I’m going to be AFK for the day, so Tony, Owen, or anyone else: if there’s a mistake in this post, please do point it out, but it’ll be here for a while 🙂
Odds ‘n ends about books and reading that caught my eye this week. You’ve probably seen some/most/all of them, but just in case:
From No. 1 to No. 60, Readers’ Top Books Published in the Past Five Years—according to Goodreads, anyway
The Tyranny of the Best-Of List: On Navigating Book Lists with OCD
The Doomed Mouse Utopia That Inspired the ‘Rats of NIMH’—as someone who read Robert C. O’Brien’s book an estimated 100 times, I had to read this
Tom Wolfe at the Strand—a “brisk survey of [Wolfe’s] career” recently present at the Strand bookstore.
Lee Child with Michael Connelly – Safe Enough—Connelly and Child talk about his new short story collection
Five SFF Strategies for Plotting Around Pesky Parents: Are you the responsible, caring parent of a juvenile adventurer? You may want to upgrade your insurance…
Historical Fantasy – Where does the history end and the fantasy begin?—Shauna Lawless opines
How to Avoid Book Blogger Burnout
To help talk about backlist titles (and just for fun), What Was I Talking About 10 Years Ago Week?
Not a lot actually (October 2014 was a pretty quiet month for some reason), but I did note the release of: Incarnate by Anton Strout and Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution by Keith DeCandido.
This Week’s New Releases that I’m Excited About and/or You’ll Probably See Here Soon:
Candle & Crow by Kevin Hearne—The last Ink & Sigil novel, the last novel in the Iron Druid universe, and one of Hearne’s best yet. I raved about it recently
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