, may or may not read whole thing)
Ian McEwan--Atonement

And re-read Golden Compass (you can see a movie theme going here). I started and dropped Peter Hoeg's The Quiet Girl, but maybe will pick it up again--also didn't do well with McEwan's Saturday.

So I may or may not post more lists--but do promise to gush and squee over the books that really delight me.

But what I really enjoyed most recently was the movie Juno--very good acting and writing, funny and moving. Loved seeing Allison Tanney being loving and badly dressed (a nice change from West Wing character).

Comments

[usedtobeljs]

That's a LOT of reading. :-))

[hugs]

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

That's why I retired--more time to read!

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

I wanna retire!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Highly recommended!

[zoe-1418.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty far away from being able to do it... but I'm glad to know it's going well for you!

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of doing a 2007 list, but realized I'd read so many books I can't remember all of them.
Still, I could do a list of books since Dec. I'm pretty sure I could remember that far back!
:)

[anomster.livejournal.com]

I've seen Will Shetterly's name on a few reading lists & thought it looked familiar, & tonight it came to me. Did he write the Captain Confederacy comics a decade or two ago? (Or isn't that jacket-copy-worthy?)

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen that, but it's possible. He's married to Emma Bull, who wrote War for the Oaks. I prefer her as a writer, have to say.

[anomster.livejournal.com]

I think they both used to write it.

...Hmm, but apparently not, if you can go by 1 page of Google results. @>)