I read a lot of books this year. 147 books to be precise (unless I read another book today making it 148, but that seems unlikely).<\/p>\n
I found several new series that I quite enjoyed: Another comic I enjoyed was Madame Xanadu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Patricia Briggs Mercy Thompson series was made into a comic with Mercy Thompson: Homecoming<\/a>. It tells how Mercy came to the tri-city area.<\/p>\n Tempest Rising<\/a> by Nicole Peeler is a supernatural fantasy that is quite different from others out there, as the creatures are more out of folklore than horror.<\/p>\n I also stumbled upon Soulless<\/a> by Gail Carriger, which is a Victorian fantasy with vampires and werewolves. I love Victorian settings.<\/p>\n Rob Thurman<\/a> started a new series (at least I hope it’s a new series) with Trick of the Light<\/a>. I love Trickster characters, so she was going to have to work to not make me like this book. She also had a new book in the Cal Leandros series out, Deathwish<\/a>.<\/p>\n Faith Hunter’s Skinwalker<\/a> series was a nice surprise, although I was less enamored with her Rogue Mage series.<\/p>\n If you have not read Sergi Lukyanenko<\/a> Night Watch series, this is a good time to go back and do so, as Last Watch<\/a> just came out in English.<\/p>\n I thoroughly enjoyed The Stepsister Scheme<\/a> by Jim C. Hines–a nice twist on fairy tale characters. Not quite as good as Fables<\/a>, which also has a new volume out, with The Dark Ages<\/a> but both are very good.<\/p>\n Several good anthologies came out in 2009 as well. Mean Streets<\/a> was one of my favorites, with stories by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, and Thomas E. Sniegoski. With the exception of Laurell K Hamilton’s story (which I didn’t bother to read), Never After<\/a> was another good anthology, with stories that are twists on the happily ever after theme. The anthology Strange Brew<\/a> has stories by some of my favorite authors, including Jim Butcher, Patricia Briggs, and PN Elrod. One of the things I love about good anthologies is they introduce me to new authors, and this series gave me Faith Hunter and her character jane Yellowrock.<\/p>\n Of course I read far more books than these, and lots of books that had been published in previous years, but these are my highlights of 2009. <\/p>\n Check ’em out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I read a lot of books this year. 147 books to be precise (unless I read another book today making it 148, but that seems unlikely). I found several new series that I quite enjoyed: The comic NYX, is a slightly older series that tells the story of three teens who are trying to deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1090],"tags":[579],"class_list":["post-5818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-years-favorites","tag-what-ive-been-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-1vQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe comic NYX<\/a>, is a slightly older series that tells the story of three teens who are trying to deal with their mutant status.<\/p>\n