The
Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2017
by Jennifer Marie Brissett
Between teaching and writing I somehow managed to
absorb many novels, mostly through audiobooks again. Here are a few that I
completed—
The
Accidental Alchemist and The Elusive Elixir By Gigi Pandian
The
Peter Rabbit Collection By Beatrix Potter (Narrated by
Emma Messenger)
Metro
2033 and Metro 2035 By Dimitry Glukhovsky
The
Girl with All the Gifts By M. R. Carey
Enigma
Tales: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine By Una McCormack
The
Black Tower by Louis Bayard
Basil
of Baker Street: The Great Mouse Detective
By Eve Titus – a fun children’s book parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories.
The
Man Who Fell to Earth
By
Walter Tevis
The
Left Hand of Darkness By Ursula K. Le Guin (Narrated by
George Guidall) – I’ve read this book several times and yet hearing it read to
me like this was a special pleasure.
The
Alienist By Caleb Carr
The
Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger By Stephen King
Roadside
Picnic By Arkady Strrugatsky – the novel that the Russian
science fiction film Stalker is based
on
The
Scar By China Mieville – I listened to this last year and
still enjoyed re-listening to this again. I think this is my second favorite
Mieville novel, my first being The City
& the City.
Jennifer Marie Brissett is a Jamaican-British American writer living in New York who has been a software engineer, web designer, and independent bookseller. Her short fiction has appeared in The Future Fire, Morpheus Tales, Warrior Wisewoman 2, and other places. Aqueduct Press published her first novel, Elsyium, in 2014; it received a Special Citation for the Philip K. Dick Award and was a finalist for Locus's Best First Novel award. Check out her website at www.jennbrissett.com.
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