October '10 Book List
This was a bit of a light month for me. Starting with rereading much of my McCaffery Pern books. The Harper Hall of Pern and The Renegades of Pern on the 2nd. All the Weyrs of Pern and The Dolphins of Pern on the 3rd. And The Skies of Pern on the 5th. All of which makes me wish she and her new writing partner would stop with the prequel stuff and revisit the "current" time again. I just don't care about the previous plagues but do want to know what Lord Torric's next scheme is...
On the 6th another reread, First Lord's Fury, the giant climatic finale to Jim Butcher's Aleran Codex series...
Finished the latest Ring of Fire book on the 8th, 1635: the Eastern Front a solo book by series creator Eric Flint. Following the United States of Europe's campaign against Saxony, Bohemia (I think) and then Poland...
Then more rereading on the 12th and 15th. Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies respectively, the first and so far only two books in his Gentlemen Bastards series. Though I see Fantastic Fiction is projecting a February '11 launch for the third book. Fingers crossed on that...
On the 19th I finished the recently reprinted anthology Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi. Definitely worth a read for any fans of cyberpunk, near-future noir genre. "The People of Sand & Slag", "Pump Six" and "Pop Squad" especially stuck with me...
Started rereading Jane Lindskold's Through Wolf's Eyes series on the 21st. I do so enjoy reading about raised-by-wolves Firekeeper and her friends...
Though I paused from that series when I got the latest steampunk WWI book from Paul Westerfeld, Behemoth, finishing it on the 23rd. With girl-disguised-as-a-boy airship crewman Deryn and the incognito missing Hapsburg prince Alek getting drawn into the politics of the Ottoman Empire in the hopes of keeping them out of the war...
Got back to Lindskold and reading Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart on the 26th. Which has Firekeeper and the other's chasing magical artifacts in the magic-crazed land of New Kelvin...
Then more Jim Butcher when I got his short story collection Side Jobs which I was done with on the 27th. I'd read all but a couple of them already of course. But I only owned a few. And one of those is "Backup" which was previously available as an almost criminally over-priced hard cover. Even with the Mike Mignola illustrations. And the last, which is first published here, "Aftermath" takes place almost immediately following Changes. And like "Backup" its one of the few not from Harry's perspective. In this case, being a Karin Murphy eye's view tale...
And on the 30th I finished the first Hunger Games book by Suzanne Collins. Which is a post-society collapse where the current Big Government engages in some truly nasty bread & circus entertainment involving drafted teens and a to the death gladiator contest...
Through the last week of the month I was also beta reading The Triad Society from friend Joe Selby. And as always heres to hoping he finds an agent and publisher so I can add his books to my shelf. The Triad Society is a steampunk setting story, though set right at the beginning of the equivilant to an Industrial Revolution. Which is giving rise to numerous commoner and noble secret societys that could bring about a different kind of revolution. I especially enjoyed the lead character who is more than a bit of a pompous jerk. But who at least does what can be seen as the "right" thing even if its more out of a sense of nobelesse oblige...
Total books: 16
On the 6th another reread, First Lord's Fury, the giant climatic finale to Jim Butcher's Aleran Codex series...
Finished the latest Ring of Fire book on the 8th, 1635: the Eastern Front a solo book by series creator Eric Flint. Following the United States of Europe's campaign against Saxony, Bohemia (I think) and then Poland...
Then more rereading on the 12th and 15th. Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora and Red Seas Under Red Skies respectively, the first and so far only two books in his Gentlemen Bastards series. Though I see Fantastic Fiction is projecting a February '11 launch for the third book. Fingers crossed on that...
On the 19th I finished the recently reprinted anthology Pump Six and Other Stories by Paolo Bacigalupi. Definitely worth a read for any fans of cyberpunk, near-future noir genre. "The People of Sand & Slag", "Pump Six" and "Pop Squad" especially stuck with me...
Started rereading Jane Lindskold's Through Wolf's Eyes series on the 21st. I do so enjoy reading about raised-by-wolves Firekeeper and her friends...
Though I paused from that series when I got the latest steampunk WWI book from Paul Westerfeld, Behemoth, finishing it on the 23rd. With girl-disguised-as-a-boy airship crewman Deryn and the incognito missing Hapsburg prince Alek getting drawn into the politics of the Ottoman Empire in the hopes of keeping them out of the war...
Got back to Lindskold and reading Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart on the 26th. Which has Firekeeper and the other's chasing magical artifacts in the magic-crazed land of New Kelvin...
Then more Jim Butcher when I got his short story collection Side Jobs which I was done with on the 27th. I'd read all but a couple of them already of course. But I only owned a few. And one of those is "Backup" which was previously available as an almost criminally over-priced hard cover. Even with the Mike Mignola illustrations. And the last, which is first published here, "Aftermath" takes place almost immediately following Changes. And like "Backup" its one of the few not from Harry's perspective. In this case, being a Karin Murphy eye's view tale...
And on the 30th I finished the first Hunger Games book by Suzanne Collins. Which is a post-society collapse where the current Big Government engages in some truly nasty bread & circus entertainment involving drafted teens and a to the death gladiator contest...
Through the last week of the month I was also beta reading The Triad Society from friend Joe Selby. And as always heres to hoping he finds an agent and publisher so I can add his books to my shelf. The Triad Society is a steampunk setting story, though set right at the beginning of the equivilant to an Industrial Revolution. Which is giving rise to numerous commoner and noble secret societys that could bring about a different kind of revolution. I especially enjoyed the lead character who is more than a bit of a pompous jerk. But who at least does what can be seen as the "right" thing even if its more out of a sense of nobelesse oblige...
Total books: 16