13 & 14
14. Lonely Werewolf Girl, Martin Millar
13. Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan*
12. The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
11. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan*
10. Lyon: Lords of Satyr #3, Elizabeth Amber
9. Rant, Chuck Palahniuk
8. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan*
7. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan*
6. Almost Adam, Petru Popescu
5. The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol, Eric Burns
4. A Spell for Chameleon, Piers Anthony
3. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
2. The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan*
1. Plato and a Platypus Walked into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy through Jokes, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Path of Daggers, I'm glad is done. It was slow and draggy. The only parts I really enjoyed were Egwene showing the Hall who's really boss in the rebel camp. Rand is all "NON EMOTE" and boring, Mat was missing entirely, and Perrin was still figuring out how to deal with his wife. And now that I've started Winter's Heart, I've also started the excruciating rescue of Faile.
Lonely Werewolf Girl was one I'd never heard of, by an author I'd never heard of. I kind of sort of broke the bet with Sid about not buying books this year by getting it (I used the last of the gift card I got for Christmas plus the money I allowed myself before plus I asked Nathan to pay for it), but it was worth it.
As the title implies, the book centers on a lonely, depressed, teenage werewolf girl named Kalix. Kalix, at the beginning of the book, does nothing but drink laudanum, not eat, run from bad guys, and write (poorly) in her journal.
The backstory is that Kalix, because of some vague (vague even later in the book) transgression, has contributed to the death of the Thane, the leader of the MacRinnalch werewolves in Scotland. The Great Council votes between the former Thane's two sons and neither is elected, and so begins the story.
The writing style was a bit offputting at first, but once I got used to reading Millar's style, it felt like it fit. I do have a complaint about the publisher: their copyeditors suck. I found scores of mistakes like using of not off, repetitions of words, things that are really annoying when reading a book. It wasn't so bad to make me stop reading (obviously), but I noted it and am considering sending Soft Skull Press my resume along with a corrected version of Lonely Werewolf Girl. Then my head shrinks to normal proportions.
Now reading Winter's Heart and The Love-Artist by Jane Alison. The latter is a fictional account of Ovid and how he came to be exiled from Rome. So far, it's lovely.
13. Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan*
12. The Zombie Survival Guide, Max Brooks
11. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan*
10. Lyon: Lords of Satyr #3, Elizabeth Amber
9. Rant, Chuck Palahniuk
8. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan*
7. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan*
6. Almost Adam, Petru Popescu
5. The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol, Eric Burns
4. A Spell for Chameleon, Piers Anthony
3. World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, Max Brooks
2. The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan*
1. Plato and a Platypus Walked into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy through Jokes, Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
Path of Daggers, I'm glad is done. It was slow and draggy. The only parts I really enjoyed were Egwene showing the Hall who's really boss in the rebel camp. Rand is all "NON EMOTE" and boring, Mat was missing entirely, and Perrin was still figuring out how to deal with his wife. And now that I've started Winter's Heart, I've also started the excruciating rescue of Faile.
Lonely Werewolf Girl was one I'd never heard of, by an author I'd never heard of. I kind of sort of broke the bet with Sid about not buying books this year by getting it (I used the last of the gift card I got for Christmas plus the money I allowed myself before plus I asked Nathan to pay for it), but it was worth it.
As the title implies, the book centers on a lonely, depressed, teenage werewolf girl named Kalix. Kalix, at the beginning of the book, does nothing but drink laudanum, not eat, run from bad guys, and write (poorly) in her journal.
The backstory is that Kalix, because of some vague (vague even later in the book) transgression, has contributed to the death of the Thane, the leader of the MacRinnalch werewolves in Scotland. The Great Council votes between the former Thane's two sons and neither is elected, and so begins the story.
The writing style was a bit offputting at first, but once I got used to reading Millar's style, it felt like it fit. I do have a complaint about the publisher: their copyeditors suck. I found scores of mistakes like using of not off, repetitions of words, things that are really annoying when reading a book. It wasn't so bad to make me stop reading (obviously), but I noted it and am considering sending Soft Skull Press my resume along with a corrected version of Lonely Werewolf Girl. Then my head shrinks to normal proportions.
Now reading Winter's Heart and The Love-Artist by Jane Alison. The latter is a fictional account of Ovid and how he came to be exiled from Rome. So far, it's lovely.