not a resolution

[deadlightsgirl]

since nobody keeps those. Instead, I will call this a Xmas present for myself, to be completed by next Xmas. In the coming year, I will read 100 books I haven't read before, and see 100 movies I haven't already seen.  I'm off to an auspicious start - I read The Wee Free Men and A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett, and am watching The Sons of Katie Elder as we speak.  I'm going to count audio books, and just today started Huckleberry Finn (somehow that one has always eluded me).
Even if 2011 sucks as much as 2010 (and I pray god it doesn't), at least I'll be well entertained.
I'll keep you informed as to progress.

Comments

[ladyjoust.livejournal.com]

Did you like the Pratchett? There are two more Tiffany Aching books, and they get progressively more awesome (as does she).


ETA: and I do like this plan-not-resolution. Mayhap I shall aspire to the same, at least with books.

[tomincloset.livejournal.com]

Very much, now I need the next two. I found them to NOT have that thing that has always made me less of a Pratchett reader than I could be (that he gets so involved with being funny that I find myself getting irritated and thinking OKAY Terry, we know you're funny, now FOCUS please). Would you say that he is better about this in his later works? He's definitely on my list of writers for the year, especially if he has grounded himself a bit more (don't get me wrong, he is brilliant and I love his ideas - I just have enough ADD on my own).

Just think, you get to spend the whole next year recommending books to me (I am counting on this)!

[ladyjoust.livejournal.com]

That is most definitely the case with later Pratchett novels. I'll send you the list of the ones I think you'll particularly like. The City Watch books are probably my favorites, mostly because Vimes is thoroughly awesome. Pretty much anything with Susan Sto-Helit is a winner, too. But I ramble when I should be putting that list together.

And I am beyond delighted to rec books! :D

[tomincloset.livejournal.com]

I like Guards! Guards! even though it does have the ADD thing, mostly because the whole concept of L-space is so mind-bendingly wonderful. People have told me for years to read Soul Music (or whatever it's called), so that's on the list.

I just started the Connie Willis...did you give me that one because Dr Who has my non-sci-fi brain prepped for time travel? ;) I'm only a few pages in so I can't tell if I like it yet - does she have more things like Bellwether, which I love with extra love?

I also plan to read the book of True Grit. Diversifying is good.

[ladyjoust.livejournal.com]

Guards! Guards! is definitely the lightest of the City Watch books. Men at Arms gets a little darker/richer, and it just goes on from there. Night Watch was, for a long while, my favorite Discworld book. It's still up there, but so too is I Shall Wear Midnight. Soul Music is great (and features the aforementioned Susan, who is all kinds of practical and kick ass).

I've yet to find a Connie Willis that's quite like Bellwether. A lot of Willis lovers do NOT like that book, but I love it as you do. Many of her short stories have that sort of feel, and she's got a lot of Christmasy ones out there that tend to be screwball/romantic, which I adore.