October Book List
Oct 1st-3rd: Eric Flint (ed) - Grantville Gazette III, Ring of Fire II, Grantville Gazette IV & V: Like I said for last month, I felt like rereading the anthologies for the Ring of Fire series again...
Oct 4th: Robert Parker - Stranger in Paradise: Chief Stone and his officers have a problem. Native American robber and probable-killer Crow has returned to town. And he's brought a family dispute involving a Florida mobster and a local youth gang with him...
Oct 5th: Steve Hamilton - North of Nowhere: Ex-cop and former P.I. Alex McKnight would prefer to be a hermit in his cabin. But his friends keep dragging him out to socialize. In this case to sit in on a poker game. One that turns into a robbery...
Oct 6th: Steven Gould - Helm: I've said this before, but it bears repeating. This is probably my favorite Lost Human Colony story...
Oct 7th - Flint/Virginia DeMarce - 1635: The Dreeson Incident: I mostly like DeMarce's Ring of Fire work. Mostly. I just wish she'd lay off infodumping the family history of her characters...
Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals: Like Making Money the latest Discworld really only has one noticeable flaw. Neither book has anything like a real villain. Though otherwise great book...
Oct 8th: Hamilton - Blood is the Sky: Alex and his friend Vinnie end up having to go into Canada to look for Vinnie's brother and a group of missing hunters...
Oct 9th: Hamilton - Ice Run: A romantic night out for McKnight and his new girlfriend, Ontario peace officer Natalie Reynaud turns odd when an old man leaves them a hat full of snow and a threatening note. And after the old man is found froze to death things begin to get ugly as the story of an old murder involving Natalie's father comes to light...
Oct 10th: Janet Evanovich - Finger Lickin' 15: Bounty Hunter Stephanie Plum, a murdered celebrity chef and a series of break-ins at properties under the protection of Ranger's business. Plus the regular oddball mix of Trenton characters...
Hamilton - Stolen Season: Alex and his friends rescue a group of drunken boaters during a fogged over night. The ungrateful group end up having a connection to a gun-runner case in Canada that an undercover Officer Reynaud is working...
Oct 13th: Elmore Leonard - Maximum Bob: Leonard mixes up some back-swamp rednecks, a "hanging" judge and an attractive probation officer...
Oct 14th: Christopher Moore - Island of the Sequined Love Nun: After a spectacularly stupid plane crash, pilot Tucker Case gets co-opted by a crooked religious leader and a WWII ghost/cargo cult demi-god...
Oct 17th: Jane Lindskold - 13 Orphans: College freshman Brenda Morris has just found out she's the latest in a line of Eastern magician's linked to the Rat of the Chinese Zodiac. And that there are others all linked to the other animals, all descended from a group of other world exiles. And someone (or ones) is hunting them and stealing their memories...
Oct 18: Hamilton - Night Work: Joe Trumble has hopes that things might be looking up. After several years of mourning the death of his fiance he's started dating again. But after a great first date he's brought by the police to a murder scene. His date has been killed in a way that eerily resembles his fiance's unsolved murder...
Oct 19th: Jim Butcher - Princep's Fury: Rereading Butcher's latest Codex Alera book while waiting for the finale to come out at the end of November. The parasitic Vord continue their conquest of Alera and nothing seems able to even slow them down, much less stop them...
Oct 20th: Stephen King - Just After Sunset: King's most recent collection of short fiction. Some good pieces, but nothing that stands out really...
Butcher - Dead Beat: Figured if I'm going to reread a bunch of Dresden Files books I might as well start with the one with all the zombies, the Wild Hunt and an undead T-Rex...
Oct 21st: Butcher - Proven Guilty: The story opens with Wizard and Warden Dresden having to sit in on the execution of a teen-age warlock. Always a distasteful job, especially for somewhere he spent years with a similar threat hanging over his head. Which is why it makes perfect ironical sense that he'd discover that the oldest daughter of his friend, and Knight of the Cross, Michael is a burgeoning Wizard who's been dabbling in black magic...
Butcher - White Night: Someone has been murdering female minor magical talents across the country. But when they start in Chicago it brings in Harry Dresden, Wizard. Slight mistake on the killers part...
Oct 22nd: Pratchett - Going Postal: Confidence artist supreme Moist VonLipwig finds himself sitting in a death cell waiting to be hanged. But the Patrician Vetinari hates to waste people with "useful" talents...
Oct 23rd: Butcher - Small Favor: Harry Dresden has a pretty full plate. Chicago's crime boss has gone missing, he's got a headstrong apprentice to try and teach and some big supernatural baddies are making waves in his town and some kind of goat-people just tried to kill him during a snowball fight. So of course Mab, Queen of the Winter Court, decides that NOW would be a good time to call in one of her favors...
Oct 24th: Butcher - Turn Coat: Warden Morgan is probably one of Harry's least favorite people. Morgan had spent years watching Harry, waiting for him to slip up so he could cut his head off as a warlock. So of course Dresden is the one he'd turn to when he's wounded and on the run from the rest of the White Council, accused of murder...
Oct 25th: Julian May - Jack the Bodiless: Being the tale of the early years of Paramount psychic Jack Remillard, the birth of the entity known as Fury and the beginning of the Metapyschic Rebellion...
Oct 26th: May - Diamond Mask: Furthering the tale of the Galatic Millieu and its would be conqueror Fury. As well as the life of Dorothea McDonald, sometimes known as Diamond Mask...
Oct 27th: May - Magnificat: The final chapter of Fury and the Metapsychic Rebellion. With the confrontation of husband and wife, Jack the Bodiless and Diamond Mask and Jack's brother and rebel leader Marc Remillard. Called by enemy and ally alike, Abaddon...
Oct 28th: Brian Jacques - Mattimeo: A sequel to Redwall. As the next generation of Redwall Monastery enjoys their childhood new threats appear. Between the Fox and slaver Slagar the Cruel and would-be conqueror General Ironbeak and his corvid army things look dark for the brave beasts of the monastery...
Oct 29th: Joe Haldeman - The Accidental Time Machine: An enjoyable, if somewhat slight, time travel story. A post-graduate student accidentally creates a device that sends itself forward in time by ever-increasing increments. Devising a way to attach it to a vehicle he goes along, only to find himself wanted for murder. And then taking ever longer leaps forward in the hopes of finding a way back...
Oct 31st: Pratchett/Ian Stewart/Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe: The second book that combines Discworld fiction with some truly excellent science explanations. This time focusing much on what is needed for a Build-A-Human kit...
Total books: 31
Oct 4th: Robert Parker - Stranger in Paradise: Chief Stone and his officers have a problem. Native American robber and probable-killer Crow has returned to town. And he's brought a family dispute involving a Florida mobster and a local youth gang with him...
Oct 5th: Steve Hamilton - North of Nowhere: Ex-cop and former P.I. Alex McKnight would prefer to be a hermit in his cabin. But his friends keep dragging him out to socialize. In this case to sit in on a poker game. One that turns into a robbery...
Oct 6th: Steven Gould - Helm: I've said this before, but it bears repeating. This is probably my favorite Lost Human Colony story...
Oct 7th - Flint/Virginia DeMarce - 1635: The Dreeson Incident: I mostly like DeMarce's Ring of Fire work. Mostly. I just wish she'd lay off infodumping the family history of her characters...
Terry Pratchett - Unseen Academicals: Like Making Money the latest Discworld really only has one noticeable flaw. Neither book has anything like a real villain. Though otherwise great book...
Oct 8th: Hamilton - Blood is the Sky: Alex and his friend Vinnie end up having to go into Canada to look for Vinnie's brother and a group of missing hunters...
Oct 9th: Hamilton - Ice Run: A romantic night out for McKnight and his new girlfriend, Ontario peace officer Natalie Reynaud turns odd when an old man leaves them a hat full of snow and a threatening note. And after the old man is found froze to death things begin to get ugly as the story of an old murder involving Natalie's father comes to light...
Oct 10th: Janet Evanovich - Finger Lickin' 15: Bounty Hunter Stephanie Plum, a murdered celebrity chef and a series of break-ins at properties under the protection of Ranger's business. Plus the regular oddball mix of Trenton characters...
Hamilton - Stolen Season: Alex and his friends rescue a group of drunken boaters during a fogged over night. The ungrateful group end up having a connection to a gun-runner case in Canada that an undercover Officer Reynaud is working...
Oct 13th: Elmore Leonard - Maximum Bob: Leonard mixes up some back-swamp rednecks, a "hanging" judge and an attractive probation officer...
Oct 14th: Christopher Moore - Island of the Sequined Love Nun: After a spectacularly stupid plane crash, pilot Tucker Case gets co-opted by a crooked religious leader and a WWII ghost/cargo cult demi-god...
Oct 17th: Jane Lindskold - 13 Orphans: College freshman Brenda Morris has just found out she's the latest in a line of Eastern magician's linked to the Rat of the Chinese Zodiac. And that there are others all linked to the other animals, all descended from a group of other world exiles. And someone (or ones) is hunting them and stealing their memories...
Oct 18: Hamilton - Night Work: Joe Trumble has hopes that things might be looking up. After several years of mourning the death of his fiance he's started dating again. But after a great first date he's brought by the police to a murder scene. His date has been killed in a way that eerily resembles his fiance's unsolved murder...
Oct 19th: Jim Butcher - Princep's Fury: Rereading Butcher's latest Codex Alera book while waiting for the finale to come out at the end of November. The parasitic Vord continue their conquest of Alera and nothing seems able to even slow them down, much less stop them...
Oct 20th: Stephen King - Just After Sunset: King's most recent collection of short fiction. Some good pieces, but nothing that stands out really...
Butcher - Dead Beat: Figured if I'm going to reread a bunch of Dresden Files books I might as well start with the one with all the zombies, the Wild Hunt and an undead T-Rex...
Oct 21st: Butcher - Proven Guilty: The story opens with Wizard and Warden Dresden having to sit in on the execution of a teen-age warlock. Always a distasteful job, especially for somewhere he spent years with a similar threat hanging over his head. Which is why it makes perfect ironical sense that he'd discover that the oldest daughter of his friend, and Knight of the Cross, Michael is a burgeoning Wizard who's been dabbling in black magic...
Butcher - White Night: Someone has been murdering female minor magical talents across the country. But when they start in Chicago it brings in Harry Dresden, Wizard. Slight mistake on the killers part...
Oct 22nd: Pratchett - Going Postal: Confidence artist supreme Moist VonLipwig finds himself sitting in a death cell waiting to be hanged. But the Patrician Vetinari hates to waste people with "useful" talents...
Oct 23rd: Butcher - Small Favor: Harry Dresden has a pretty full plate. Chicago's crime boss has gone missing, he's got a headstrong apprentice to try and teach and some big supernatural baddies are making waves in his town and some kind of goat-people just tried to kill him during a snowball fight. So of course Mab, Queen of the Winter Court, decides that NOW would be a good time to call in one of her favors...
Oct 24th: Butcher - Turn Coat: Warden Morgan is probably one of Harry's least favorite people. Morgan had spent years watching Harry, waiting for him to slip up so he could cut his head off as a warlock. So of course Dresden is the one he'd turn to when he's wounded and on the run from the rest of the White Council, accused of murder...
Oct 25th: Julian May - Jack the Bodiless: Being the tale of the early years of Paramount psychic Jack Remillard, the birth of the entity known as Fury and the beginning of the Metapyschic Rebellion...
Oct 26th: May - Diamond Mask: Furthering the tale of the Galatic Millieu and its would be conqueror Fury. As well as the life of Dorothea McDonald, sometimes known as Diamond Mask...
Oct 27th: May - Magnificat: The final chapter of Fury and the Metapsychic Rebellion. With the confrontation of husband and wife, Jack the Bodiless and Diamond Mask and Jack's brother and rebel leader Marc Remillard. Called by enemy and ally alike, Abaddon...
Oct 28th: Brian Jacques - Mattimeo: A sequel to Redwall. As the next generation of Redwall Monastery enjoys their childhood new threats appear. Between the Fox and slaver Slagar the Cruel and would-be conqueror General Ironbeak and his corvid army things look dark for the brave beasts of the monastery...
Oct 29th: Joe Haldeman - The Accidental Time Machine: An enjoyable, if somewhat slight, time travel story. A post-graduate student accidentally creates a device that sends itself forward in time by ever-increasing increments. Devising a way to attach it to a vehicle he goes along, only to find himself wanted for murder. And then taking ever longer leaps forward in the hopes of finding a way back...
Oct 31st: Pratchett/Ian Stewart/Jack Cohen - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe: The second book that combines Discworld fiction with some truly excellent science explanations. This time focusing much on what is needed for a Build-A-Human kit...
Total books: 31