Words, words, words.

[oloriel]

Book meme stolen from fileg:

Which Author's Fiction are You?

Jane Austen wrote you. You are extremely aware of the power of a single word.
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Given the few and rather obvious choices, I am not surprised.

Speaking of books, though, I suppose now would be a good time for the year's big bad-ass reading list. I know, I meant to do these monthly, but I stopped like, when? in May? So now I try and put the list together from memory. Errors and ommissions possible. Essays not included. Titles in the language in which I read the bloody book because I'm too lazy to check translations.



First time read
Re-read
[short commentary if I deem it necessary]

Colm Toíbín - The South
Sergej Lukianenko - Wächter der Nacht
Ingo F. Walter & Norbert Wolf - Meisterwerke der Buchmalerei
Arnaldur Indriðason - Tainted Blood
Tim Parks - Europa [oh dear God the "Look I'm James Joyce's little brother!" run-on sentences. They still give me nightmares.]
Arnaldur Indriðason - Silence of the Grave
Richard Aczel – Creative Writing
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Parliament of Fowls [Gods, I even translated the whole bloody thing!]
Madeleine L'Engle - An Acceptable Time [R.I.P.]
Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
Neil Gaiman - The Sandman
Tom Holt - Who's afraid of Beowulf?
Mayfair Mei-hui Yang - Gifts, Favors, and Banquets: The Art of Social Relationships in China
juno_magic - Labyrinth der Legenden :D [yes that counts, it's a full-fledged novel after all]
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings
Richard Aczel - How to write an Essay
William Shakespeare - Macbeth
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
William Shakespeare - King Lear
William Shakespeare - Othello [yeah, April was the month of the Doooomed]
J.R.R. Tolkien - The Children of Húrin [Q.E.D. - which reminds me, I still haven't written that review. Damn.]
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales [incomplete, still]
Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde
Canafinwë Macalaurë Unknown - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Lynn Flewelling - Das Licht in den Schatten
William Shakespeare - Much Ado About Nothing
Astrid Lindgren, Wir Kinder aus Bullerbü, Mehr von uns Kindern aus Bullerbü, Immer lustig in Bullerbü
Astrid Lindgren, Ronja Räubertochter
Astrid Lindgren, Madita [I needed my Astrid Lindgren fix, ok?]
Walter J. Ong - Orality and Literacy
Unknown – Beowulf [technically I've read this before, but not in the original]
J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Sergej Lukianenko - Wächter des Tages
Naomi Novik – His Majesty's Dragon
Arnaldur Indriðason – Voices
Humphrey Carpenter - J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography [this is astonishingly entertaining. Kind of like Angela's Ashes, except with less rain and more Elves.]
Alan Moore - Watchmen
Bernard Cornwell – The Pale Horseman
Bernard Cornwell – The Lords of the North
Naomi Novik – Throne of Jade
Karen Conelly – Der Kuss des Drachen
Noah Gordon - Der Medicus
Jasper Fforde – The Eyre Affair
Jasper Fforde – Lost in a Good Book
Jasper Fforde – The Well of Lost Plots
Jasper Fforde – Something Rotten
Jasper Fforde – The Big Over Easy [so I needed my Fforde fix too. Whut?]
Alan Moore - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, I
Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman - Good Omens
Bernard Cornwell – Sword Song [I like Uhtred. He's a reckless arrogant bastard, but he's my kind of bastard. And at least he's capable of being a warrior without pretending his enemies are not human.]
Neil Gaiman – American Gods
Terry Pratchett – Guards! Guards!
Lonely Planet - Japan
Terry Pratchett – Night Watch

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Eh well. Statistically that's about a book a week, which is not too bad with my schedule. And I probably forgot something here and there. Plus I didn't list the ten thousand essays on Sir Gawain or Orality and Literacy in Beowulf that I read for those papers I should have written. So it's ok. I just have to remember doing this monthly next year so I don't lose track again.

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Also, I had an idea how to get a move on with the Plotbunny from Angband, it may have a title soon, and I had a new idea for a fannish project for next year's Ring*Con art contest. Because the world may not have known that it needs Tengwar karuta, but it sure as taxes does.

Comments

[mirien.livejournal.com]

I love Tom Holt.

Who's Afraid of Beowulf?

was the first one of his I read and still my favourite, I think.

Not a bad reading list, that!

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

At some point I stopped counting, but I didn't do as well as you did. :-(

However, it totally made my day, month, and year, that you counted my manuscript as a book on your list.

*HUGS*

Also, thank you very very much for that beautiful postcard. I've never received a postcard from as far away as Japan. *squeee* And it's so very very beautiful, too!

*smooches some more*

Have a very happy New Year!