The 2009 Ho Media Awards Website of the Year - xkcd Because romance, sarcasm, math, and language have always made the best bedfellows. Book of the Year - Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Angel's Game Nobody writes a novel with the right mix of noir, mystery, fantasy, and macabre deaths like Zafon. TAG is no exception. This book contains the single worst death I have ever had the privilege (?) of reading. It made me laugh and it broke my heart; made me hope and despair; made me pray and curse; and most powerfully, it stuck with me for every minute that I spent between those times when I could sit down with it again. In a preemptive honorable mention, I'm pretty sure that Brandon Sanderson is going to finish out the Wheel of Time saga very admirably, but I haven't gotten to The Gathering Storm yet. My reread is only halfway through Lord of Chaos right now. I started it back in September! Sanderson is worth another mention for his own original works as well. The Mistborn ...