Wow, I am spectacularly bad at this. Once again I had a lot of thoughts at the time but have undoubtedly forgotten everything I wanted to say.

55. Ancillary Justice by Ann LeckieOr That Book What Won All the Awards This Year ( Read more... )

34. The Song of the Quarkbeast by Jasper FfordeThe second in his Last Dragonslayer series for young adults. I read the third one first (got charmed by him at an event & bought the book he was pimping), then the first one, so this one nicely fills in the middle ( Read more... )

I am so far behind with this.

45. The Golden Age: The Spanish Empire of Charles V by Hugh Thomas

The second part of Thomas' history of the Spanish empire. Where Rivers of Gold was dense but fascinating, this was just dense. This was a surprise - as I mentioned in my review of Rivers of Gold, I've read some of his earlier books and they've ( Read more... )

41. Spirit Walker by Michelle Paver

The sequel to Wolf Brother. At first I thought it was less good than the first book, but read the second half in one sitting. Picked up volume 3 from the library today ( Read more... )

39. Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

I started this some years ago, wasn't that grabbed by it and was too busy to persist. Much later the penny dropped and I realised this was the same person who wrote the wonderful Arctic horror story Dark Matter, so I tried again ( Read more... )

28. The Eye of Zoltar by Jasper FfordeUp till now I had not read any of Fforde's works. However, he was also speaking at the Ben Aaronovitch and Paul Cornell event in May, and he was witty and funny and lovely, so not surprisingly this one ended up coming home with me ( Read more... )

66. Elidor by Alan GarnerFour siblings chase a football into a church about to be demolished in post-war Manchester and come out in another world. It's a dying world, and the man that they meet entrusts them with the Treasures of this world for safekeeping, and sends them on their way ( Read more... )

33. Among Others by Jo Walton

Recommended by nwhyte on one of those rare occasions when I was at a real computer so could move over to another tab and reserve it at the library.

This is a completely wonderful book.  It's about a girl from the Welsh Valleys who, due to family difficulties, has to go live with her father, except he's posh(ish) English so ( Read more... )