Shelly Bryant

Hit (or Miss) List, January ’10

Sunday, January 31, 2010

January was another good month for catching up on a lot of reading I’ve left dangling for a while.  I made a little more progress on my Fill in the Gaps list and on the books I hope to read this year.

Here’s what I’ve been reading and watching in January:

Hit List

1. •    House of Many Ways (Diana Wynne Jones)
2. •    2001 and 2010 (movies)
3. •    The Return of the King (movie)
4. •    Intrinsic Night (J. E. Stanley and Joshua Gage)
5. •   The Book of Salt (Monique Truong)
6. •    Dwarf Stars 2009 (Deborah P. Kolodji and Stephen M. Wilson, ed.)
7. •    Attack of the Two-Headed Poetry Monster (Mark McLaughlin and Michael McCarty)
8. •    Twigs & Knucklebones (Sarah Lindsay)
9. •    The Rubiayat (Omar Khayyam)
10. •    The Blind Side (movie)
11. •    A Freed Woman’s Dance (Doris Cope)
12. •    The Story of King Arthur and His Knights (Howard Pyle)
13. •    Voices (Ursula LeGuin)
14. •    Directed Verdict (Randy Singer)

Catching up on a couple of magazines:

Asia Literary Review, Elixir (back issues)

Star*Line, Scifaikuest, Not One of Us (most recent issue)

Miss List

No misses in January!

Neither Hit nor Miss

1. •    Mental Fight (Ben Okri)
2. •    Hum (Ann Lauterbach)

So, what have you been reading and watching this past month?