2013 Year in Review
Just as I said for 2012's review post, I'm writing this here
in the future (May 2014, to be exact). The reasons are personal and (unsurprisingly)
related to the large drop in the number of books I read in 2013, possibly my
lowest total ever since I first learned to discern letters and words in the
first place. I'm happy to note, however, that when I did read in 2013, I chose
good books, including two editions of a perennial favorite, The Best American Mystery Stories, and the
Newsflesh trilogy, which offered a refreshing take on the zombie trope and some
interesting future projections about technology and culture. I took on my first
Stephen King novel, 11/22/63 and was
not disappointed- I look forward to revisiting it. Sometimes, I guess, quality
matters over quantity, and I can't let myself get caught up in the writing to
the detriment of the reading. This is a scattered post, perhaps, but I promise
that more and better things (and, of course, more reviews) are coming.