In between all this, I've been reading Paolo Bacigalupi's The Windup Girl, a book I checked out more for the author then because the in-flap or back captured me (neither did that much) and I have been enjoying it more then I thought I would. I read it because it sounded interesting and because I have been reading a good deal about it - not as much as previous sudden interests, but enough. It's something of a history of them, even providing examples for many notable languages the author highlights. I finished just Saturday In the Land of Invented Languages, by Akira Okrent, about exactly as the name suggests - invented languages. As a result my TBR list has grown by a dozen books. I just finished reading the other day Ten Years in the Tub, a collection of Nick Hornby's columns of "What I've Been Reading," written for The Believer, a magazine about literature and the arts.
I have been devouring books the way characters in books always talk about, and I can't help but wonder why I didn't start sooner. Biographies and books of essays, fantasy and literary. My intake is, I think, far more balanced. Instead, I find that my reading habits have simply evolved and that traditional fantasies still have their place, if not a place as large as when I was reading Long Price Quartet, Dagger and the Coin, Stormlight Archive (this before book reviews took over from soundtrack reviews), First Law, and the first books of several series that I plan to continue - really! To prevent burn-out, I declared a "sabbatical" from fantasy in favor of some nonfiction and some less traditional fantasies. I was, at the time, devouring fantasy novels effectively exclusively. I wonder how much I would've enjoyed this had my reading habits not evolved from how they were closer to the beginning of the year, or even the middle of the year. Published in 2006, by Bantam Spectra in the U.S.
I've heard many, many great things about this, Scott Lynch's debut novel, and the first of his Gentlemen Bastards sequence.
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