STL #122:2017 Reading (From a notebook)

2017

1. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Russia House and Night Manager also stood out. So many options, but chose this because it contrasts with A Spy Among Friends. 
2. The world of Archie: First and foremost Mark Waid's Archie,  but also Afterlife and especially The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (the most metal book of the year) 
3. The Conan comics of Roy Thomas and Barry (Windsor) Smith. Compared with REH, Busiek, and Wood/Cloonan, this may be the best. 
4. Binging comics on Marvel Unlimited. Saga to Adam Warlock and Man-Thing to Mockingbird to Black Widow and Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. It's all good.
5. New Jim Crow. The most influential book on me personally, politically speaking. 
6. On Tyranny. The second most influential book on me personally, politically speaking. 
7. Spock's World. The best part is that the devotion to logic is essentially an irrational, religious commitment. 
8. Hangsaman. The girl Tony.
9. Refrigerator Monologues. Gail Simone's enduring legacy. 
10. Real Life Rock. Greil Marcus.

STl #121: 2016 in Reading

Yes, this post is over one year late.  These are not ranked, though I read Weetzie Bat twice.

1. Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block
2. Misery by Stephen King
3. Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. I Capture the Castle  by Dodie Smith
5. True Grit by Charles Portis
6. Atonement by Ian McEwan
7. A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
8. The Vision by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez
9. Barbed Wire Elmer Kelton
10. The Scar by China Mieville