last October<\/a>. And that\u2019s partly because this year a couple of things have intervened:<\/p>\r\nFirst, in February, I started reading (or in some cases re-reading) Joanna Russ\u2019s work. I got through all of her published short fiction that I know of, but it took me most of the month. It was very much worth it\u2014some of it was among my favorite fiction that I\u2019ve read in the past couple years\u2014but it meant putting the main unread-books project on hold for a while.<\/p>\r\n
(In May, I read two of her novels that I hadn\u2019t read before (and re-read The Female Man<\/cite>). But those two novels were on my unread-books shelf, so that counted toward the big project.)<\/p>\r\nAnd second, in June I read or skimmed all of the nominated works in the Hugo fiction categories. Which on the one hand I\u2019m glad to have done; I don\u2019t usually get through the short fiction until the last minute, and I used to not read the novels at all. But on the other hand, it\u2019s meant that for the past month, I\u2019ve read almost nothing but what\u2019s on the ballot.<\/p>\r\n
I\u2019ve now also read or skimmed everything nominated for the WSFS YA award, and am starting in on samples of Campbell nominees\u2019 work. It\u2019s conceivable I might even read some of the nominated nonfiction before the deadline, though fairly unlikely.<\/p>\r\n
But all of this has added up to feeling like I\u2019ve been reading a lot<\/em> but still not making any progress on my unread-books project.<\/p>\r\nSo the other day, I set aside the Hugo-and-related-awards reading for a bit, and settled in to read something from the unread shelves. Such as maybe one of the four or so mass-market paperbacks that I\u2019ve started in the past few months but haven\u2019t finished. But what popped to the top of the stack ended up being this massive hardcover William Tenn collection.<\/p>\r\n
That\u2019s because I have even more unread hardcovers and trade paperbacks than unread mass-market paperbacks. I\u2019m mostly focusing on the MMPBs at this point, but every now and then I divert temporarily into the larger books. And in this case, a little bit of bookshelf-rearranging meant that if I removed the Tenn book from the unread-oversize-hardcovers shelf, I could add several other books that\u2019ve been sitting in a stack on my floor, waiting for there to be a better place for them.<\/p>\r\n
It helps that I\u2019m not loving the Tenn stories. I\u2019m a little sad about that, because I used to like his work quite a bit, and because the Afterwords mostly give me the impression that he was someone I\u2019d have liked personally; but it does mean that I can likely skim the whole 600-page book in a couple of days, which may mean I can finally get back to the main MMPB project. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17331,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17326\/revisions\/17331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}