Your Humble Blogger read 108 books in 2007. That’s a pretty fair number, up from a low of 2006 and down from the highs of 2005 and 2004. I suspect that the number of unblogged but read books was up, but of course I don’t actually have any way of knowing that, not really. Of the 108, I read 58 for the first time, and I reread 50. Actually, I’m counting The Android’s Dream<\/I> twice, because I read it in March and then again in December. Ah, well. Anyway, 57 is the low for the last four years.
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I read a lot<\/I> of Young Adult speculative fiction. 25 of the 58 new books were YA\/SF, and another four were YA but not SF. There were 16 SF novels (well, 14 and a book of short stories), four books of plays, three “non-genre” novels, three books of non-fiction, two historical novels, one western and The Iliad<\/I>. There could be some quibbling over the categorization, but let’s move on to the list of Ten or Eleven Books Your Humble Blogger Enjoyed Reading in 2007<\/strong>. But the really odd thing is that after reading 9 in 2004, 11 in 2005 and 5 in 2006, I read no new mystery novels in 2007. Have I stopped reading mysteries? Not really; I re-read a bunch (all right, nine by a quick count) of them, mostly Dick Francis books. And if I had seen the new Dick Francis at the library, I would have picked it up. I will undoubtedly pick up the new Sara Paretsky (although it appears to have a Red Heifer) and the new Laurie R. King (although \u2026 um, although nothing, I’m looking forward to it). But those three are the only mystery novelists that I will particularly look for on the New Books shelf, and I haven’t (for whatever reason) picked up any old Erle Stanley Gardner this year. And I haven’t picked up a new (to YHB) mystery writer, either. And I’ve found lately that I’d rather take a chance on a specfic novel I know nothing about at all than a mystery. Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus<\/I>, In Which Your Humble Blogger spends far, far too long looking into his own archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18211,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10848\/revisions\/18211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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