I'm on a roll.

Finished Thore Hansen's Skogland, which has been gathering dust, and Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. Also started and finished Steven Brust's Taltos today.

Love Brust, Hansen was adorable and as for Zamyatin - I'm wary of translations from Russian. There's something about Russian syntax that doesn't translate very well, the sentences have a ( Read more... )

Finished Chekhov (good) and Kay (brilliant). I've also read The Deathly Hallows, of course, but enough people have blathered on about that.

Current Book in the Bag is Zamyatin's We, which I've started but was interrupted. Current Book at Home is Lois McMaster Bujold's Shards of Honor, since I foolishly discussed SF and fantasy with my boss (now, ( Read more... )

Well, I've made it to number 13 on the Xbox 360 Catan single player leaderboard...

Current Book in the Bag is Anton Chekhov, a special edition of letters and his book about his trip to Sakhalin. Lovely lovely Chekhov. I adore his works, as long as I don't have to watch pretentious fuckwits perform them on stage (hello, National Theatre's The Seagull ( Read more... )

Ha HA! Finished those damn McIntosh books. She eased up on the whilsts in book two and three, I'll grant her that, and the plot was gruesomely captivating almost all the way. Sadly, she resorted to lame plot short cuts near the end of book three. I actually got the impression that she wanted to get it over and done with ( Read more... )

A good book puts me in such a good mood. Since Julian Barnes' Flaubert's Parrot is a wonderful book, I'm on top of the world ( Read more... )

Ho hum.

I decided to indulge in a little fantasy, in between Victorians and parrots, and bought Fiona McIntosh's Myrren's Gift based entirely on it's appealing cover. Its idea is good, but it's so badly executed it's painful ( Read more... )

Fevre Dream was a bit too fun to keep in the bag, it turns out. In fact, I finished it last night ( Read more... )

George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream is now The Book In The Bag, and despite nausea I managed to read quite a bit on the tram this morning. I was very miffed when I had to get off the tram and actually work. I'm already in love with Joshua York.


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Definitely on a roll here.

Borrowed, started and finished Cornwell's The Body Farm yesterday, and was very much reminded of the fact that I don't like her books all that much. This has to do with detesting her main character Kay Scarpetta, with not being particularly happy with Cornwell's style and with generally preferring other crime authors, such ( Read more... )

Finished Eastern Tide. Since I bought it Saturday afternoon and was done Sunday night, I'm a bit impressed with myself. I'm a fast reader, but I'm usually not that fast.

Juliet E. McKenna isn't half bad as fantasy authors go. There's a lot of mistrust and downright hatred of magic in her books, so she manages to weave in some universal questions ( Read more... )