01 January 2013

Reading Roundup Wrapup: December 2012

Pick of the month: Middlemarch by George Eliot. It couldn't have been anything else, obviously, which was quite unfair to everything else.

As far as I know, I've never read this many books in one month in my life! Exam reading will do that to you, I suppose. It will also make sure that you do not have the time to write any of them up, however. (My previous record was 24 in March, but I read considerably fewer comics this time around.)

All books read:
1. Darwin and the Novelists: Patterns of Science in Victorian Fiction by George Levine
2. Huxley: From Devil’s Disciple to Evolution’s High Priest by Adrian Desmond
3. Under the Management of Mr. Charles Dickens: his production of “The Frozen Deep” by Wilkie Collins, edited by Robert Louis Brannan
4. The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender
5. Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science by Srdjan Smajić
6. The New Adventures: Walking to Babylon by Kate Orman
7. Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Gillian Beer
8. Fact and Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination by Jonathan Smith
9. Superman: Last Son of Krypton by Elliot S. Maggin
10. The Medusa Effect: Representation and Epistemology in Victorian Aesthetics by Thomas Albrecht
11. Metamorphoses of Science Fiction: On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre by Darko Suvin
12. Doctor Who: Short Trips #27: Christmas Around the World edited by Xanna Eve Chown
13. A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
14. ThermoPoetics: Energy in Victorian Literature and Science by Barri J. Gold
15. The Flight to Objectivity: Essays on Cartesianism and Culture by Susan Bordo
16. Caustic Comedies: Plays For The Stage by Robert Shearman
17. Middlemarch by George Eliot
18. Scientific London by Bernard H. Becker
19. Deucalion: Collected Studies of the Lapse of Waves, and Life of Stones by John Ruskin
20. The View from Nowhere by Thomas Nagel
21. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Revised Edition) by J. R. R. Tolkien
22. The New Republic, or Culture, Faith, and Philosophy in an English Country House by W. H. Mallock
23. Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative by Lisa Zunshine
24. Science and Culture and Other Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
25. The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
26. Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century by Laura Otis
27. The Creed of Science: Religious, Moral, and Social by William Graham
28. Sympathy and Science: Women Physicians in American Medicine by Regina Markell Morantz-Sanchez

All books acquired:
1. Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction by Gillian Beer
2. 52 Omnibus by Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid, and Keith Giffen
3. Networking: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century by Laura Otis
4. The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
5. Young Avengers Presents by Ed Brubaker, Brian Reed, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Paul Cornell, Kevin Grevioux, and Matt Fraction
6. 52 Aftermath: The Four Horsemen by Keith Giffen
7. Legion of Super-Heroes: 1,050 Years of the Future edited by Anton Kawasaki
8. Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes by Geoff Johns
9. Captain Britain Omnibus by Alan Moore and Jamie Delano with Dave Thorpe, Paul Neary, Steve Craddock, Mike Collins, Alan Davis, Chris Claremont, and Mike Carlin
10. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
11. Captain Vorpatril's Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold
12. BBC VFX: The Story of the BBC Visual Effects Department, 1954-2003 by Mat Irvine and Mike Tucker
13. William Wells and Maconaquah, White Rose of the Miamis by Julia Gilman

A seemingly small yield, perhaps, but I have a number of books on order that have probably reached my house by now... only I'm not there. We'll see soon enough.

Books remaining on "To be read" list: 476

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