Books in 2011 : October
Lauren Groff Les monstres de Templeton (The Monsters of Templeton)
Bought: March 2010.
Stephen King Dead Zone (The Dead Zone)
Bought: July 2006. (Re-read)
Isaac Asimov Un défilé de robots (The Rest of the Robots) & Le robot qui rêvait (Robot Dreams)
Bought: February 2011. (Re-read)
Barbara Hambly Dead and Buried, The Shirt on his Back & the short story A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven
Bought (Kindle): July 2011 - October 2011.
Maureen Johnson Thirteen Little Blue Envelopes & The Last Little Blue Envelope
Bought (Kindle): August 2011.
Eoin Colfer The Supernaturalist & Plugged
Bought (Kindle): August 2011.
David Wong John Dies at the End
I tried, but it just wasn't my cup of tea--and it became obvious very early on, so at least I didn't waste much time on it.
Bought (Kindle): September 2011. Read
Richard Bachman Marche ou crève (The Long Walk)
I still remember vividly the first time I read that one--during my final year in high school--and since then, every time I re-read it, it just grabs me and I can't put the book down, even though I know how it ends.
Bought: October 2001. (Re-read)
Elizabeth Peters The Curse of the Pharaohs
Bought: February 2011. (Re-read)
Edited by Ellen Datlow Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
Bought (Kindle): September 2011.
Edited by P.N. Elrod Dark and Stormy Knights
I bought these two for the Dresden Files short stories, but I ended up liking some of the other stories as well--which came as a surprise, considering how little I'd enjoyed the previous anthologies of the kind I'd bought.
Bought (Kindle): September 2011.
George R.R. Martin A Storm of Swords
Bought: April 2011.
Jean-François Parot L'énigme des Blancs-Manteaux
Tried it because a friend of mine adores these books. Hated it, sadly--it took me a little while to figure out why (considering the setting, it should have been just my kind of thing), but after three chapters, it dawned on my: the author tells, he doesn't show. The books is full of sentence like, "He drew his own conclusions after this incident," without telling you what the damn conclusions are, so in the end, you can't get involved into the story. You just always feel like you're on the outside, watching characters go through their lives without being involved in their thought-processes or their emotions.
Bought (Kindle): October 2011. Read
Sabine C. Bauer Stargate SG1 : Transitions
Some of the plot points required some serious suspension of disbelief, the deus-ex-machina solution to fixing the health crisis was annoying, but all in all, it's far from being the worst tie-in I've ever read.
Bought (Kindle): October 2011.
Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light
Just because.
Bought: June 2006. (Re-read)
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