In anticipation of the 25th anniversary of my bookblogging, which will come in late 2028, I’m reposting my monthly summaries since November 2003 when I started. (I already did this in 2019-2023, but this gives me a chance to consolidate all the posts and links to this WordPress site rather than my old Livejournal.) Everything will be linked under the bookblog nostalgia tag.
No Crisis Group publications in June 2005, 21 years ago this month, though I did get quoted in the Financial Times again, and just the one trip, to Belfast to speak at a conference. And B had her eighth birthday.
Her birthday was also the day of the last episode of the first series of New Who.
Young F took the first steps towards freedom of movement (he is now preparing for his driving test):
And I did my traditional big review of the Hugo written fiction nominees.
I read only 7 books that month.
Non-fiction 2 (YTD 21)
The Best of Xero, by Pat and Dick Lupoff
With Stars In My Eyes: My Adventures in British Fandom, by Peter Weston
Non-genre fiction 1 (YTD 2)
The Trial, by Franz Kafka
SF 4 (YTD 36)
The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year’s Best Science Fiction, ed. Gardner Dozois
The Assassin’s Edge, by Juliet E. McKenna
The Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe
The Claw of the Conciliator, by Gene Wolfe
2,400 pages (YTD 22,700)
2/7 by women (YTD 16/63)
None by PoC
These are all good books, though I don’t rave about Gene Wolfe to the extent that others do. If I have to pick one as my favourite of the month, it’s Gardner Dozois’ Best of the Best, which you can get here.
