books backwards and forwards
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psocopteraMy annual look at the books I'm the very most eager to read!
Right now the list is: still and apparently indefinitely My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 2 (I guess at some point I could... mark it as unreadable, like if Emil Ferris dies without ever finishing it, but I'm not giving up yet), and Alecto the Ninth which seems like it could get a cover and a release date any time now. And then Courtney Milan's Marquis Who Mustn't and Martha Wells new Murderbot, both of which I actually successfully could have had from their library queues a few weeks ago but had no time to possibly read them and had to postpone, but I should be getting Any Day Now.
Of last year's list, I did read Across a Field of Starlight and Other Ever Afters, and Witch King and Paladin's Faith which went on and came off again within 2023, and a lot else I mentioned as exciting rank 2s - Mimicking of Known Successes, Translation State, Some Desperate Glory, Moira's Pen, Grace Needs Space (which, uh, I think I never wrote up, I should do that). Arkady Martine's Prescribed Burn seems to not even have a release date.
This year's similar list - Martine's Rose/House, Menewood, He Who Drowned the World, Thorn Hedge, Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Doctorow's The Lost Cause, What Feasts At Night, Vo's Singing Hills number five Brides of High Hill, Rakesfall, Jemisin's new* Inheritance novella The Awakened Kingdom. (Sometimes I look at these lists and am like "why did I call this Doctorow book a 2 but Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality stories a 3" but I guess that's what past me who put these things on the list was thinking in that moment.)
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Right now the list is: still and apparently indefinitely My Favorite Thing Is Monsters 2 (I guess at some point I could... mark it as unreadable, like if Emil Ferris dies without ever finishing it, but I'm not giving up yet), and Alecto the Ninth which seems like it could get a cover and a release date any time now. And then Courtney Milan's Marquis Who Mustn't and Martha Wells new Murderbot, both of which I actually successfully could have had from their library queues a few weeks ago but had no time to possibly read them and had to postpone, but I should be getting Any Day Now.
Of last year's list, I did read Across a Field of Starlight and Other Ever Afters, and Witch King and Paladin's Faith which went on and came off again within 2023, and a lot else I mentioned as exciting rank 2s - Mimicking of Known Successes, Translation State, Some Desperate Glory, Moira's Pen, Grace Needs Space (which, uh, I think I never wrote up, I should do that). Arkady Martine's Prescribed Burn seems to not even have a release date.
This year's similar list - Martine's Rose/House, Menewood, He Who Drowned the World, Thorn Hedge, Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Doctorow's The Lost Cause, What Feasts At Night, Vo's Singing Hills number five Brides of High Hill, Rakesfall, Jemisin's new* Inheritance novella The Awakened Kingdom. (Sometimes I look at these lists and am like "why did I call this Doctorow book a 2 but Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality stories a 3" but I guess that's what past me who put these things on the list was thinking in that moment.)
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Date: 2024-01-06 02:19 am (UTC)