Thursday, July 1, 2010

2010 Six-month Reading Roundup

Through June 30th:

Books read to date: 66/125 (bumping my challenge to 125)
Male to female authors: 52/14 (I counted Diane and Michael Preston as female as her name was first)
Traditional Science Fiction: only 7?! (wow, not so many years ago that would have been a much higher number. I did not count the apocalyptic fiction books, though...)
Fantasy: 2 (not surprising..)
Non-traditional Science Fiction, i.e. Vampire books, Jasper Fforde, etc: 5
Apocalyptic fiction: 7 (I think... the boundaries are a bit blurred anymore. I counted The War of the Worlds as apocalyptic)
Non-fiction: 7/66
Character series books: Sookie Stackhouse (2), Travis McGee (8), Sackett (6), Flavia DeLuce (2), Lisbeth Salander (2), Last Survivers (3), Honor Harrington (1), Anna Pigeon (1), Meg Lanslow (1), Tess Monaghan (1), Agent Pendergast (1)
Rereads: only 2 (well except for all the Travis McGee and Louis L'Amour, but it's been 20+ years on those)



Most fun new series or character: Sookie Stackhouse written by Charlaine Harris; while not new at all (the first book, Dead Until Dark was written in 2001), Sookie is gaining in popularity thanks to Stephanie Meyer's Twilight books and movies focusing attention on the 'vampire' genre. Sookie is so much more likeable and fun than Bella, it's hard to understand why Ms. Harris isn't the multi-gazillionaire and Stephanie Meyer isn't... well anyway, these books ARE fun and readable. If you like them, try the HBO series True Blood.

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