Books 2019

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Books I read this year: (~)50, a bit fewer than originally planned but not too bad. Most of them in February and July-September, and almost none since October, when I started my new job.

Stats: 16 books by men, 32 by women, 2 anthologies; a slightly bigger percentage written by men than last year. 6 by PoC, I think, as far as I'm aware. 1 book in German. 1 graphic novel.
Genres: 38 fantasy (39 if I count mythology), 7 SF, 4 romance with SFF elements, 0 other.

Favorite books read this year: "The Kingdom of Gods", "Children of Ruin", "Foundryside."
Favorite series: "The Inheritance Trilogy", "The Gardener's Hand", "Echoes of the Fall", "Winternight."
Books I most look forward to in 2020: Mostly I look forward to reading those I already have but haven't read yet, but I hope "Peace Talks," the next Dresden Files novel, will be good.

Comments

[scintilla10]

Thanks for sharing -- I love hearing about others' year of reading. :)

I haven't heard about The Gardener's Hand series - can you say a little more about it? (or link to a post about it if you've written about it and I missed it?)

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You're welcome :)

All I posted about The Gardener's Hand is this. I picked it up on a rec from dolorosa_12, which gives a good overview. Though I'm happy to answer more questions about it :) The worldbuilding was interesting, but I especially liked the main characters and their relationship, and all the wonderful h/c.

[scintilla10]

Cool, thank you! They sound great.

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I hope you enjoy them, if you check them out :)

[merit]

The Gardener's Hand was a good way to start 2019 for me as well. I might check out what David has also published - seems they have a sci-fi m/m series being published currently!

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I'm really looking forward to Ilyr's book! I hope it'll come out soon.

[nonesensed]

Yay, book stats! I love these kind of posts, thank you for sharing :D

I'm on the third book in "The Inheritance Trilogy" right now and I'm loving this series! Thank you so much for the rec <3

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I'm so glad you enjoy it! Thanks for telling me. The third book was my favorite :D

[nonesensed]

I'm only ~150 pages into book 3, but enjoying it thus far :) Will likely post a bit about it on my blog once I'm finally through it, so there will be gushing - I'm just savoring the story for now, like fine wine ;)