2012-12-31

Entry tags:

writing

Completed Writing Projects 2012

One of Us is Yellow: Dr Fu-Manchu and the Talons of Weng-Chiang essay for Doctor Who and Race
Riding Sunshine short story
Documentary short story

Entry tags:

books

Books read 2012

Chinua Achebe. No Longer At Ease.
Isaac Asimov. The Caves of Steel.
-- The Naked Sun.
Chris Boucher. Corpse Marker.
Frances Hodgson Burnett. The Secret Garden.
Helene Chung. Ching Chong China Girl: From Fruitshop to Foreign Correspondent.
Richard Condon. The Manchurian Candidate.
Nick Dear. Frankenstein.
Samuel R. Delaney. Babel-17.
Suzette Haden Elgin. Earthsong: Native Tongue III.
Buchi Emecheta. Second-Class Citizen.
Ian Fleming. Dr No.
Sarah Hall. The Carhullan Army.
Dashiell Hammett. The Maltese Falcon.
Roger Hargreaves. Mr. Topsy-Turvy. Shut up, it counts.
Christopher Isherwood. A Single Man.
Jon Klassen. I Want My Hat Back. I laughed, I cried, it changed my life.
Lois May. Transgenders and intersexuals: everything you ever wanted to know but couldn't think of the question: a resource book for the general community.
Iris Murdoch. The Sandcastle.
John Ray. The Rosetta Stone and the Rebirth of Ancient Egypt.
Ian Sample. Massive: the Hunt for the God Particle.
Neal Stephenson. REAMDE.
Robert Louis Stevenson. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Dennis Wheatley. The Devil Rides Out.

Notable short stories:
An Su-gil, "The Third Human Type", in a 1970 anthology of Korean short stories and plays. It's about a writer whose career is disrupted by the war; the last sentences took my breath away.

( Books bought and borrowed )