In this grouping, which took me longer than the previous ones this year, there were 12 books written or edited by women, 7 books read in Spanish, 1 in a bilingual Portuguese/English edition, and 1 in a bilingual Latin/English edition. Only 7 re-reads this time, as there were more Advanced Review Copies and anthologies/short story collections that arrived during these 6 weeks or so that influenced my reading then:
May:
201. Carlos Ruiz Zafón, El Juego del Ángel (proof)
202. Milorad Pavić, Landscape Painted With Tea
203. Sarah Hall, Daughters of the North
204. José Hernández, Martín Fierro (re-read)
205. Andrzej Sapkowski, The Last Wish (re-read)
206. James and Kathryn Morrow (eds.), The SFWA European Hall of Fame (anthology)
207. Scott Bakker, Neuropath (ARC)
208. Jannic Durand, Byzantine Art (re-read)
209. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (eds.), Steampunk (anthology)
210. Luís de Camões, Selected Sonnets (bilingual)
211. Luís de Camõoes, The Lusíads
212. George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs: Volume II (collection)
213. Barth Anderson, The Magician and the Fool (ARC)
214. Amanda Michalopoulou, I’d Like (short stories)
215. Etgar Keret, The Girl on the Fridge (short stories)
216. Antonio Orlando Rodríguez, Chiquita
217. Farah Mendlesohn, Rhetorics of Fantasy
218. Gene Wolfe, An Evil Guest (ARC)
219. Gregory Frost, Lord Tophet (ARC)
220. Tobias Buckell, Sly Mongoose (ARC)
221. Ellen Datlow (ed.), The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy (anthology)
222. The Artists of OoP, Out of Picture 2 (anthology; graphic novel)
223. Howard Zinn, A People’s History of American Empire (ARC; graphic novel)
224. Peter David, Tigerheart
225. James Braziel, Birmingham, 35 Miles
226. Paul Kincaid, What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction
227. Jo Graham, Black Ships (ARC)
228. Jorge Luis Borges, Obra Poética (re-read)
229. Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, Seis problemas para don Isidro Parodi (re-read)
230. Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky
231. Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, Dos fantasías memorables/Un modelo para la muerte (re-read)
June:
232. Vergil, Aeneid, Books VII-XII (bilingual edition)
233. Naguib Mahfouz, Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales (short stories)
234. Franz Kafka, The Trial
235. Zoran Živković, Twelve Collections and the Teashop (short stories)
236. Flann O’Brien, The Complete Novels (omnibus)
237. Goran Petrović, La Mano de la Buena Fortuna
238. Slavoj Žižek, The Parallax View
239. Kay Kenyon, A World Too Near (ARC)
240. John Rieder, Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
241. D.M. Cornish, Lamplighter (ARC)
242. Alexander Livitsky (ed.), Worlds Apart: An Anthology of Russian Fantasy and Science Fiction (anthology)
243. Alan Campbell, Iron Angel
244. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass
245. Andrew Crumey, Music, in a Foreign Language
246. Andrzej Sapkowski, La espada del destino
247. Maurice Dantec, Cosmos Incorporated
248. Gene Wolfe, Castleview
249. Ekaterina Sedia, The Alchemy of Stone (ARC)
250. Luis Leante, Mira si yo te querré (re-read)
6 Comments
June 25, 2008 at 12:34 pm
What do you think of reportage, Larry?
June 25, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Not for sure what you mean, Maciek. Mind is drawing blanks, unfortunately.
June 25, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I mean reportage as a genre. Do you like reading it? Have you read it?
June 25, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Still not for sure what you mean. A specific book? Depends. But I suspect I have not. Author?
July 2, 2008 at 3:13 am
I’m not sure how to say it more clearly (from my point of view).
Anyway, you are looking for something outside of Anglo-Saxon origin and whereas reportage is not fiction, I thought I’d suggest reading Kapuscinski. Anything.
Just read some of amazon reviews, for instance, and maybe you’ll pick something.
July 5, 2008 at 3:31 am
Ah, okay. More like journalistic accounts/non-fiction? I’ll keep that in mind, thanks!