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... )

Wowza. Three months since the last update?!

Ah well. At least I've updated the finished books table, pitiful as it is. I didn't concentrate well in April and May. I blame the Xbox 360.

I re-read Cora Sandel's Alberte trilogy for the umpteenth time, and it's still good. Also, allow me to point out that everybody who enjoys historical fiction and/or SF ( Read more... )

I'm trying to spend Christmas present money on Amazon, and note that there's lots and lots of Roald Dahl on sale. Funny thing is, I've never liked reading Dahl in English. It has to be in Norwegian. Possibly because I read so much Dahl as a child.

I was sorely tempted to buy a book by someone called Anita Diamant, but managed to keep it out of the ( Read more... )