• The Sundered (03) Lady of Mercy by Michelle Sagara West. Early writing, reading it for completeness.
• The Masqueraders by Georgette Heyer. Rereading because I love Prudence.
• Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett. Rereading because I love all the jokes about socks.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 Issue 19 by Drew Goddard. Winds up the Fray storyline ( Read more... )

• Spike and Co. by Graham McCann. This is a biography of Associated London Scripts, a cosy professional nest of British humour in the 1950's but my heart goes to Spike Milligan (again) for his awful and amazing life. Utterly worthwhile.
• So hard to say by Alex Sanchez. Young maybe-gay boy coming of age story, gentle and well developed.
• The Wave Runners ( Read more... )

Going Postal by Terry Pratchett was fun and witty, read in flying to Brisbane which quite tired so not in the best state to appreciate it properly. Left my copy with Pop but will eventually reacquire and read again.

Prey by Michael Crichton was very readable. It featured a programmer interested in intelligent systems having to battle a nano-swarm ( Read more... )

Not one of the excellent ones.

Darwin's Children by Greg Bear. Humankind spontaneously does some evolving and the Americans cope as best they can. The virus Sheva scares the pants out of everyone with its lethal potential, but are its children truly dangerous? It's personal and sweeping and enjoyable, wanted to bring it home to lend to people but my father who kept vanishing off ( Read more... )

Sam Vimes sighed when he heard the scream, but he finished shaving before he did anything about it ( Read more... )