Year-End Favorites
A few new categories this year, compared to past times I've done this exercise. My goal was to choose five movies and five books, but I failed, so I cheated and split Movies into New and Old, and books into Novels and Novellas (the latter slightly loosely construed--but all the entries are much shorter than the novels). In the end I had a tough time trimming the Novels list down to five, so I chose to leave them all. They're very different books and I think all are well worth reading. Choosing a single favorite across all categories is an impossible task, but I'll do it anyway-- The Past is Red by Cat Valente, which I've been raving about since I read it as part of my Hugo read at the beginning of the summer. It's witty, bittersweet, imaginative, and has a clear voice. Plenty of books from the year have stuck with me, but I think this one might outlast them all. Movies, New The Tragedy of Macbeth The Hand of God Everything, Everywhere, All at Once El Robo del Siglo...