At long last, finals are over. I have no idea how I did on my College Algebra final, and luckily I don't have to care, because unless I utterly failed it, I should still get a B in the class. And if I did utterly fail it -- I'll still get a C.

So. It's time once again for my embarrassingly short list-of-books-I-read-this year. I'm still a hell of a long way from "read your height in books," but I did better than last year, anyway. (And as usual, I'm not including stories and plays from collections -- just whole novels.)

Here, then, are the books, complete with commentary of great prolixity and spoileriness.

( Toilers of the Sea )
( er, here, have some extended rambling about Hugo and Melville )
( Brief Lives )
( Frankenstein )
( Coraline )
( Nineteen Eighty-Four )
( reread: The Man in the High Castle )
( V for Vendetta )
( Atlas Shrugged )
( Tao Te Ching )
( The Stranger )
( Big Fish )
( Lots of Batman stuff... )
( Watchmen )
( The Golden Compass )
( The Valley of Fear )
( The General in His Labyrinth )
( Dracula )
( This Side of Paradise )
( War of the Worlds )

Aaaand there you have it. I may not read much, but I sure do make long posts about it...