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wrongquestions.blogspot.com - 1/4/2009
2008, A Year in Reading: Best and Worst Books of the Year
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I read 66 books in 2008, a slight uptick from last year but nowhere near the numbers I used to rack up when I was gainfully unemployed. In terms of quality, too, 2008 showed a slight but noticeable improvement over 2007, though it still wasn't as exciting a reading year as I could have wished. ...

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Purview, Round 3
OF Blog of the Fallen — Here are a few more links to other Best of/2008 Favorites lists, with more in a few days perhaps, work/stomach permitting: Asking the Wrong Questions - 2008, A Year in Reading: Best and Worst Books of the Year, 2008: A Year in Reading: Best Short Stories of the Year - For some reason, I tend to overlook Abigail Nussbaum's blog. It's not because I disagree with her choices (often, she and I seem to have similar tastes, and when we do disagree, she has cogent reasons for why a story didn't work for her), but I think it's because she ...

The Best of 2008, Redux
Torque Control — ... Following on from Liz’s two lists of her best 2008 reads, here are some more for you to peruse. Strange Horizons review of the year ReadySteadyBook books of the year symposium; I am particularly taken by China Mieville’s description of this book as a “crossbreed of petro-apocalyptic philosophy and post-genre horror fiction” Abigail Nussbaum’s short stories and best reads of 2008 Big Dumb Object’s picks Martin Lewis’ book ...

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