It's been a long time since I actually posted a developmental update. And this isn't one, or at least not an exhaustive one ( Read more... )

I apparently didn't even do one of these lists for 2011. I knew I was being bad about it, but THAT bad? I had no clue. The 'year-end' tag at the bottom will bring you to my other whole-year roundup posts.

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1. Jan 1: Night Work, by Laurie R. King [Kate Martinelli series]
   
2. One Salt Sea, by Seanan McGuire [October Daye #5]
   
3. Jan 5: The War of the ( Read more... )

Some of these books were suggested as good reads by panelists; others by my fellow conventiongoers; and two I got off the SF Outreach Project's free-books shelf and have already read (yum!), so I can recommend them personally. Mostly they are books; I should note a few are visual media of one sort or another. If any of these make you think of ( Read more... )

Yes, yes. Don't judge me. I've been in a trough lately, and when it came time to gather up book titles to put on hold at the library, I thought, "Y'know? I really feel like some Pern. Let's see how dire they are." Admittedly, the urge came up because I'd been wallowing in Lackey's more recent Valdemar and enjoying it (in the same way you can eat ( Read more... )

I was commenting online in a different forum that since early days we've read big honking popsci and other adult nonfiction books to Beka, and she has enjoyed them. Mostly we read them because they keep us interested, and when we're not bored out of our minds we're better parents. Let's face it, there are only so many times you can read Dr. Seuss' ( Read more... )

1. Jan 19: Fruitless Fall, by .
   Parallels Silent Spring; it's about colony collapse disorder in bees, and other things relating to BEES ARE ECONOMICALLY KEY AND ALSO AWESOME.
   
2. Jan 20: Corambis, by Sarah Monette [Felix and Mildmay, #4]
   
3. Feb 6: Foreigner, by C.J. Cherryh Foreigner #1 [R]
   
4. Mar 2: Shaman's Crossing, by Robin Hobb [Soldier Son #1]
   
5. Mar 8: ( Read more... )

And OMG.

People wanting to remain spoiler-free should NOT read the comments to this post.

People who have finished it and need somewhere to decompress afterwards, please please feel free to do so in these comments, or post a link here to you doing it elsewhere (or other links of use to people with such an interest).

( at least 43 by 8/4 )

Due to decluttering, I have a wodge of books at my disposal that I know I want to get rid of. This is not ALL the books I want to get rid of; only the ones we discovered were in that category tonight.

However, if there's some listed below that (a) you want and (b) you have suggestions on how I can get them to you without massive inconvenience [I am ( Read more... )

[R] means a re-read; [L] means I got it from the library. There's a stretch in the middle of the year where I lost track of which day I finished reading what on, and the precise order; books are listed for completeness nonetheless.

If you click on ' year-end below you'll get more of my books-read posts ... or here's a list:

• 133 in 2007
  
• 145 in 2006 ( ( Read more... )