Discourse in a Digital Age discussion

The end of the year on the internet is generally filled with "best of" lists and catalogs of favorite things. What were your favorite books we read this year? What were your favorite books you read this year? Feel free to go outside of our book clubs. Of course, if it seems relevant to this club, I might put it on a list to consider...

My favorites in the book club were probably Handmaid's Tale, Nimona, and The Martian. I really, really enjoyed the bizarre discussion for I'm Trying to Reach You, though.

Outside of the book club, I finished Gaiman's complete Sandman saga, which was pretty rewarding. I'm having difficulty remembering what else I read, and my borrowing history is largely books I checked out trying to get the self-check to work. Maybe if I kept up on my Goodreads, I could do better with this.

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams is good fun. Perhaps I should have us do Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Yes, let's do a Douglas Adams, so 2017 can be the year I cast off the shame of being the only human being who's never read a single thing of his!
My favorite book(s) of '16 from the group, in order: the "Ancillary Justice" trilogy (still wish it hadn't ended), "Snowcrash", "Station Eleven", "The Martian" and "Word Exchange".
Outside reading absolute fav this year: "Seveneves" by Neal Stephenson. We must all pray that he is working on a sequel.
Just finished Annie Barrows' "The Truth According to Us" -- doesn't equal her "Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society" (which is in my all-time favorite books pantheon), but is an entertaining, serio-comic look at a Depression-era Southern family's tragedies & triumphs thru the eyes of a precocious 12yr old and the society girl working for the Federal Writers Project who boards with them one summer. (Wait, is that my longest run-on sentence ever??)

I've never read Douglas Adams...I don't think. So there ya go.

My favorites from this book club were the Imperial Radch (Ancillary) trilogy, Nimona, and Fun Home.

From other corners of my reading world...Challenger Deep, Citizen: An American Lyric, Bad Feminist, Dead Wake, The Graveyard Book, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, and Yes, Please.

I'm organizing my Book Riot 2017 Read Harder Challenge right now--join me if you like!

Oh, yes, yes -- From Travis' group, "

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking was wonderful -- I recommended it to everyone I know. Seems very relevant now, in light of Putin's ambitions.