1. Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher
reread.
2. Princeps' Fury by Jim Butcher
reread.
3. First Lord's Fury by Jim Butcher
The Codex alera series is finally brought to a satisfying conclusion. Especially after re-reading all of the books in one shot, I found it really interesating a) how many world details are still unexplained, and b) how much ( Read more... )

I've gone off-goal for a bit, serious book-wise.

34. The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes
A Victorian stage magician and his giant mute assistant. They fight crime! Good Victorian silliness.
35. Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher
re-read
36. Academ's Fury by Jim Butcher
re-read
37. Cursor's Fury by Jim Butcher
re-read
And that's it for 2009. ( Read more... )

At Thanksgiving, I picked up three books without reading the back blurb or looking at the cover art. I picked them up because all three authors were folks who seem to be highly regarded by folks I like, and authors I had never read a novel by. Scalzi's Old Man's War was the first of the three.

29. Escapement by Jay Lake
I wanted to like this ( Read more... )

15. My Own Kind of Freedom by Steven Brust (ebook)
Brust wrote a Firefly novel with someone I know written into it. Sadly, it was not amazing - once the novelty wore off, it just didn't work for me.
16. Captain's Fury by Jim Butcher
Book four in the series. I know I read this some time in the past year, but couldn't find it in the booklog. The ( Read more... )

Booklog update (where booklog refers to books I've read, as opposed to book*list* which is books I *want* to read. Arbitrary distinction, I know).

1.The Book of Lies by Disinformation Press (Richard Metzger, ed.)
There's going to be an essay-by-essay review of this later. I'm glad to be finished with this one, while it wasn't as bad as ( Read more... )

Cowl by Neal Asher
A random grab from the Lizard Library Pile. I was surprisingly
pleased with it. It's an ambitious post-cyberpunk time travel novel
with some extremely cool antagonists. The wrap-up at the end has, I
think, the right amount of detail - it leaves a lot unsaid, while
still ending the story satsifyingly.

Furies of Calderon by ( Read more... )

Recent Books

• The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. One of the most upsetting books I've read in a while. Written in the early 70s, a lot of the content seems pretty familiar. Brunner paints a picture of the world in environmental crisis, with the US at the forefront of the destruction, thanks to its economic position and a government that's ( Read more... )