Books read, Jan-Jun 2015

[bironic]

Thought it might be fun to post this.

1. Ancillary Sword - Ann Leckie
2. ["Sell Your Body to the Night" - 100K dira sudis Teen Wolf story]
3. Saga vol. 4 - Brian K. Vaughan/Fiona Staples
4. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula Le Guin (reread) + "The Ones Who Run From Omelas" - Le Guin
5. The Martian - Andy Weir
6. Best American Magazine Writing 2014 - various
7. A Discovery of Witches - Deborah Harkness
8. The Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein
9. The Outskirter's Secret - Rosemary Kirstein
10. Texts from Jane Eyre - Mallory Ortberg
11. The Lost Steersman - Rosemary Kirstein
12. ["I Seem to Be a Verb" - 94K Aja/bookshop Inception story]
13. Ex Machina vols 1-2 - Brian K. Vaughan
14. The Language of Power - Rosemary Kirstein
15. A Guide to Quality, Taste and Style - Tim Gunn & Kate Moloney
16. Best American Science & Nature Writing 2014 - ed. Deborah Blum
17. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula Le Guin
18. The Tombs of Atuan - Ursula Le Guin
19. The Farthest Shore - Ursula Le Guin
20. Inkheart - Cornelia Funke
21. What the Body Told - Rafael Campo
22. Alternative Medicine - Rafael Campo
23. Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
24. Inkdeath - Cornelia Funke
25. Life in the Balance - Thomas Graboys

Happy to talk about any of them if you want to.

ETA: Second half of the year.

Comments

[cinco]

What did you think about the Tim Gunn and Mallory Ortberg books? They're both on my to-read list!

[bironic]

I ended up being glad the Ortberg book was a library loan. Parts of it were great, others less so. Somewhat dependent on one's knowledge of the original works. Not as solid as Hark, A Vagrant.

deelaundry got me the Tim Gunn book half as a joke, but it turned out to have a few useful pieces of advice. The parts about finding certain kinds of clothes that work for different body types was obvious for anyone such as you who've worked out what works for you, but I found some of the sections on defining a personal style interesting. And some random other bits and bobs. It had a sweet, confidence-boosting tone, which made up for all the silly doodles of shoes and scarves and stuff. If you like, I can pass it along to you?