Jan. '11 Book List
Started off the year by finishing Feist's latest Midkemia book At the Gates of Darkness on the 1st. With the Pug and the Conclave of Shadows, still reeling from the surprise assault on their home, continue to war with the demonic forces looking to invade their world...
On the 4th I finished Bernard Cornwell's Agincourt which reads in many ways like his Sharpe novels. Just with archers instead of riflemen. War in all its blood, mud and "glory"...
After that I returned to S. Andrew Swann's scifi setting, which jumps forward several hundred years. In Prophets various intergalatic powers seek to find out about a mysterious signal from a possible "lost" colony world. In the second book of the trilogy, Heretics, the source of the signal has begun it's crusade to take over all of human controlled space...
Then I started in on Dan Abnett's Warhammer40K Gaunt's Ghosts books, starting with the omnibus "The Founding". I finished the First & Only on the 9th, Ghostmaker on the 11th and Necropolis on the 12th. These first three books mostly serve to introduce Gaunt, the Tanith Guardsmen and then their Verghastian compatriots. Along with plenty of bloody military action...
Of course in the second omnibus, "The Saint", Abnett starts to get bloodthirsty with those characters. From that collection I finished Honour Guard and the Guns of Tanith on the 18th, Straight Silver on the 19th and Sabbat Martyr on the 21st. Fucking, damned Cuu...
From the most recent omnibus, "The Lost", I only finished the first two books in January. Ending the month with Traitor General and the Last Command on the 30th. This is really where over a decade of war begins to bring out cracks in the various Guardsmen in the Ghosts...
In between I broke up the violent doom and gloom of Warhammer with other books. Starting with the final book in Suzanne Collins oh so cheery "Hunger Games" series, Mockingjay on the 14th. I've mentioned it elsewhere, but the part with the cat right at the end just wrecked me....
On the 16th I finished newcomer Dan Wells' I Am Not a Serial Killer. Which is about a teen-age sociopath struggling to subdue his own evil side while trying to fit in with "normal" people. And then having a serial killer start up in his town...
I got the Foglio's literary adaptation of the first volume of their Girl Genius comic, Agatha H and the Airship City and finished it on the 22nd. I'd say the book will work for both existing fans of the comic and the un-initiated...
I reread Bujold's a Civil Campaign on the 23rd. Mostly because I needed the picture perfect happy ending from it. Of course, I did then go and reread the epilogue to Cryoburn, because I couldn't be too happy I suppose...
On the 26th I finished my first Kindle download book, Jane Lindskold's 5 Odd Honors. The book was a nice enough ending (or possible just a pause) in her "Breaking the Wall" series. As for the Kindle, this book and some later stuff seem to work best for reading books at the downtown job, where I can easily leave the power plugged in. Now to just get to figuring out how to uploading stuff from my computer so I can actually get to the beta read bccreations sent me back in December...
Also on the 26th I gave up just over halfway into Robert Sawyer's Flashforward. Soooo dull. No wonder they added some vast conspiracy for the failed television show...
And finally, from right before going back to the 3rd Abnett omnibus I read Sherwood Smith's Wren to the Rescue, an enjoyable YA adventure story. I nice spin on the whole "rescue the princess" plot...
Total books: 20
On the 4th I finished Bernard Cornwell's Agincourt which reads in many ways like his Sharpe novels. Just with archers instead of riflemen. War in all its blood, mud and "glory"...
After that I returned to S. Andrew Swann's scifi setting, which jumps forward several hundred years. In Prophets various intergalatic powers seek to find out about a mysterious signal from a possible "lost" colony world. In the second book of the trilogy, Heretics, the source of the signal has begun it's crusade to take over all of human controlled space...
Then I started in on Dan Abnett's Warhammer40K Gaunt's Ghosts books, starting with the omnibus "The Founding". I finished the First & Only on the 9th, Ghostmaker on the 11th and Necropolis on the 12th. These first three books mostly serve to introduce Gaunt, the Tanith Guardsmen and then their Verghastian compatriots. Along with plenty of bloody military action...
Of course in the second omnibus, "The Saint", Abnett starts to get bloodthirsty with those characters. From that collection I finished Honour Guard and the Guns of Tanith on the 18th, Straight Silver on the 19th and Sabbat Martyr on the 21st. Fucking, damned Cuu...
From the most recent omnibus, "The Lost", I only finished the first two books in January. Ending the month with Traitor General and the Last Command on the 30th. This is really where over a decade of war begins to bring out cracks in the various Guardsmen in the Ghosts...
In between I broke up the violent doom and gloom of Warhammer with other books. Starting with the final book in Suzanne Collins oh so cheery "Hunger Games" series, Mockingjay on the 14th. I've mentioned it elsewhere, but the part with the cat right at the end just wrecked me....
On the 16th I finished newcomer Dan Wells' I Am Not a Serial Killer. Which is about a teen-age sociopath struggling to subdue his own evil side while trying to fit in with "normal" people. And then having a serial killer start up in his town...
I got the Foglio's literary adaptation of the first volume of their Girl Genius comic, Agatha H and the Airship City and finished it on the 22nd. I'd say the book will work for both existing fans of the comic and the un-initiated...
I reread Bujold's a Civil Campaign on the 23rd. Mostly because I needed the picture perfect happy ending from it. Of course, I did then go and reread the epilogue to Cryoburn, because I couldn't be too happy I suppose...
On the 26th I finished my first Kindle download book, Jane Lindskold's 5 Odd Honors. The book was a nice enough ending (or possible just a pause) in her "Breaking the Wall" series. As for the Kindle, this book and some later stuff seem to work best for reading books at the downtown job, where I can easily leave the power plugged in. Now to just get to figuring out how to uploading stuff from my computer so I can actually get to the beta read bccreations sent me back in December...
Also on the 26th I gave up just over halfway into Robert Sawyer's Flashforward. Soooo dull. No wonder they added some vast conspiracy for the failed television show...
And finally, from right before going back to the 3rd Abnett omnibus I read Sherwood Smith's Wren to the Rescue, an enjoyable YA adventure story. I nice spin on the whole "rescue the princess" plot...
Total books: 20