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6 comments:
I will try and stop by. I've been very remiss at visiting the Smugglers of late :( This will change in 2010 as I will be more organized!
Merry Christmas Kristen!
Merry Christmas Orannia! I hope you had a wonderful holiday!
I'm really pleased that so many of my recs (at least two) made your top list! So I'm moving Lips Touch: Three Times to my firmly to-buy list for my next Amazon shopping spree. I'm looking forward to reading By Mountain Bound.
Books I'm looking forward to in 2010:
The Gaslight Dogs by Karin Lowachee - due out in March 2010. It's a new standalone.
Spirit and Lens by Carol Berg - definitely!
For the next ones, I'm not sure when they are out, I can only hope sooner rather than later:
Resurrection Code by Lyda Morehouse - sequel to the LINK series. She said it started out as a prequel about Mouse, but then morphed into a sequel.
The conclusion of the Magister Trilogy by C.S. Friedman.
Now, if I had to do my top 10 list of 2009 (not ordered):
1. Palimpsest - Catherynne M. Valente. (And also A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects, her second poetry collection.)
2. The Living Blood - Tananarive Due
3. The Maerlander Chronicles - Elisabeth Vonarburg
4. Fire - Krisin Cashore
5. Dread Empire's Fall: Convention of War - Walter Jon Williams (also Metropolitan)
6. Wings of Wrath - C.S. Friedman (also The Wilding)
7. Night's Master - Tanith Lee (and everything else I've read by her this year: Vivia, Elephantasm, Herione of the World, reread of The Birth Grave
8. The City and the City - China Mieville
9. Clockwork Phoenix: Tales of Beauty and Strangeness - Mike Allen, ed. (collecion of short stories)
(now it gets difficult)
10. Air, or Have Not Have - Geoff Ryman
Pandemonium - Daryl Gregory
All the Windwracked Stars - Elizabeth Bear
I read about 72 books so far this year, and not-finished (due to attention-deficit disorder, mainly) another 15.
Anastasia - I'd never heard of Tananarive Due before you mentioned her so I'm very glad you did. :) And I'm pleased to see Fire made it to your top 10 list.
The Gaslight Dogs did sound good. Lowachee is still an author I haven't read yet so that may be a good place to start since all her other books are hard to find.
I didn't know Resurrection Code ended up turning into a sequel instead of the prequel. That's interesting.
Wow, I should have some good reading ahead of me since I have a lot of the books on your top 10 list that I still need to read (Palimpsest, The Living Blood, the first Dread Empire's Fall book, and Night's Master). I want to get Wings of Wrath when it comes out in paperback and I'd really like to read the Vonarburg book as well.
Ok, I just bought Lips Touch! So I'll get to read it before the end of the year.
Anastasia - I hope you like Lips Touch!
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