2016 în cărţi

2016 în cărţi

Pe la începutul anului, voiam să scriu un post retrospectiv despre întreaga mea activitate creativă pe 2016. Din păcate, m-au lovit trei impedimente: răceala, lenea şi pofta de a face orice altceva (jucat, citit, văzut seriale) în loc de a scrie.

Cum însă lenea duce la inventivitate şi eu tot vreau să par că am ceva de zis, am trişat acest post trântind lista generată automat de Goodreads cu tot ce am citit prin 2016.

Particip la Reading Challenge de prin 2011 şi, până acum, de fiecare dată am citit minimum o carte pe săptămână (adică mai mult de 52 pe an). 2016 însă a fost un an în care am preferat să scriu la propriul roman în loc să citesc atât de mult. Mi-am pus challengeul la 40 de cărţi şi la atâtea am rămas în final.

Nu toate au fost bune. De la cele două târguri de cărţi la care am participat anul trecut (Kilipirim şi Final Frontier; din păcate nu am reuşit să ajung la Gaudeamus), mi-am luat mai multe volume scrise de autori români. Eram curioasă ce e pe piaţă, cum se scrie în română, ce genuri sunt populare. Aproape toate pe care am apucat să le citesc până acum au fost o dezamăgire (din multe puncte de vedere). Simt însă că au fost o documentare bună pentru viitor.

Ca de obicei, m-am aruncat să citesc şi multe romane poliţiste, dintre care mi-a plăcut la nebunie concluzia de la Villain de Shuichi Yoshida.

Şi am mai citit ceva: multe cărţi despre scris/editat. Unele bune, altele mai puţin, preferatele mele fiind The Anatomy of Story (John Truby) şi Don’t murder your mystery (Chris Roerden). Au reuşit să pună în cuvinte nişte noţiuni pe care le aveam vag în mintea mea, dar pe care nu ştiam să le exploatez, însă le-am redescoperit şi implemetat apoi şi în cartea pe care o scriu.

Aşadar, iată lista:

Raluca’s bookshelf: 2016-reading-challenge

It's About Time: From Calendars and Clocks to Moon Cycles and Light Years - A History
really liked it
tagged:
history_mythology, nemucon-research, non-fiction, read-in-english, …
Prague in legends
really liked it
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, fun, history_mythology, and read-in-english
The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes
liked it
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writing-books, 2016-reading-challenge, nemucon-research, non-fictio…
The Chronological Man: The Monster In The Mist
it was ok
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, disappointment, and read-in-english
Don't Murder Your Mystery: 24 Fiction-Writing Techniques to Save Your Manuscript from Turning Up D.O.A.
it was amazing
tagged:
writing-books, 2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, mystery-…
The Art of War
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2016-reading-challenge, history_mythology, nemucon-research, non-fi…
The Force Awakens
liked it
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, read-in-english, and sf
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay
it was amazing
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, read-in-english, and sc…
Trine 2 Artbook
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2016-reading-challenge, albume, and non-fiction
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
it was amazing
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, non-fiction, read-in-en…
Skios
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2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, fun, read-in-english, t…
Stadt Ulmer Spatzen
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The Feather and the Moon Well
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2016-reading-challenge and read-in-english
A Tale of Red Riding: Rise of the Alpha Huntress
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2016-reading-challenge, history_mythology, and read-in-english
Filiera grecească
it was ok
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, mystery-crime-police, romanian-authors, and…
Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
it was ok
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writing-books, 2016-reading-challenge, disappointment, non-fiction,…
Making Story: Twenty-One Writers on How They Plot
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writing-books, 2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, mystery-…
Egyptian Diary: The Journal of Nakht
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2016-reading-challenge, children_literature, history_mythology, rea…
Sumbru ca sufletul meu
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tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, mystery-crime-police, and scandinavian
One Was a Soldier
liked it
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, mystery-crime-police, and read-in-english
Kieli, Volume 9: The Dead Sleep Eternally in the Wilderness, Part 2
it was amazing
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, light-novels, read-in-e…
Povestiri de la marginea realității
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tagged:
2016-reading-challenge and romanian-authors
I Shall Not Want
really liked it
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2016-reading-challenge, mystery-crime-police, fun, and read-in-english
Lupul Roșu
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2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, mystery-crime-police, t…
O hucă în minunatul Inand
it was ok
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2016-reading-challenge, romanian-authors, thought-challenging, and …
Pânza de păianjen
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tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, disappointment, romanian-authors, mystery-c…
Renegații
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2016-reading-challenge, mystery-crime-police, and scandinavian
The Girl with All the Gifts
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tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, read-in-english, and dystopian
Latin for All Occasions
really liked it
tagged:
fun, read-in-english, non-fiction, and 2016-reading-challenge
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
it was amazing
tagged:
read-in-english, 2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, though…
Evocative Description, Character, Dialogue, Foreshadowing and Where to Use Hooks
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non-fiction, writing-books, 2016-reading-challenge, read-in-english…
Action, Emotion, Surprise and More
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2016-reading-challenge, non-fiction, thought-challenging, writing-b…
Villain
it was amazing
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, mystery-crime-police, r…
Ice
liked it
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, read-in-english, winter, and history_mythology
Kieli, Volume 8: The Dead Sleep Eternally in the Wilderness, Part 1
really liked it
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, light-novels, and read-in-english
Kieli, Volume 7: As the Deep Ravine's Wind Howls
it was amazing
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, absolute-favorites, light-novels, read-in-e…
The Art of Alice: Madness Returns
it was amazing
tagged:
albume, non-fiction, thought-challenging, absolute-favorites, 2016-…
Planificarea strategică urbană - Un model
liked it
tagged:
2016-reading-challenge, architecture, non-fiction, and romanian-aut…
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
liked it
tagged:
read-in-english, sf, and 2016-reading-challenge
Star Wars - Episode II: Attack of the Clones
really liked it
tagged:
sf, read-in-english, and 2016-reading-challenge

 


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