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2017 reading
Jan. 1st, 2018 02:16 pm93 books (an increase of 10 on 2016), 74 of them by women (and three writers account for more than half of the books by male authors - Ben Aaronovitch with 6, and Terry Pratchett and Patrick O'Brian with with 3 each).
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I think my favourites were Hag-Seed, Dave Hutchinson's Fractured Europe series, Robin Stevens' Wells and Wong mysteries, Ninefox Gambit, Provenance and La Belle Sauvage. And Dunnett, of course. And I really enjoyed re-reading Earthsea. I've also been very much liking the Phryne Fisher and Aubrey/Maturin series, and am continuing to enjoy Bujold after taking rather a long time to get into her.
There were two books I didn't finish: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (a combination of egregious proofreading fail and gratuitous sadistic violence) and The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Britpicking and 16th-century-picking fails). I've also been reading more short fiction; having realised that all the nominees for the Best Short Story Hugo were available online, I went and read them all, and have read more short fiction online since then. Uncanny Magazine has become a particular favourite of mine.
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I think my favourites were Hag-Seed, Dave Hutchinson's Fractured Europe series, Robin Stevens' Wells and Wong mysteries, Ninefox Gambit, Provenance and La Belle Sauvage. And Dunnett, of course. And I really enjoyed re-reading Earthsea. I've also been very much liking the Phryne Fisher and Aubrey/Maturin series, and am continuing to enjoy Bujold after taking rather a long time to get into her.
There were two books I didn't finish: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab (a combination of egregious proofreading fail and gratuitous sadistic violence) and The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope (Britpicking and 16th-century-picking fails). I've also been reading more short fiction; having realised that all the nominees for the Best Short Story Hugo were available online, I went and read them all, and have read more short fiction online since then. Uncanny Magazine has become a particular favourite of mine.
