Relatively Recent Reading
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JANUARY
FEBRUARY
JANUARY
- Fables: Super Team by Bill Willingham, with art by Mark Buckingham, et al. (graphic novel)
- Bordertown edited by Terri Windling & Mark Alan Arnold (245 pp.)
stories: Danceland (Emma Bull & Will Shetterly) / Demon (Midori Snyder) / Exile (Bellamy Bach, i.e., Terri Windling) / Mockery (Ellen Kushner & Bellamy Bach, i.e., Terri Windling)
- White Cat by Holly Black (310 pp.)
first line: "I wake up barefoot, standing on cold slate tiles."
- Korgi, Book 3: A Hollow Beginning by Christian Slade (graphic novel/picture book)
- Must Love Hellhounds (361 pp.)
stories: The Britlingens Go to Hell (Charlaine Harris) / Angels' Judgment (Nalini Singh) / Magic Mourns (Ilona Andrews) / Blind Spot (Meljean Brook)
- Rampant by Diana Peterfreund (402 pp.)
first line: "'"I will never really leave," said the unicorn. Diamond sparkles floated from the tip of its glittering silver horn. "I will always live in your heart."' / I swallowed the bile rising in my throat and forced myself to continue reading."
- To Fetch a Thief: A Chet and Bernie Mystery by Spencer Quinn (307 pp.)
first line: "'I smell trouble,' Bernie said."
FEBRUARY
- Freewheel: Volume 1 by Liz Baillie (graphic novel)
- Freewheel: Volume 2 by Liz Baillie (graphic novel)
- The Unwritten, Vol. 5: On to Genesis by Mike Carey, with art by Peter Gross, et al. (graphic novel)
- Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss (260 pp.)
first line (of the prologue): "Ever after, on muggy, magnolia-scented days, Miranda would stop whatever she was doing and stand silent for a minute or two."
first line (of the first chapter): "Miranda's parents were singing Sinatra's old song 'New York, New York' in the corniest way, trying to harmonize."
- Pale Phoenix by Kathryn Reiss (326 pp.)
first line: "On the morning it all began, Miranda Browne had no idea this day would be different from others."
- Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye (368 pp.)
first line: "It was at least forty degrees above warm."
- Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake (316 pp.)
first line: "The grease-slicked hair is a dead giveaway--no pun intended."