2013 on Goodreads

Goodreads Year in Review

by Various

Whether or not you've had time to write your own reviews, here's a chance to review your entire 2013 reading and post it under this title so that others can see what your reading year was like. Together, all the reviews of 2013 on Goodreads should make an interesting and varied catalogue of books to inspire other readers in 2014.

For those of you who don't like to add titles you haven't actually 'read', you can place 2013 on Goodreads on an 'exclusive' shelf. Exclusive shelves don't have to be listed under 'to read', 'currently reading' or 'read'. To create one, go to 'edit bookshelves' on your 'My Books' page, create a shelf name such as 'review-of-the year' and tick the 'exclusive' box. Your previous and future 'reviews of the year' can be collected together on this dedicated shelf.

Concept created by Fionnuala Lirsdottir in 2014 (Goodreads in 2013 was added retrospectively by Monica)
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Cover art: Paul Cézanne, The Blue Vase, 1887
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Genres: Reference

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First published January 1, 2013

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Reviews

[Jayson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every Rating & Review for 2013

Joined Goodreads: July 11, 2013

Goya by Robert Hughes
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 07/26/2013
Notes: Hughes gushes over Goya's genius, is an apologist for his lesser works, and castigates Fernando VII as a monstrosity.

Dead Ever After by Charlaine Harris
(C+) 65% | Almost Satisfactory | ⭐ – 08/01/2013
Notes: Former supporting players form a mystery-solving super-team, reminisce, run about, while the mystery solves itself.

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling
(A-) 81% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/09/2013
Notes: Its eager vulgarity is akin to Disney actresses trying to shed good-girl reputations by over-correcting their next roles.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
(A-) 81% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/13/2013
Notes: Ironically, it's the supernatural characters that follow familiar archetypes, while the humans are strange and atypical.

The Arctic Incident by Eoin Colfer
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/15/2013
Notes: A Bond villain, his henchman, and their arch enemies go on a road trip, they bond, and have a Bond style adventure.

The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/17/2013
Notes: Wherein characters edge toward the brink of life-altering change, only to stop and revert at the last possible moment.

The Opal Deception by Eoin Colfer
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/19/2013
Notes: Wherein characters experience life-altering change, and the villain is partial to absent murder by complex deathtrap.

The Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
(A-) 83% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/22/2013
Notes: It's about puberty, instability and bodily change, with a rescue plot practically a beat-for-beat mirror of the first book.

The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
(A-) 84% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/24/2013
Notes: Treats adolescence as a mind-altering drug and youth as a more singularly-focused, less compunctious state of being.

The Atlantis Complex by Eoin Colfer
(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/26/2013
Notes: Killing time before the final book, it's an excuse to bring the team all together and facilitate comedy and camaraderie.

The Last Guardian by Eoin Colfer
(A-) 84% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 08/28/2013
Notes: A series that's lived off Chekhov's Gun sees its most poignant use. The usual peril is boosted by bursts of emotionality.

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
(A-) 84% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 09/02/2013
Notes: We make pilgrimage to the landmarks of our childhood, in vain, to revive somehow the magic and wonder of youth.

The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan
(B) 74% | More than Satisfactory | ⭐⭐⭐ – 10/04/2013
Notes: Frantic, hollow, and artificial. [And, no! Parenthetical bickering does not reinforce presence, it just sounds contrived.]

The Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan
(B) 75% | More than Satisfactory | ⭐⭐⭐ – 12/18/2013
Notes: To work well, magical problem solving needs precedent. When 'anything goes' there's no tension. It's deus ex machina.

[☘Misericordia☘ ⚡ϟ⚡⛈⚡☁ ❇️❤❣ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some of the 2013 haul:

[Werner]

In her review of 2023 on Goodreads, my Goodreads friend Cecily commented that these annual summaries have been a Goodreads tradition “since 2013.” That greatly surprised me, since I'd always assumed that the “20__ on Goodreads feature” came into being in 2014, the year I stumbled onto it. But investigation revealed that Goodreads DID introduce the feature in 2013; they just never bothered to announce it. My first reaction was to feel gypped by their failure to communicate, since I really enjoy doing these summaries! But it occurred to me that this discovery affords the opportunity to do a look back to my reading of ten years ago, from the vantage point of the present, and see what's changed or remained the same in my reading patterns. Probably this isn't of much interest to anyone else; but for myself, I thought the trip back in time might be some nostalgic fun, if nothing else. So, here's my long-delayed review of 2013 on Goodreads!

My total number of books read that year was in the usual range, at least 30 (34, in this case). My Year in Books (here: https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i... ) credits me with 41. But six of those were short e-stories; and there's also some confusion over the numbering of The Deed of Paksenarrion. The latter, which was perhaps my favorite read of the year, is an omnibus volume containing an entire epic fantasy trilogy by Elizabeth Moon, and weighing in at 1,090 pages. I ultimately reviewed it as a unit (the story arc of the second book does not stand on its own very well) and counted it as one book in my own tally. But I'd previously reviewed the first novel of the three, Sheepfarmer's Daughter, separately, so Goodreads counted that one as a book in its own right. (Due to its great length, this was also the only book Barb and I actually finished reading together that year.)

Measured by reading satisfaction, 2013 was an unusually good year. A single book earned a one-star rating; but all the others were at least rated at three, with nine receiving four and a whopping majority of 20 commanding no less than five. As an adult reader, I've tended not to reread books very often (I did that more when I was a kid); true to form, all of my 2013 reads were new to me. Also as usual, most of my reading was in paper format; only six books were read as e-books. For me, this is actually a higher figure than usual; that fact is related to the also above-average number of review copies and beta reads that year. A dozen books were of that type, and five of them came to me in electronic format. But group reads were relatively sparse compared to those in recent years; I took part in just four, in as many groups.

The figure of ten short story collections read that year set a record I've never equaled in any year since (though 2015 would come close). Back then, I didn't take part in any challenges. If the Action Heroine Fans group had started its annual challenge that year, though (rather than later, in 2016) 14 of my 2013 books would have counted for it. (Since then, I've only equaled that figure once.) Both of these high figures stemmed from the same two causes: several books in both groups were part of the relatively large number of review copies, and several others came from the weekly flea market that was then still held in this area but, sadly, no longer is. (Two of the regular vendors were used book dealers, whose stalls were the first ones I'd go to. :-) )

It wouldn't be until a few years later that I started making a point of including poetry in my reading; but I did read one prose nonfiction book that year. Although I almost never read memoirs, the reviews in the library trade journals for Heart in the Right Place by Carolyn Jourdan caught my attention when it was first published, and I was glad that 2013 was the year I finally read it. It earned five stars from me, and I'd recommend it highly.

Although, for the last several years, my fiction reading has skewed more heavily towards descriptive rather than speculative fiction, for a couple of decades and more it was the other way around. That was still the case in 2013; of 33 fiction books read, 19 were solidly in the speculative genres and only 11 in the descriptive realm. (Three of the anthologies included stories of both types.) Supernatural fiction dominated the first group; I read a dozen books in that category. Another six reads were evenly split between fantasy and science fiction. Though it's certainly speculative, the remaining book of the 19, The Great Divorce by C. S. Lewis (which was a group read) was hard to classify genre-wise. The second group was more scattered in that respect; the mystery genre was the most represented with four titles, and action-adventure/espionage a close second with three. A couple of more books fell into the Western genre, and I also read one book each of general fiction and historical fiction.

Generally, my fiction reading choices mainly stick to authors whose work I've read before, with just a sprinkling of new-to-me authors. But that pattern was totally reversed in 2013; out of 26 fiction books that had single authors, just a half dozen were by writers already familiar to me. Besides Lewis, these included Agatha Christie and Robert E. Howard, whose Murder on the Orient Express and The Sword Woman both got high ratings from me. Both of these books, and the Lewis book, were also the only ones I read that year with content all of which was definitely old enough to be considered classic (I generally use 1950 as my rough cut-off date for that). My Goodreads friend Krisi Keley was the only contemporary author in this group; I'd previously read some vampire fiction by her, and in 2013 read her duology (so far; her health hasn't allowed her to write more for a number of years) The Friar Tobe Fairy Tale Mystery Files, which are occult detective yarns with plots suggested by traditional fairy/folk tales. (I gave both of these books five stars; like many books by independent authors, they're not nearly as well known as they deserve to be.)

A number of books by new-to-me authors were read as review copies. Among these, the two standouts were the story collection Paradise Revisited by Canadian Goodreads author Shane Joseph, set in his native Sri Lanka, and The Last Stratiote by LeAnn Neal Reilly. The title character of the latter took me way outside my comfort zone; but ultimately I gave both books five stars, and went on to greatly like several more books by both authors, who became and remain valued Goodreads friends. Other new writers (including Elizabeth Moon, mentioned above; her book was a flea market find, and I was more wiling to take a chance on new authors when I could buy their books very cheaply in that venue!) I discovered on my own –sometimes aided by recommendations from friends. At the time, I was going through a phase of exploring urban fantasy, a subgenre in which I'd read only very little before, so I read four series openers in that field: Skinwalker (Jane Yellowrock) by Faith Hunter, Storm Front (the Dresden Files) by Jim Butcher, The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co.) by Jonathan Stroud, and Magic Bites (Kate Daniels) by “Ilona Andrews.” All of these got high ratings from me, though I didn't pursue any of the series very far (or in most cases at all). Though not urban fantasy, another series I started that year was Susan Collins' Hunger Games trilogy, of which I read and greatly liked the first two books. (I felt she dropped the ball badly with the last book, but I didn't read that one until a subsequent year.) Although it got four stars, I'd hoped to give The Lady in the Loch by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (which features Sir Walter Scott as an occult detective of sorts) the full five; though the premise was potentially very good, I felt that the execution didn't live up to it as well as it could have. But the one real disappointment was the one-star read, Granny is a Werewolf by an author I won't embarrass by naming. I “won” this in a Goodreads giveaway; but I wouldn't call it a prize, and that has nothing to do with it's being written for kids. (Intelligent, well-written children's books can be great reads for adults. This isn't one of them, and I'd have considered it a poor read even when I was a kid.)

Of the anthologies without a single author, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century here. Any mystery fan will find a lot of selections to like there!

Filling in this gap in my reading record has been a great trip down memory lane, and I'm glad I discovered I could make that excursion. :-) (Thanks, Cecily!)

[Jessaka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Only two books get high marks this year:

A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

I was introduced to Capote when reading this book. I can’t tell you how much I love it and his other Christmas and Thanksgiving story.

A Movable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway

I have never been interested in Hemmingway, but we read a book about him in our book group, and I thought to check this out. Beautiful writing.

[مجید اسطیری · Rating 4 out of 5]

فکر کنم من دارم تقلب بزرگی مرتکب می‌شوم که مطالعات سالهای قبل از گودریدزم را می‌نویسم اما شما به بزرگواری خودتان ببخشید. چیز زیادی هم یادم نمانده.
دی 91 داشتم درس می‌خواندم برای آزمون ارشد ادبیات. شاید درستش این بود که فقط دو هفته خیلی جنگی نگاهی به منطق الطیر بیندازم و بیشتر بروم سراغ شاهنامه و تاریخ بیهقی که توی آزمون ازشان بیشتر سوال می‌آمد اما من دنگم گرفته بود صبح ها بنشینم توی تالار مطالعه و یک ماه هر روزم را با دو ساعت منطق الطیر خواندن شروع می‌کردم و هر جا که شفیعی ارجاعات قرآنی و تاریخی اثر عطار را آورده بود می‌رفتم به دنبال آن ارجاع. دوستان این نوع کتاب خواندن را تجربه کنید. خیلی کیف می‌دهد.
شبهای بهمن برای آزمون ارشد گزیده تاریخ بیهقی نشر جامی را می‌خواندم
اسفند سیرالملوک میخواندم
فروردین 92 دو سه تا کار از نادر ابراهیمی خواندم و کتاب کندن پوست پیاز گونتر گراس
اردیبهشت جلد دوم آناکارنینا را خواندم
خرداد احوالم خیلی خراب بود
تیر 92 بدتر شدم. خدا نیاورد آن روزها را
مرداد با جلد پنج و شش کلیدر سرگرم بودم
شهریور خبر قبولی م آمد و کمی حالم بهتر شد. شبانه علامه
مهر به خاطر کلاس کلافه کننده و خواب آور دکتر عطرفی باز تاریخ بیهقی میخواندم
آبان و آذر چیزی یادم نیست

[Cecily · Rating 4 out of 5]

This wonderful tradition started before I started doing it in 2014.
But thanks to GR, I read lots of good things and enjoyed discussing them with my friends.

[M. Sarki · Rating 5 out of 5]

Two things. I am going to restrict this list to only include books I actually finished in 2013 and, as well, their being all, in my opinion, five-star wonders. I tend to compulsively read authors grouped into what I call studies as a way in which to deny my addictive nature, it seems, for buying books in bulk thinking I might want to read them at some point in my life. I already possess more books on my shelves than I could ever read in what remains of this lifetime, but my general practice is to continue to purchase additional reading possibilities to insure myself of some bullshit sense of immortality. Hence, I do own quite an extensive library of hardcover gems. If I really like an author I tend to read several books in a line until I get worn out by reading the same writer, or in some cases, bored.

My greatest discovery for 2013 was Josef Winkler. I doubt I will finish The Serf before I present this list, but I can include two other titles that just knocked me out. Those being When the Time Comes and Flowers for Jean Genet.

The book that saved my winter vacation back at the beginning of the year was The Tanners by Robert Walser. I also read Microscripts among other Walser titles I finished this year but these two were by far the best of the bunch.

W. G. Sebald was another writer I couldn’t be happier to have in my collection. Almost anything he wrote moved me in ways seldom achieved by most others. Even books about Sebald knocked me out and I cannot say enough good about this man and what a shame it is that he is no longer with us. Among the 2013 five star wonders were The Emigrants, Vertigo, On the Natural History of Destruction, A Place in the Country, Unrecounted, Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter, and The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W. G. Sebald.

Thomas Bernhard is another of my favorite writers and I reread Three Novellas and again gave it the five stars it deserves.

Stefan Zweig took up much of my reading time as well this past year and of all the fiction I read of his I rated Confusion the highest and also was thrilled with his study of Hölderlin, Kleist, and Nietzsche: The Struggle with the Daemon.

The Essential Interviews starring Bob Dylan was another great collection to sink my teeth into. My youngest son actually recommended this title to me.

I love to champion the work of Jason Schwartz and his latest book John the Posthumous was a dandy. Seems there are many other readers now who feel the same way about Schwartz as I do.

G.B. Edwards wrote a book titled The Book of Ebenezer Le Page which I struggled with initially and then by the time I was finished with it thought I had read something very special. A real treat and a work that should last as long as humans have heart.

Another amazing discovery was the Australian author Gerald Murnane who captivated me to no end. Of the books of his I read in 2013 I felt Landscape with Landscape and The Plains both worthy of a rating of five stars.

One of the hardest struggles I had in 2013 was with the title A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgård. Five stars and worth all the trouble in reading it.

Another title that knocked me out this year was Senselessness by Horatio Castellanos Moya.

A brilliant lyrical piece and actually written by a kid was titled The Cardboard House by Martín Adán.

Heinrich von Kleist wrote The Marquise of O— and Other Stories. I learned about this title by reading the Stefan Zweig study on Kleist listed above.

In the past I have read much of Sándor Márai and this year brought me another great work titled Esther's Inheritance.

Geoff Dyer has run hot and cold for me through the years but his title Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room was a feast to read and led me back to certain film studies I had grown weary of.

Because of my love for the Hungarian film director Bela Tarr and newfound Aussie writer Gerald Murnane I was notified of this fairly new periodical n+1 and I absolutely loved both issues that I ordered from them. The titles were Music & Literature: Issue 2 and Music & Literature Issue 3.

[Nadine Bookaholic · Rating 4 out of 5]

My Year in Books

[Christy]

TOP 5 READS of 2013

1- The Tied Man

2- Left Drowning

3- When It Rains

4- Breach

5- Arsen: A Broken Love Story

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

2013 fue el año en el cual comencé en ésta gran web de intercambio informativo cultural.
Aunque sólo anoté el último tercio de mis lecturas (18 en total), éstas resultaron notables en su conjunto.

En mi primer año predominó mi amada Sci fi, además de moverme por el sendero de la ‘melancolía’ mezclada con los ‘must-read’, leyendo y re leyendo una serie clásica de mi niñez y su moderna continuación. Además, opté por otras ramdom que me llamaron la atención y escogí de forma impulsiva entre las estanterías de las bibliotecas.

A continuación, el resumen y apreciación dentro de cada género:

En cuanto a Sci fi:
(Leí una gran obra de el grande (Heinlein), que me divirtió a la vez que me hizo carcajear con su aguda crítica)
-Amo de títeres
(Retomé mi añorada antología de la editorial Luís de Caralt, con la lectura de un tomo dentro de mis pendientes. Una lectura aceptable, con mezcla de sci fi y fantasía, dónde predomina el tema de los poderes excepcionales)
-El planeta loco
( y comencé una bilogía de una autora Española, que no estuvo nada mal; especialmente su concepto argumental)
-El sujeto número uno

En lo referente a clásicos:
(leí a un grande, Valle Inclán, con una de las lecturas que aún no había cogido de él y de imprescindible lectura; la cual me encantó respecto a su estilo de escritura, pero su concepto no es de los que me vayan)
-Divinas palabras

En el apartado infantil / cómic y / o manga:
(releí y avancé en la re edición de la pecosa más famosa de la historia y sus aventuras cotidianas)
-Esther y su mundo vol. 9,10, 11
( y me decidí a leer su continuación adulta, la cual me sorprendió muy gratamente..y eso que no apostaba mucho por ella)
-Las nuevas aventuras de Esther vol. 1,2,3

Y en los ramdom:
(Me atreví por fin con la secuela de una de mis obras favoritas de Figueroa, y me encantó..aunque si bien no tanto como su original. Pero es una digna segunda parte)
-Los ojos del Tuareg
(escogí una biografía sobre la infancia nómada y cruda de una famosa periodista, la cual me resultó notable e interesantísima)
-El castillo de cristal
(y destaco, por malo, malísimo, una lectura totalmente pretenciosa acerca de la conducta del ser humano, escrita por un famoso divulgador especializado)
-Darwin en el supermercado

En resumen, un año de contadas aunque notables lectura. Escogí más bien que mal (salvo una excepción ya mencionada..ejem..).
¿Mis favoritos?..bueno, los más destacados a nivel positivo de 2013 son:

-La trilogía de las nuevas aventuras de Esther
-Amo de títeres
-El castillo de cristal
-Los ojos del tuareg

[فـي قبضتــه السحــاب !!؟]

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لم أتعرف على هذه السلسلة الا حديثا لذا لم أدون أي مراجعة للسنوات الماضية فقط إكتفيت بقراءة تدوين الأعضاء

[Erin]

Favourites:
- If I Stay
- Perfect
- The Ghost and the Goth
- The Sea of Monsters
- Gone
- Wonder
- The House of Hades

Average rating: 3.9

Books read: 47
- 1 classics
- 45 fiction, 2 nonfiction
- 4 diary-like novels
- 14 graphic novel
- 12 series
- 1 book for a book report

Pages read: 11, 891
- average book length: 253

[Nyssa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Looking back, 2013 was a pretty good year. There was a variety of selections, and the quality was decent too. The average rating was a 3.95.

My favorite reads were Among Others and Clean Sweep.

[jade · Rating 5 out of 5]

★ 2013: MY YEAR IN BOOKS ★

2013 was a surprisingly good year for me, 'cause it introduced me to some of my favorite fantasy books of all time. yes, you heard that right -- looking back on this year felt like a trip of infinite fondness and nostalgia.

my top 5 of books i've read in 2013:



✎ mistborn. this book single-handedly dragged me back into the fantasy genre with the most original magic system i've ever seen (still! to this day!), fascinating characters, and a gripping story. fuck, i still get emotional thinking about it. (x)

✎ silence of the lambs. loving the movie, it was a feast of recognition to finally read the book it was based on. hannibal the cannibal, need i say more? def the best in the series. (x)

✎ the lies of locke lamora. if mistborn was the book that dragged me back into fantasy, this one was the book that planted my feet firmly into it. god, the heists. the humor. the banter. the swearing. fantasy venice. i have no words. (x)

✎ howl's moving castle. oh, love nearest to my heart. this book has everything: whimsical, unfiltered fairy-tale magic. i love sophie & howl so much, and together they're even better. (x)

✎ murder on the orient express. the best murder mystery of all time. anybody else can pack up and go home. stuck on a luxury train, in the snow, asshole gets murdered and everyone could've done it? hell to the yeah. this is so, so good. (x)

[Richard]

Books read in 2013

Africa and African Diaspora
Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love*
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (reviewed)
The Girl Who Swam to Atlantis (reviewed)
A Lesson Before Dying (reviewed)

Animals
The Bedside Book of Birds: An Avian Miscellany (reviewed)

British literature
To the Lighthouse (reviewed)
The Old Curiosity Shop

Buddhism
Fearless Puppy on American Road (reviewed)

Canadian literature
Dear Life (reviewed)
Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage (reviewed)
Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You: Thirteen Stories
Reflections: Dissecting the Modern Day Degenerate* (reviewed)
Run Charlie Run* (reviewed)

Children's literature / YA
Our Grandparents' Last War* (reviewed)
Math City* (reviewed)
My Grandparents' Big Bang* (reviewed)
The Haunted Mountain: A Story of Suspense (reviewed)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (reviewed)
The Marvelous Land of Oz (reviewed)
Ozma Of Oz
Loss De Plott, The Colour Red

Christianity
Following Yonder Star* (reviewed)
A Hunger in the Heart* (reviewed)
Goodnight, Brian* (reviewed)
Dear and Glorious Physician
Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols (reviewed)
Hail, Holy Queen: The Mother of God in the Word of God (reviewed)
My Way of Life
Bethlehem Besieged (reviewed)
The Kingdom of God: The Sermon on the Mount (reviewed)
Prayer: Archangels and Intercessory Beings (reviewed)

Comparative religion
Sacred Encounters from Rome to Jerusalem

Fantasy
A Storm of Swords
A Feast for Crows
The God of Lost Dreams* (reviewed)
The Roads to Baldairn Motte* (reviewed)
Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire (reviewed)

French literature
Du côté de chez Swann (reviewed)
À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs
Le Côté de Guermantes I
Le Côté de Guermantes II (reviewed)
Sodome et Gomorrhe
La Prisonnière (reviewed)
Albertine disparue
Le Temps retrouvé (reviewed)

History
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (reviewed)
Off-Topic: The Story of an Internet Revolt*
England Under the Tudors: A History of England (reviewed)

Horror
Bad Billy
Prodigal Son
City of Night
Dead and Alive
Lost Souls
The Dead Town
A Very Joe Vampire Holiday* (reviewed)

Humour
The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics (reviewed)
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Weirdos from Another Planet!
Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters (reviewed)
Bibliotoons: A Mischievous Meander Through the Stacks & Beyond (reviewed)

India
Remember me to Everybody: Letters from India, 1944-1949 (reviewed)

Ireland
Major Barbara (reviewed)

Judaica
Night
The Book Thief (reviewed)

Mystery / thriller
NO HERO - Myles Morgan Undercover #1* (reviewed)
Velocity (reviewed)
Killer Rumors*(reviewed)

Paranormal
Odd Thomas
Forever Odd
Brother Odd
Odd Hours
Afterlife Academy* (reviewed)

Philosophy
Brief History of the Soul

Poetry
Dickens in Camp (reviewed)
Houlihan's Wake and other fragments of Mexico

Science fiction
Freedom Club* (reviewed)
Eat Fish and Die* (reviewed)
Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade
The Infinite Battle (reviewed)

Short stories
The Oblivion Room: Stories of Violation* (reviewed)
Blue Ice* (reviewed)
Not from Concentrate* (reviewed)
With and Without Class* (reviewed)
Playing Havoc* (reviewed)
Burn* (reviewed)
The Vacuum Isn't Crazy about Nature, Either (reviewed)

*by GR friend

[┊ ♡ Cordelia ♡┊ · Rating 4 out of 5]

⋇⊶⊰ 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎-𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟑 ⊱⊷⋇

HELLO GOODREADS UNIVERSE!!! This is my first "end of year survey" here on goodreads, but I actually started reading (as in, I made myself do it and try to stick it out through books because I AM A TAD BIT DISTRACTABLE & INTERESTED IN DOING MANY MANY THINGS AT ONCE) in January 2010. I didn't track my reading before that, so I can't remember everything I read, ALTHOUGH THERE WAS A LOT OF SWEET VALLEY HIGH.

Goodreads only started making these reading surveys in 2013, so I'll cram in my first four years of purposeful reading here.

Going forward, I'll use these surveys to list a few favorites from the year. I WONDER WHAT I FORGOT I READ BEFORE 2010. 🙃

♡ 🅓🅔🅣🅐🅘🅛🅢 🅑🅨 🅣🅗🅔 🅨🅔🅐🅡 ♡

⨯ . ⁺ ✦ ⊹ ꙳ ⁺ ‧ ⨯. ⁺ ✦ ⊹ . * ꙳ ✦ ⊹

⋇⊶⊰ 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟎 ⊱⊷⋇

♡ THOUGHTS 2010: I started actively choosing to read in 2010, and I found so many cozy books this year. I started out expecting to read ROMAN and GREEK CLASSICS OF ERUDITION, but friends suggested I try cozy classics instead as maybe if I'd been a reader all my life I'd have already read them and have that Victorian garden context -- and they were RIGHT. THANK YOU! 2010 is the reason I kept reading. I probably would have gotten bored and wandered off fairly quickly if I'd made this the year of Plato, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Homer as originally planned. 🤣 It's not EASY for me to sit still and read, but now all these FUN STORIES and characters are IN MY HEAD! ♡

♡ books read 2010: listed here

✳ FAVORITE: Gone with the Wind
✳ SHORTEST: Of Mice and Men
✳ LONGEST: Gone with the Wind
✳ BEST CHARACTER: Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind
✳ BEST LOVE STORY: Scarlett and Rhett in Gone with the Wind, Jane and Rochester in Jane Eyre
✳ COZIEST: Little Women, Little House in the Big Woods, Jane Eyre
✳ HAPPIEST: A Christmas Carol
✳ LOVELIEST WRITING: Out of Africa, The Sound and the Fury
✳ MOST SURPRISING: The Sound and the Fury (WHAT INSANELY IMAGINATIVE WRITING!); Jane Eyre (IT WAS ACTUALLY A SUPER IMMERSIVE LOVE STORY!!)
✳ REREADS: Gone with the Wind (I had actually read this twice before 2010. It was basically the only actual novel I'd ever read on my own, meaning not for school.)
✳ READALOUDS: A Christmas Carol (I had never read a book out loud with my mom before 2010. I suggested this one because I thought it might be fun to read it aloud over Christmas like the Victorians would have, and then reading aloud became a tradition.)
✳ MOST LIKELY TO REREAD: Gone with the Wind
✳ CAN'T BELIEVE I WAITED UNTIL 2010: The Little House series

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♡ THOUGHTS 2011: This year I started exploring Louisa May Alcott and the Transcendentalists more. Not everything was a five-star read, but I had an amazing time -- and it was the first time I was really researching something literary out of my own interest in something I'd read (Little Women last year.)

♡ books read 2011: listed here

✳ FAVORITE: Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women (SO COZY)
✳ SHORTEST: Civil War Hospital Sketches by Louisa May Alcott
✳ LONGEST: The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
✳ BEST CHARACTER: Elinor Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility.
✳ BEST LOVE STORY: Definitely Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice.
✳ COZIEST: Sense and Sensibility 
✳ HAPPIEST: Anne of Green Gables
✳ LOVELIEST WRITING: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf and The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare
✳ MOST SURPRISING: The Mysteries of Udolpho (This is a book from the 1700s, and I was so so so so proud of myself for reading it. And EXCITED that it kept me hooked the whole time!)
✳ REREADS: Charlotte's Web (my favorite book as a child); Stuart Little
✳ READALOUDS: Mom and I read some of Dickens's Christmas stories out loud. They were VERY HARD TO READ -- specifically "The Haunted Man." But the memory is hilarious because WE CERTAINLY DID TRY. :-)
✳ MOST LIKELY TO REREAD: Charlotte's Web, Sense and Sensibility, Anne of Green Gables
✳ CAN'T BELIEVE I WAITED UNTIL 2011: Anne of Green Gables

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♡ THOUGHTS 2012: I remember this year as a bit of an arduous year in terms of reading. I knew I wanted to keep going, but I didn't really know what books to read. I kept trying ones based on others' experience or "you should read" lists, and while I'm glad I read them, it wasn't the most personally satisfying year. It was more of a transition year on figuring out my own tastes.

♡ books read 2012: listed here

✳ FAVORITE: DEFINITELY Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey. I read a ton of Shakespeare this year, but a biography of Margaret Mitchell was my favorite book. :-)
✳ SHORTEST: The Gift of the Magi
✳ LONGEST: Shakespeare: A Guide to the Complete Works
✳ BEST CHARACTER: Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which I read for the first time this year.
✳ BEST LOVE STORY: I DID NOT READ ANY LOVE STORIES!
✳ COZIEST: The Journals of Louisa May Alcott, My Heart is Boundless: Writings of Abigail May Alcott, Louisa's Mother, The Help (Again, a clear indication of my preferred genre, but I didn't see it at the time.)
✳ HAPPIEST: Tarzan of the Apes (I actually loved this one.)
✳ LOVELIEST WRITING: Walden
✳ MOST SURPRISING: The Taming of the Shrew (Mostly surprising because I felt like this was the first time I read Shakespeare on my own, assessed the play, and came up with an independent reading of it that made sense. I WAS MOST PROUD OF MYSELF.)
✳ REREADS: I didn't reread anything :(
✳ READALOUDS: The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
✳ MOST LIKELY TO REREAD: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey
✳ CAN'T BELIEVE I WAITED UNTIL 2012: A Tale of Two Cities

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♡ THOUGHTS 2013: This is the first year I started really trying to explore on my own, meaning not relying on "you must read" lists or recommendations, but following my own interest. This is the first year I felt like a real reader beginning to build her own literary thumb print.

♡ books read 2013: listed here

✳ FAVORITE: Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Ribound
✳ SHORTEST: The Velveteen Rabbit
✳ LONGEST: Gone with the Wind
✳ BEST CHARACTER: Hemingway in The Paris Wife.
✳ BEST LOVE STORY: Lily and Seldon in The House of Mirth.
✳ COZIEST: Mr. Emerson's Wife; Aesop's Illustrated Fables
✳ HAPPIEST: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
✳ LOVELIEST WRITING: The Great Gatsby, The House of Mirth, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
✳ MOST SURPRISING: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (I thought I hated fantasy and was even a bit snobby about it -- no idea why -- but I ADORED this one, so it got me wondering...); I was also surprised I not only enjoyed but LOVED the very old book The Pilgrim's Progress
✳ REREADS: Gone with the Wind, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility
✳ READALOUDS: The Velveteen Rabbit and “A Country Christmas” by Louisa May Alcott
✳ MOST LIKELY TO REREAD: Gone with the Wind, Little Women, Sense and Sensibility, Sarah, Plain and Tall
✳ CAN'T BELIEVE I WAITED UNTIL 2013: Sarah, Plain and Tall

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 𓆩♡𓆪
SO THAT'S HOW MY READING ADVENTURES BEGAN! I have no idea what I'll read next or where I'll go, but I'm sure it will be distinct to me! NO ONE ELSE WILL HAVE THE EXACT SAME BOOKS IN THEIR HEAD AT THE EXACT SAME TIME!!! *flings fireworks*

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[Misty · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Carola]

(Originally posted to my blog on December 31, 2013)

Happy New Year’s everyone, whether your time zone is ahead or not (it’s about 9 hours til midnight where I am).

I only just made my reading goal of 52 books this year, finishing book 53 just now, but admittedly I cheated a little here and there. Lots of short books and two short stories by Murakami that were published in the New Yorker. According to Goodreads I read 12.717 pages this year, versus 17.100 last year.

Favourites
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
- Vaslav by Arthur Japin
- The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox

All of these I love for very different reasons. The Murakami novels I loved because Murakami always leaves me feeling amazed, speechless and a little lost and these two were definitely my favourite works of his I read so far. I regret waiting so long to read them, but now I’m sad I will never again have the experience of reading them for the first time haha.
Seraphina was just highly addicting. I crave the next volume like there’s no tomorrow, but alas… 2015. Such torture. I’m a bit afraid my enthusiasm about this book might dwindle if I have to wait this long.
Vaslav is a historical novel about the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky (-the- Nijinsky) and Japin is an artist when it comes to writing historical novels. Just… read it.
Then, my absolute favourite book of this year is one of the last I read: The Vintner’s Luck. It’s absolutely gorgeous and perfect and I don’t think I will forget it for a long time. I ran into the book on Goodreads, and someone was offering a give-away for the book in a review. I feel so fortunate she sent me the book and after reading the book I both understand why she gave it away and feel like I should pass it on too. It’s that kind of book.

Events
Unfortunately I was far too busy to participate in more events this year, so the only event I participated in was January in Japan in, well, January. My posts for the event can be found here. I really enjoyed the event and will definitely participate again this January!

Biggest Surprise
Difficult to say. I didn’t really do much adventurous reading this year. All the books I ended up enjoying, I already expected I would enjoy. Even among the books I only gave 2 stars nothing really surprised me.

Most read author
Murakami, who else. I read three full novels, two short-stories-converted-into-books (The Bakery Attacks and Een stoomfluit midden in de nacht) and two short stories (A Shinagawa Monkey and the 2013 Samsa in Love). I read three books by John Green, which, frankly, surprises me. His books entertain me just enough but I’m never blown away by them (although The Fault in Our Stars is pretty good). I guess I just pick them up for a quick read?

Other bookish things
I am building a library! I moved and have an unused spare bedroom and I’m building a library and holy crap I’m excited! I also am quite proud of myself for not buying too many books in 2013. By which I mean, not as excessively as the previous years. Although I have plenty of space now so I doubt I’ll be able to hold back in 2014 haha.

In 2014...
...more books *grabby hands*, more reading, more activity on this blog! Also looking forward to Tony’s reading event January in Japan, and the Murakami Festival in Amsterdam on January 11th.

[Armando]

Este año fue cuando me uni al circulo de lectura de la universidad, donde disfrute de las discuciones y lecturas que hicimos durante el año. Mi 2013 en libros

--------- Mis Lecturas Favoritas del Año ---------
Ficción

Fantasia / Sci fi

Manga/Comics


--------- Datos Curiosos ---------

Más largo:
- The Shining | 659 paginas
Más corto:
- Chronicle of a Death Foretold | 120 paginas
- Animal Farm | 122 paginas
- The Canterville Ghost | 126 paginas

Más tardado en terminar:
- I, Robot | 92 dias
- The Shining | 64 dias
- Life of Pi | 60 dias
Más rapido en terminar:
- The Golden Compass | 6 dias
- Treasure Island | 12 dias

Más leido:
- Animal Farm | 2,847,271 veces
- Life of Pi | 1,373,334 veces
- The Golden Compass | 1,320,057 veces
Menos leido:
- Cage of Eden, Vol. 1 | 1,146 veces
- My Little Monster, Vol. 1 | 6,951 veces

Con mayor tiempo de espera:
- Animal Farm | por leer desde Mayo 2012 / 568 dias
Con menor tiempo de espera:
- The Subtle Knife | 8 dias
- The Shining | 9 dias

Misceláneo
1. Animales politicos
2. Seis historias entrelasadas atraves del tiempo.
3. Un viaje espiritual junto a un tigre y co.
4. Un mundo donde la iglesia gobierna y el alma tiene forma animal.
5. Estudiantes varados en una isla con creaturas peligrosas.
6. El pistolero empieza su travesia.
7. Aang y compañia se enfrentan a los vestigios de la guerra.
8. Historia detras de un asesinato.
9. Una familia es puesta a prueba en un hotel isolado.
10. Una aventura por el tesoro.
11. Un mundo en la oscuridad.
12. La travesia de un joven Sudafricano.
13. Relatos de robots y humanos.
14. Maestros de armas en contra de demonios.
15. Fantasma y humor.
16. Un cuchillo con poderes inimaginables.
17. Una guerra se abecima y ambos bandos se preparan.
18. Una joven dedicada y un inadaptado social.
19. Un joven ladron y una hada unen fuerzas.

Autores mas leídos
- Philip Pullman (3)
- Stephen King (2)
Destacados: Isaac Asimov, George Orwell, José Saramago, Gabriel García Márquez

Autores por país de origen (total: 16)
nota: unico año donde US no es el primer lugar.
- UK: 4 (Scotland: 1) | 25%
- US: 3 | 19%
- Japon: 3 | 19%
- Ireland: 2 | 12%
- Otros: Portugal, Canada, Colombia, Sudafrica: 4 | 25%

Autores por genero
- Masculino: 15 | 94%
- Femenino: 1 | 6%

Lecturas por tipo/media (total: 19)
- Libros: 15
- Manga: 3
- Comics: 1

Lecturas por fecha de publicación
- 1800s: 2
- 80s: 3
- 90s: 3
- 2000s: 7
- Otros: 40s, 50s, 70s, 2010s: 4 (1 c/u)

Lecturas por mes
- Mes con más lecturas: Ago - 4, May - 3
- Mes con menos lecturas: Ene, Feb, Mar, Jul, Sept, Dic - 1
- Racha de meses leyendo: 9 | Ene - Sept
- Racha de meses sin leer: 1
- Promedio de lecturas por mes: ~1.5

Generos más leídos
- Fantasia
- Clasicos
- Ciencia Ficción

Lecturas Por Leer (total: 131)
- Por leer: 83
- Leídas: 29
- Planeando leer pronto: 5
- Talvez o algún día: 14

Proporción de Lecturas Leídas y Por Leer
- Lecturas leídas: 19
- Lecturas por leer: 131
- Por cada lecturada leída, se agregaron ~7 nuevas lecturas por leer.

Reseñas (total: 9)
- Breves: 9

Recomendaciones leídas (total: 14)
- Adaptación (5)
- Amigos (2)
- Familia (1)
- Trailer (1)
- Otros: Circulo de lectura (5)

---------- Manga y Comics ----------

Manga - Volumenes
- Soul Eater (25)
- Cage of Eden (21)
- Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun (13)

Comics - Capitulos
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Promise (3)

--------- Series de Libros ---------

Este año leí His Dark Materials cuando mi hermana me comrpo la saga completa en un libro.

Tambien fue un año donde deje The Dark Tower y Artemis Fowl en pausa pero espero algun dia regresar para terminarlas.

Acabo de descubrir que existe una "secuela" a The Power of One, espero leerla para regresar al mundo de Peekay.

Series Empezadas/En Proceso
The Dark Tower (1/7.5) -- pausa indefinida --

Artemis Fowl (2/8) -- pausa indefinida --

The Power of One (1/2) -- desconocida --


Series Terminadas
His Dark Materials (3/3)


--------- Dentro de las Historias ---------
Personajes Iconicos
- Pi Patel y Richard Parker
- Will, Lyra, Asriel, Iorek y Serafina.
- Artemis Fowl y Holly
- Roland
- Adam Ewing, Robert Frobisher, Luisa Rey, Timothy Cavendish, sonmi-451 y Zachry
- Peekay y Doc
- Jack y Danny Torrance
- John Silver y Jim Hawkin
- Death the Kid, Patty y Liz, Stein, Soul y Maka, Black☆Star y Tsubaki, y Shinigami-sama

Lugares Inolvidables
- La Granja
- The Overlook Hotel
- Lyra's Oxford, The Magisterium, The Northern lights
- Futuristic Korea.
- Shizuku y Haru
- Death City, Shibusen, the Moon y Death Room

Cosas, seres e ideas fuera de este mundo
- The alethiometer, The subtle knife y daemons
- Demon weapons, Kishin y Death Scythe

[booklady]

I have been looking for these!!! Review to follow!

[Megan ♡ · Rating 5 out of 5]

2013 Favourites

[Unsolved ☕︎ Mystery · Rating 3 out of 5]

Books I read in 2013:




My favorites:

[J.S.]

My Top 10 for 2013 (in no order):

[Kamis]

Yearly Totals
Books Read: 50
Reviews Written: 8
ARC's: 0

January
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


February
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


March
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


April
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


May
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


June
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


July
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


August
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


September
Books Read: 0
Reviews Written: 0


October
Books Read: 11
Reviews Written: 3

Children of the Mind - 2
Sunshine - 4
World War Z - 3
Wicked - 4
The Glass Castle - 5
Son of a Witch - 3
Stolen Innocence - 4
A Stolen Life - 4
Fight Club - 4
A Lion Among Men - 2
Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account - 5


November
Books Read: 19
Reviews Written: 3

The Sight Seer - 4
The Graveyard Book - 5
Coraline - 4
Snuff - 1
Out of Oz - 3
The Prestige - 4
Frankenstein - 2
Slaughterhouse Five - 3
To Kill a Mockingbird - 4
The Hunger Games - 5
A Clockwork Orange - 3
Catching Fire - 4
The Book Thief - 5
A Long, Long Sleep - 4
Mockingjay - 3
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl - 4
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 5
The Restaurant at the End of the World - 4
American Psycho - 4


December
Books Read: 20
Reviews Written: 1

Life, the Universe and Everything - 3
An Autumn Dream - 5
From the Earth to the Moon - 4
The Fault in Our Stars - 5
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - 3
Young Zaphod Plays it Safe - 2
Soul Surfer - 3
Mostly Harmless - 2
Clockwork Angel - 4
Round the Moon - 2
Clockwork Prince - 4
Not a Drop to Drink - 3
Clockwork Princess - 5
Twelve Years a Slave - 4
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - 4
Stardust - 5
The Great Gatsby - 2
Animal Farm - 4
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - 4
Night - 5


Top 10 Books of the Year
1. Clockwork Princess
2. The Glass Castle
3. Fight Club
4. Night
5. The Graveyard Book
6. The Prestige
7. The Book Thief
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
9. Stardust
10. The Fault in Our Stars

[Suanne Laqueur]

TOP READS OF 2013 (In no particular order)
The Obituary Writer, by Ann Hood


The Magician's Assistant, by Ann Patchett


We, the Drowned, by Carsten Jensen


The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert


The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey


Heading Out to Wonderful, by Robert Goolrick


The House Girl, by Tara Conklin

[Andréa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Of 537 books in 2013, I gave 5-stars to 3 of them:

Kat, Incorrigible
by Stephanie Burgis


Take Your Mama to Work Today
by Amy Reichert


A Few Blocks
by Cybèle Young

[Nessa · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read 19,960 pages across 63 books. Longest book was The Mortal Instruments 1-4 Compilation.

TMI series was nice for a hot second and by the end of the 2nd book I was over the series tbh.

I didn't read much this year. It was an eclectic genre year too.

I read some comics like Skydoll, Myth.
Some YA like Graceling, Demon's Lexicon, etc.
Read quite a few Darren Shan and Rick Riordan's novels.
Read a few classics like The Godfather.

Some children books like Wizards of Earthsea which took me a lot to enter the book at start, and then I fell completely in love by the end.

Ender's Game was another highlight of this year that I completely fell in love with.

Read quite a few non-fiction novels about writing.

All in all, not a bad year.

Giving this year 5 stars over the very big surprised with Earthsea and Ender's game. Goes to show quality over quantity exists 👍

[c · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating Scale

5 Stars ⁕ Perfect
4 Stars ⁕ Loved It
3 Stars ⁕ Liked It
2 Stars ⁕ Could've Been Better
1 Stars ⁕ Hated It

Average Rating for

4 Stars

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
1/1/13 - 1/10/13 || ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
2/8/13 - 6/26/13 || No Rating

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
6/4/13 - 9/29/13 || No Rating

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
11/1/13 - 11/10/13 || No Rating

Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
11/1/13 - 11/28/13 || ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
11/3/13 - 11/29/13 || No Rating

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen
12/1/13 - 12/1/13 || No Rating

[Yev]

Everything else that needs a placeholder.

Future of Copyright Anthology, sponsored by The Modern Poland Foundation
ENJOYABLE
The Brick in Room 207 - Jesse Betteridge

OK
Future of Copyright - Mike Linksvayer
History of Copyright 2012–Present - Reuben Binns

MEH
Remote Kill - Alf Melin
Blurred. A utopian story - Carlos Solis
In Session - Eddie
Heritage of ACTA - Jarosław Żyła
Future of Copyright - Roland Spitzlinger

BLAH
Morphology of a copyright tale - Aymeric Mansoux
Give - Togi