This was the Year of Fantasy.
After I finished my graduate degree in May, I looked around me and realized I could read whatever I wanted. So instead of all the required reading I previously had to do (about thirty books a semester, give or take), I read Fantasy and Science Fiction.
And oh, how wonderful it was. I unabashedly read more genre this year than in any previous year. I reread the Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner. I read the second two Hundred Thousand Kingdoms books by N. K. Jemisin. I read as many Terry Pratchett books as I could reach. I read six novels by K. J. Parker (and Parker interprets “novel” as no fewer than five hundred pages, on point of honor). Six by Patricia A. McKillip, three by Caroline Stevermer. And I read a thousand-page anthology of science fiction stories.
I didn’t stop reading in Literary Fiction or Mystery or even Nonfiction, but I did go a little crazy on the reading-for-pleasure streak. I may not have read as many books this year as in years past, but it’s entirely possible that I enjoyed the reading more. Which is what matters, after all.
Goal for 2012: More Nonfiction!
What are your reading goals?
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