2017 Recap: Books

Hi!  It feels weird to be posting so many times but I wanted to squeeze in a timely recap of books for the year.  I won't give you any book reports, though.

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Italicized is a book I have never read before.   
Italicized and bolded is never read and a new-to-me author.

1. Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
2. Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)
3. Farmer Boy (Wilder)
4. On the Banks of Plum Creek (Wilder)
5. On the Shores of Silver Lake (Wilder)
6. The Long Winter (Wilder)
7. Little Town on the Prairie (Wilder)
8. These Happy Golden Years (Wilder)
9. The First Four Years (Wilder) 
10. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (J. K. Rowling)
11. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling)
12. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Rowling)
13. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
14. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)
15. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Rowling)
16. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Rowling)
17. The Color of Magic (Terry Pratchett)
18. The Light Fantastic (Pratchett)
19. Equal Rights (Pratchett)
20. Mort (Pratchett)
21. Sourcery (Pratchett)
22. Wyrd Sisters (Pratchett)
23. Pyramids (Pratchett)
24. Guards! Guards! (Pratchett)
25. Faust Eric (Pratchett)
26. Moving Pictures (Pratchett)
27. Reaper Man (Pratchett)
28. Witches Abroad (Pratchett)
29. Small Gods (Pratchett)
30. Lords and Ladies (Pratchett)
31. Men at Arms (Pratchett) 
32. Soul Music (Pratchett) 
33. Interesting Times (Pratchett)
34. Maskerade (Pratchett)
35. Feet of Clay (Pratchett)
36. Hogfather (Pratchett)

After unpacking our books post-move, I felt the need for familiar, easy books that I love and that would serve as a pick-me-up.  The Wilder books were given to little-me as a boxset from one of my father's college professors.  My copies are very well read at this point.  I've always particularly loved The Long Winter.

It was past time to do the almost sort of annual reread of Harry Potter.  At least these are hardcover and can stand the abuse!  No Cursed Child, never again, boooo hisssss.

And then, after joining the new local yarn group, they roped me into a summer reading challenge, which I'm pleased to say I not only completed, but also won the drawing for a gift certificate to a local restaurant!  The Discworld series fit in nicely with some of the options, and after a spectacular enabling essay from Jo, I dove in!  I decided to stick with publication order as it was easiest for me to keep track of where I was.  All of our local libraries function as one and we also have the option to request books from any library in the state.  Because I often had to wait for the next one(s) to come in, progress slowed as the year aged.  I didn't quite make it halfway through though I started reading the series in June. So far, I've greatly enjoyed Equal Rights, Small Gods, and all the Witches and Rincewind books.  (Rincewind may or may not make me an oddity in the Discworld fandom but I just loved his personality and timing haha.)  There were a few I didn't really love, at least not as much as the others (such as Moving Pictures and most of the Watchmen series).  And it was a bit fitting to be reading Hogfather at Christmastime!  I promise that wasn't planned.  It took this book for me to fall head-over-heels for Death.  :)

I did not include any manga.  After thinking about that, I might try a separate list for them in 2018, at least for completed series.  I'm sure this year I was well over 200 for this genre alone!  I read a lot of manga, though many are one-shots (basically one chapter) and almost all of them are online.  I do  have a nice collection of my own on my "geeky" bookshelf.  I will keep track of them by completed series, not a separate line for each individual book (volume).  I'm not sure how to go about including ongoing series.  Perhaps I should just omit them or I'd really wind up with a plate of Spaghetti-Os.

You know, I guess I did pretty well on books this year. :)  No new-to-me authors but that's okay.  Sometimes familiar favorites make things better.

And that's it for this year's posts!  I'll see you all on the other side. :D

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:* HAPPY NEW YEAR! *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧