In 2015, I decided to read in three major science fiction and fantasy series that I had somehow missed over the previous twenty years or more. While I had been happily reading other things, they had grown into monuments of the field, and I only knew second-hand what they were all about. So I decided …
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Jan 02 2015
Taking Stock of 2014
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Essay, Lists
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January 2, 2015
Three themes emerged in my reading this year, without great conscious intent on my part; well, four if I count getting back to a more typical number of books read. The year did not feature any births, international relocations, invasions by neighboring countries, or major changes in employment. All of that helped in finding more …
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Jan 03 2014
Taking Stock of 2013
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 3, 2014
Retconning, so as to have a copy of these online as well. This was a year of living hand-to-mouth after the move to Berlin. Forty-eight in total; one in German; three in electronic form, fewer now that I was no longer commuting on the Moscow subway. The year I read almost everything that John M. …
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Jan 04 2012
Taking Stock of 2011
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 4, 2012
Retconning, so as to have a copy of these online as well. This was the year of moving away from Tbilisi. 2666 and Hadji Murad are the books that remain most in memory from the year’s reading. Thirty-four in total; one in German; none in electronic form, as I did not yet have an e-book …
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Jan 11 2011
Taking Stock of 2010: Books
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 11, 2011
Undemanding reading, with one or two exceptions, appears as the hallmark of 2010. Belated reaction to the economic crisis? Lack of initiative after spending several months with Count Tolstoy in 2009? Hard to say. The exceptions: Armenian Golgotha by Grigoris Balakian, a survivor’s testimony from the time of his arrest in 1915 in Istanbul to …
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Jan 24 2010
Taking Stock of 2009: Books
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 24, 2010
Instead of a straight-up best-of list, a slightly more eclectic look back at what I read in 2009. Best large Russian book, Tolstoy’s big one; best small Russian book (and most scurrilous of any nationality) Moscow to the End of the Line by Venedikt Erofeev. Best fantasy, parts two through four of the Princess of …
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Jan 22 2008
Taking Stock of 2007: Books
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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January 22, 2008
I read about as much in 2007 as I did in 2006, but I wrote far fewer reviews. One of the perils of full-time employment. It also looks like a year of consolidation, rather than a year of discovery. Having polished off the lucky thirteenth in Lemony Snicket’s set in December 2006, I reached the …
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Feb 06 2007
Taking Stock of 2006: Books
- By Doug Merrill in Doug, Lists
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February 6, 2007
Best books I read in 2006? In fiction, it would have to be most of the second half of the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian. I read six in 2006 and the last two in early January 2007, and it’s a terrific body of work. Its acclaim and success need little boost from this blog, …
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