Well… here we are, another year in the can. I didn’t read as much as I expected to, however, I had some marvelous adventures with the ones I did read. T. Kingfisher for the win! I rediscovered my love for fantasy this year, I haven’t read much fantasy in decades, it was all too similar in the 80s and 90s, basically LoTR fanfic, but a wave of new writers have appeared bringing in their own cultures, ideas and humor. I am, to quote the Brits, absolutely chuffed. So in that vein, - I gotta do something while I wait for a new Murderbot book - I am reading:
The Raven and the Reindeer by T.Kingfisher, a retelling of "The Snow Queen (filtered through Ursula’s off the wall humor)
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse, apocalylptic doings in a world modeled on ancient Pre Columbian Americas.
P.S… I Spook You by S.E. Harmon. Ghost hunting with the FBI …
Khadaji was one of the earlier members of SDMB, and he was well-known as a kindly person who always had something encouraging to say, particularly in the self-improvement threads. He was also a voracious, omnivorous reader, who started these threads 'way back in the Stone Age of 2005. Consequently, when he suddenly and quite unexpectedly passed away in January 2013, we decided to rename this thread in his honor and to keep his memory, if not his ghost, alive.