sábado, 2 de enero de 2016

2015 in books: quality reigned and quantity sucked

As I said before, 2015 was a bad in year in terms of reading and reviewing. Between looking for work, dealing with the problems that come from having no income, the new gig, the two books, gym, life, and the rest of it, I didn't get even close to 200 books. Sadly, it was also the first since 2013 that I haven't cracked at least 120 books. In any case, I managed to tackle some monsters (Sattin, Ligotti, and VanderMeer, for example) and read some truly outstanding novels. I also started reading some great stuff and never finished it, so the 20 books or so that are in various stages shall be restarted this year. Yeah, I'm going to try to read 200 books in 2016. I even got the Goodreads app thingy so I can keep track. More about that later. Here's what I finished in 2015 in no particular order.
 
1. Skullcrack City by Jeremy Robert Johnson
2. Asura Girl by Otaro Maijo
3. The Lost Level by Brian Keene
4. First Yeah Healthy by Michael DeForge
5. Find Me by Laura van den Berg
6. Bipolar Cowboy by Noah Cicero
7. Satanas by Mario Mendoza
8. Something Good, Something Bad, Something Dirty by Brian Alan Ellis
9. Area X by Jeff VanderMeer  
10. Arrows of Rain by Okey Ndibe
11. Naked Friends by Justin Grimbol
12. The Afflictions by Vikram Paralkar
13. Winterswim by Ryan W. Bradley
14. Worm by Anthony Neil Smith 
15. Mercy House by Adam Cesare
16. Today I Am A Book by xTx
17. How to Pose for Hustler by Andrea Kneeland
18. Visions by Troy James Weaver
19. Live Bait by Cameron Pierce
20. Revenge is a Redhead by Phil Beloin Jr.
21. Dodgeball High by Bradley Sanders
22. Jigsaw Youth by Tiffany Scandal
23. Black Gum by J David Osborne
24. GYO by Junji Ito
25. Morte by Robert Repino
26. The Abortion by Richard Brautigan
27. Goodbye to the Nervous Apprehension by Michael Heald
28. F-250 by Bud Smith
29. The Children of Old Leech edited by Ross E. Lockhart and Justin Steele
30. SNAFU: Heroes by various
31. Exponential by Adam Cesare
32. My Documents by Alejandro Zambra
33. Ocean Beach by Frank Cassese
34. Thieves Fall Out by Gore Vida
35. A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
36. The Silence by Tim Lebbon
37. i want love so great by Calvero
38. New Yorked by Rob Hart
39. Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
40. Arafat Mountain by Mike Kleine
41. Witchita Stories by Troy James Weaver
42. Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
43. The Up-Down by Barry Gifford
44. Sanctuary by Ken Bruen
45. New Yorked by Rob Hart
46. Gun Machine by Warren Ellis
47. The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell
48. Get It While You Can by Nick Jaina
49. Paradise Sky by Joe Lansdale
50. Stealing Propeller Hats From The Dead by David James Keaton 
51. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti 
52. Boiled Americans by Michael Allen Rose
53. Everything Used to Work by Robert Spencer
54. Border Lore: Folktales and Legends of South Texas by David Bowles
55. Tables Without Chairs #1 by Bud Smith and Brian Alan Ellis
56. Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco
57. No Moon by Julie Reverb
58. Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
59. Desolation of Avenues Untold by Brandon Hobson
60. The Paper Man by Gallagher Lawson
61. Haints Stay by Colin Winnette
62. OG Dad by Jerry Stahl
63. White Crocodile by K.T. Medina
64. Strange Animals by Chad Kultgen
65. Where Bears Roam the Streets by Jeff Parker
66. Skinner by David Bernstein 
67. The Incoming Tide by Cameron Pierce
68. Sucker June by Sean Kilpatrick 
69. The Cult of Loretta by Kevin Maloney 
70. The Revelator by Robert Kloss
71. Outdancing the Universe by Lauren Gilmore
72. Bad Sex by Clancy Martin
73. Safe Inside the Violence by Christopher Irvin
74. The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura
75. Martin and John by Dale Peck
76. Killing Auntie by Andrzej Bursa
77. A Negro and an Ofay by Danny Gardner
78. Gestapo Mars by Victor Gischler
79. Mercy House by Adam Cesare 
80. The New York Stories by Ben Tanzer
82. The Lost Treasures of R&B by Nelson George
83. The Dream Keeper and Other Poems by Langston Hughes
84. The Silent End by Samuel Sattin
85. The Strangest by Michael J. Seidlinger
86. The Last Weekend by Nick Mamatas

I also read about a dozen graphic novels and three or four books for children every night. Those are awesome. Happy reading, lovely creatures.