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I suspect that I'm going to have a much better idea of my normal book-choosing algorithms by the time I'm done with the Tiptree jury. Because what I have right now is a middle-sized "to be read" pile that consists entirely of new books selected by other people. And the basis for selection isn't that they know me and think I'll like this: it's that they think the book is sf or fantasy (I've already hit one that I'm fairly sure isn't, though one of my fellow jurors disagreed) and does interesting things with/about gender. Obviously, if those criteria didn't appeal to me, I wouldn't be a Tiptree juror, but it's a subset of my usual reading, not least because this is a genre award.
It's not that they aren't good--they vary widely, of course, but I'm enjoying myself. It's that I have an unusually large proportion of books by authors I haven't read before; no rereading; and nothing that isn't very recent. Obviously, I'm still dipping into other things, but when I'm thinking "what do I want to read?" rather than "I'd like to reread X", I'm looking at this pile, not at the rest of our bookshelves.
rysmiel's journal, and I decided I wanted it here for my own reference. What's here is expanded from that comment.)I suspect that I'm going to have a much better idea of my normal book-choosing algorithms by the time I'm done with the Tiptree jury. Because what I have right now is a middle-sized "to be read" pile that consists entirely of new books selected by other people. And the basis for selection isn't that they know me and think I'll like this: it's that they think the book is sf or fantasy (I've already hit one that I'm fairly sure isn't, though one of my fellow jurors disagreed) and does interesting things with/about gender. Obviously, if those criteria didn't appeal to me, I wouldn't be a Tiptree juror, but it's a subset of my usual reading, not least because this is a genre award.
It's not that they aren't good--they vary widely, of course, but I'm enjoying myself. It's that I have an unusually large proportion of books by authors I haven't read before; no rereading; and nothing that isn't very recent. Obviously, I'm still dipping into other things, but when I'm thinking "what do I want to read?" rather than "I'd like to reread X", I'm looking at this pile, not at the rest of our bookshelves.
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