This is another early end-of-year wrap-up… I tell you, every year, what I read.
I have one more book that I am gonna by-Chaos read this year, and it is Elizabeth Bear‘s Range of Ghosts
Here’s the cover:
And once I’ve read it, I will tell you things about it, because I am the very lucky woman who got a sneak preview. And also because Bear rocks, and I’m excited about it.
This was not an outstanding book-reading year for me, despite my lofty intentions. I read a lot of parts of books, for research, and feel as though I may have forgotten a book or two, but here’s everything I can remember finishing:
2011 Books:
1. Killing Rocks
2. The Girl Who Played with Fire
3. American Vampire Vol. 1
4. One Ring Circus: Dispatches from the World of Boxing
5. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
6. Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
7. Deathless
8. The Hidden Goddess
9. Resurrection Code
10. Fall from Grace
11. Basilica: The Splendor and the Scandal: Building St. Peter’s
12. American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
13. The Brahms Deception
14. In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
15. Miserere: An Autumn Tale
16. Little Face
17. The Tears of the Sun: A Novel of the Change
18. Those Across the River
19. A Bright and Guilty Place: Murder, Corruption, and L.A.’s Scandalous Coming of Age
20. Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris
21. Shatner Rules: Your Guide to Understanding the Shatnerverse and the World at Large
22. Better off Undead, by DD Barant
22. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen – Century – 1910, by Alan Moore
23. Joe the Barbarian, by Grant Morrison & Sean Murphy
Rereads
1. Shadowland
2. Watchers
3. It
4. When the Wind Blows
5. Flowers in the Attic
6. The Hellbound Heart, by Clive Barker
I’d love to hear what all of you read and loved this year.
will be out on April 10th, which is a mere 124 days from now, and I am excited and extremely proud to have the official go-ahead on showing you the cover art…
art and that it’s gorgeous in its own right–is that the figure could be one of several of the characters from the novel… but that’s something I’ll talk about in a later post, after more of you have read it. I’m actually contemplating a Who is She? contest, to run after 
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