Okay, some friends are tweeting what they read this year. Sounds fun. Maybe I'll read more, too? (This year was... slow.) #2021books
Book 1: The Fisherman, by John Langan. Loved the bizarre dark fantasy novella in the middle of this book—the historical narrative is pure gaaah.
Book 1: The Fisherman, by John Langan. Loved the bizarre dark fantasy novella in the middle of this book—the historical narrative is pure gaaah.
Book 2: Mouse Guard 3: The Black Axe. Yes, I'm counting graphic novels, and this was a fun one, sort of a gritty flashback prologue telling the backstory of a mysterious character from earlier in the series. Can't wait till my son digs into these in a few years... #2021books
Book 3: Art and Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland: A purgative for the ridiculously high expectations creators use to cripple themselves. Worth it if 2020 put your creative energies through the wringer. #2021books
(@NMamatas recommended it someplace or other: thanks Nick!)
(@NMamatas recommended it someplace or other: thanks Nick!)
Book 4: Twentieth-Century Harmony by Vincent Persichetti: extremely lucid, if slightly dry, treatment of modern ("conservatory") musical theory. This is one to read a bit at a time, bit of a firehose all at once. The exercises look fun and also *very* challenging. #2021books
Book 5: Kuunmong: The Cloud Dream of the Nine by Kim Manjung, trans. James S. Gale (1922). (@kurodahan's reprint)
Buddhist dream-fable about being careful what you yearn for, because samsara means even getting it all leads to suffering and back to spiritual yearnings. #2021books
Buddhist dream-fable about being careful what you yearn for, because samsara means even getting it all leads to suffering and back to spiritual yearnings. #2021books
Book 6: Thoreau's Microscope by Michael Blumlein is mindbendingly wonderful and strange—everything I wished for after rereading The Brains of Rats years ago.
And there's more since—All I Ever Dreamed (2018)! (Sadly we lost him in 2019.)
#2021books
And there's more since—All I Ever Dreamed (2018)! (Sadly we lost him in 2019.)
#2021books
Book 7: The Fall of Delta Green by Kenneth Hite. A big fat RPG book full of cool horrible stuff.
I dug it and look forward to running it, even if bits were a little overwhelming!
#2021books
I dug it and look forward to running it, even if bits were a little overwhelming!
#2021books
Book 8: an ARC of I’m Waiting For You by our friend Kim Bo-Young, (translation: Sophie Bowman and Sung Ryu).
Cool collection of paired stories with lovely extras. Lovers separated by time dilation, Bangsian afterlife fantasy with a SFnal twist…
Out in April! #2021books
Cool collection of paired stories with lovely extras. Lovers separated by time dilation, Bangsian afterlife fantasy with a SFnal twist…
Out in April! #2021books
Book 9: "On a Bank by Moonlight" by Gareth Ryder Hanrahan is 1. Half of a Free RPG Day book and 2. a solid Fall of Delta Green scenario I’ll be stealing pieces from for something of my own in an upcoming game. (Bit of a cheat, but a crucially helpful read for me.)
#2021books
#2021books
Huh, the book thread chain somehow got split. Here's the link to where it picked up.
https://twitter.com/gordsellar/status/1372158523954565121
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