The more my eyes went up and down the list of books I read in 2023, the more they came to rest on We Never Talk About My Brother by Peter S. Beagle. The call from Stockholm doesn’t come for people who publish books with titles like Lila the Werewolf or The Innkeeper’s Song, but …
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Jan 02 2024
Looking Back On 2023
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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January 2, 2024
Happy New Year, friends and readers! I decided to start this year with a recap post on my very first day back at work, instead of struggle bugging with it for a few days like I have in years past, lol. Part of this may be due to how eager I am for 2024 to …
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Oct 03 2023
Süddeutsche Series
- By Doug Merrill in Auf Deutsch, Doug, Lists
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October 3, 2023
In early 2004, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers, began a new venture: publishing hardcover books. They began with a worthy and ambitious set of 50 great novels of the twentieth century, published one per week through to February 2005, when the series concluded with If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveler… …
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Jan 03 2023
Looking Back On 2022
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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January 3, 2023
According to Goodreads, I read 299 books in 2022, 6 short of my record the year before. The pandemic definitely helped me find more time to read than in years prior, tho 2022 was more difficult because I actually got sick, from COVID-19 itself in May, then with whatever obnoxious unnumbered viruses the kids brought …
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Jan 01 2023
Taking Stock of 2022
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 1, 2023
I owe my favorite book of 2022 to the Hugo nominators who got Light from Uncommon Stars onto the finalist list, and the publishers who generously provided an electronic copy to all voters. Without those two groups of people, I would have missed out on a wonderful book and never been the wiser. The book …
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Apr 17 2022
Hugo Finalists 2022
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Essay, Lists
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April 17, 2022
What an exciting bunch of finalists! I’ve read precisely none of the finalists in the first four fiction categories (I had put The Witness for the Dead by Katherine Addison on my nominating ballot and am sorry to see it was not among the top six), also none of the finalists for Best Related Work, …
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Jan 13 2022
Looking Back on 2021
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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January 13, 2022
I read and reviewed over 300 books last year. I honestly do not know how I did that, and I’m hoping I won’t have to continue that patently absurd rate of reading this year, especially since I’ve started designing tabletop games and would like to spend more time and effort doing that instead. Ofc, I’ve …
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Jan 07 2022
Taking Stock of 2021
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 7, 2022
For a year that started out with a struggle to read much of anything at all, 2021 brought numerous books that made me very happy to read, to have read, to browse repeatedly, and to go back and read bits of them again and again. Both Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins and Fletcher and Zenobia …
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Oct 11 2021
Tales of the Squee, Pt. 2
- By Doug Merrill in Coming Attractions, Doug, Lists, Short Takes
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October 11, 2021
That I am spoiled for choice among just the books that I own, to say nothing of any libraries that Berlin might have, can be inferred from the fact that in the four and a half years since I last wrote a coming attractions post, I have read north of 200 books, but only three …
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Jan 15 2021
Looking Back On 2020
- By Doreen Sheridan in Doreen, Lists
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January 15, 2021
Y’all, I read a patently absurd number of books last year. With a final tally of 256 books logged on Goodreads, this was an increase of just under 70 books and over 8000 pages from the year before. On the one hand, I did a much better job of cataloging the graphic novels and children’s …
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