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My little friend Sydney gets a little too needy sometimes. Much like a toddler, she has to go to bed at a certain time, and if I don’t put her to bed (that is, sit where she can crawl in my lap and go to sleep), she has a tantrum.

I think I like the tantrums better than what she did the other night after I went into the living room to read. Cats aren’t allowed in there, but she sneaked in, knelt at my feet, and rubbed her head on my toes. Ugh. An obsequious cat is unnatural.

Only two books a week, or one book every three days. It doesn’t seem like a lot, considering that some days I’ve finished two books. Guess they must have been short books.

I don’t finish all the books I start, either. After several weeks I finally gave up on Anna Karenina. I got tired of her little white hands, etc., and was more than ready to have her jump in front of an oncoming train. I know lots of people love that book. Maybe they read a different translation.

I have nothing good to say about the books I didn’t finish, so I left them off the list. Ha. That’ll make it harder to figure out which books I’m talking about when I complain about their bad writing.

Fifty books in a year? Bah. Of course, my kids are grown up, my yard’s a mess, and I have no social life.

Here’s a list of the books I read last year, excluding nonfiction and short stories.

1. Anderson: The Broken Sword
2. Anderson: Three Hearts and Three Lions
3. Baker: The Anvil of the World
4. Beagle: The Last Unicorn
5. Bear: Songs of Earth and Power
6. Bear: Darwin’s Radio
7. Berg: Transformation
8. Berg: Revelation
9. Berg: Restoration
10. Berg: Son of Avonar
11. Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
12. Bray: Devlin’s Luck
13. Briggs: The Hob’s Bargain
14. Brooks: The Sword of Shannara
15. Brust and Bull: Freedom and Necessity Continue reading “Fiction read during 2005”