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Engelbrecht
Posted 2016-12-12 1:02 AM (#14693 - in reply to #12239)
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I decided to use this challenge to show my top 10 Reads of the Year.

This year, I added two new favorites - Franz Kafka's Castle and Jamie Williamson's nonfiction The Evolution of Modern Fantasy, so it was something of a banner year for me.  I wasn't too sure what to expect from Marge Piercy's He, She and It, but it was a strikingly impressive book.  Tanith Lee's Flat Earth series, starting off with Night's Master, was just lovely - beautifully written with a poetic style that reminded me somewhat of Dunsany.  Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles was wonderful, as I said in my review of it.  The pieces in George Orwell's essay collection Facing Unpleasant Facts gave me a great sense of the man behind 1984.  And Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky lived up to lofty expectations.  All in all, it was a great year.

Dusty, I'm sorry to hear of the adversities in your life, but I hope for good things and good books for you in the coming year.

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