2011 reading

As I'll finish the year with a manuscript, I guess I can look back and see how much and what I've read this year…

4 manuscripts (2 have been published since)

4 non-fiction on various subjects (includes some historical research)

"Classics" in the sense of Chansons de Geste – 4 of Chretien de Troyes + La chanson de Roland + Le Roman de Brut (available for free at Project Guttenberg) needed for my historical novel research

30 fiction titles of various lengths and genres.

Could have done better, but I was busy… uhm… writing! ;-)

I have given reviews at the time of reading, but let's see what lights a bulb in my head at reading a title: if it's on the list, it means I recommend it, because I still remember what it's about! :-D

OK, the memory Amaranthine series is still quite fresh, all three books of them (although I might have read the first six months ago, but that's how good books work. You can't let them go!). So if you're a vampire lover, go check them all (and then we can poke the author in putting out the next book together, LOL).

Jonathan Gould's lovely little novels are also still on my mind, for their humor and wisdom behind the satire.

I loved Dicky's story as well – maybe precisely because it didn't fit in one specific genre (the author says Inspirational, but it wasn't a boring Inspirational read – and I'm very sensitive to someone trying to preach to me! ;-) ).

Then I'd recommend C.S.Splitter's Tom Crayder series for some action and mystery, and of course Dean Wesley Smith's Think like a publisher for the non-fiction recommendations…

My TBR pile isn't going down – I have even more paper books than before + a long list on my Smashwords library of ebooks to buy + some titles on my Kindle (they don't send reminders to review, so I bought a batch, but still have to go through them), so please DO NOT send me any reading recommendations. I'm afraid I'm all set until 2015! :-)

I'm not making plans on how much I want to read next year (so I won't put my goal on Goodreads either), but I hope to go through at least half of the list… (wishful thinking, I'm afraid! :-( ). Anyway, I'll post reviews whenever I find something I like – no reviews under 3 stars because I feel there's enough negativity on the internet, so that's my policy! ;-)