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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”

I missed reading the The Sword of Shannara when it first came out nearly 30 years ago, so when I saw it on the library shelf I had to pick it up.

Thirty years ago I would have enjoyed the book a lot more. It does have some fun bits, especially the parts where it’s more like a RPG than a takeoff of Lord of the Rings, as in these sections: Continue reading “Sword of Shannara”