Plans for today.

Call Grandma
Get groceries
Take out garbage
Pick up mail [Photos of nephews!]
Pay rent
Clean kitchen
Vacuum.

Post list of 2004's memorable reads.
Post Sunshine review.
Pick books to read for January.*

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2004 Books

According to my records, this year I read 119 new books and 5 rereads:

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which was just about on target for the year.
( The most memorable: )

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From llygoden and aynathie

In the year 2005 I resolve to: Read the manual. Get your resolution here

Sunshine, by Robin McKinley

I don't read vampire stories, except in the rare cases (Barbara Hambly, I suppose Terry Pratchett) that they're by an author I already know and trust. Even at that, I didn't pick this one up in hardcover. I almost did, once, but I opened a bookstore copy at a random page and hit a sentence that clunked, so I resigned myself to waiting for the paperback.


Oddly enough, when I did come to read it, I didn't notice any clunkiness at all. Maybe that was because the narrator has a pretty distinctive if not literarily elegant style, and the story carried me along.

( My impressions, with spoilers )