July '13 Book List Meme
Started off July with Faerie After, the finale to Janni Lee Simner's post-WW3 vs. the elves trilogy. Much of the book deals with learning to move past grief and loss...
After that was Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night, probably my favorite of his adapted movies, even if this was my first time reading the actual story. One of his best I think...
Got the e-arc of the next "Ring of Fire" book, 1636: the Devil's Opera by Eric Flint and David Carrico. It meshes together several of the ongoing series from the anthologies, the Madeburg Musicians and Madeburg PD. Plus its set during the end part of "Saxon Uprising", which all together gives it a bit of a smooshed together feeling, like the individual pieces weren't enough to hold together a story on their own. Plus I like the original "Symphony For the Devil" title better...
Then the newest Garrett book from Glen Cook, Wicked Bronze Ambition. Which has Garrett dealing with his future in-laws and all their friends. Who are all basically upper class, crazy wizards. I enjoyed seeing that Cook was continuing the Morley Dotes/Belinda Contague relationship as well, though not making it easy for the pair...
I actually thought Sherwood Smith's Banner of the Damned was going to be a prequel to her "Inda" series. Instead its set several centuries after those books...
Ex-Communication is the 3rd in Peter Clines' supers vs. zombies series. This time around the Hollywood survivor community is introduced to an additional supernatural threat. And a new kind of zombie in the form of a strange teenage girl...
Also finally got around to reading the first of Lois McMaster Bujold's "Chalion" books, Curse of Chalion. Which meant, of course, then rereading Paladin of Souls and the Hallowed Hunt...
Constellations is the first collection of "Liaden" short fiction by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. I'd read a few of their short pieces but they're scattered all over and there are like a bazillion of them. So this reprint series definitely makes me happy...
Steven Gould's Impulse is the third book in his "Jumper" series. It follows the daughter of the lead characters from the previous two books as she both develops her own teleportation abilities and enters public school for the first time. While I didn't like it as much as Jumper it was a definite improvement over the 2nd book, Reflex...
I picked up the Monster's Corner an anthology of semi-horror edited by Christopher Golden on the cheap somewhere. It only had a few clunkers in it, but also not many memorable or outstanding pieces...
Neal Asher's the Deperature is a near future dystopia/space exploitation book. Parts of it made me wonder if it is meant as a prequel to his "Polity" series. Which I'll probably get a better idea of once I pick up the next two books in the trilogy...
Finished out July rereading David Weber's "Safehold" series, getting to Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed and a Mighty Fortress. All of which leaves me impatiently waiting until next February for the next book...
On the free range short fiction, only three for July. Susan Palwick's "Homecoming" is a girl goes to sea disguised as a boy story. Nathan Ballingrud's "the Monsters of Heaven" is a sad story of loss and angels. Well, sort of angels. And Jeffrey Ford's "Rocket Ship to Hell" a bar story about a private enterprise attempt at a spacecraft crewed by artists...
Total Books: 17
After that was Kurt Vonnegut's Mother Night, probably my favorite of his adapted movies, even if this was my first time reading the actual story. One of his best I think...
Got the e-arc of the next "Ring of Fire" book, 1636: the Devil's Opera by Eric Flint and David Carrico. It meshes together several of the ongoing series from the anthologies, the Madeburg Musicians and Madeburg PD. Plus its set during the end part of "Saxon Uprising", which all together gives it a bit of a smooshed together feeling, like the individual pieces weren't enough to hold together a story on their own. Plus I like the original "Symphony For the Devil" title better...
Then the newest Garrett book from Glen Cook, Wicked Bronze Ambition. Which has Garrett dealing with his future in-laws and all their friends. Who are all basically upper class, crazy wizards. I enjoyed seeing that Cook was continuing the Morley Dotes/Belinda Contague relationship as well, though not making it easy for the pair...
I actually thought Sherwood Smith's Banner of the Damned was going to be a prequel to her "Inda" series. Instead its set several centuries after those books...
Ex-Communication is the 3rd in Peter Clines' supers vs. zombies series. This time around the Hollywood survivor community is introduced to an additional supernatural threat. And a new kind of zombie in the form of a strange teenage girl...
Also finally got around to reading the first of Lois McMaster Bujold's "Chalion" books, Curse of Chalion. Which meant, of course, then rereading Paladin of Souls and the Hallowed Hunt...
Constellations is the first collection of "Liaden" short fiction by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. I'd read a few of their short pieces but they're scattered all over and there are like a bazillion of them. So this reprint series definitely makes me happy...
Steven Gould's Impulse is the third book in his "Jumper" series. It follows the daughter of the lead characters from the previous two books as she both develops her own teleportation abilities and enters public school for the first time. While I didn't like it as much as Jumper it was a definite improvement over the 2nd book, Reflex...
I picked up the Monster's Corner an anthology of semi-horror edited by Christopher Golden on the cheap somewhere. It only had a few clunkers in it, but also not many memorable or outstanding pieces...
Neal Asher's the Deperature is a near future dystopia/space exploitation book. Parts of it made me wonder if it is meant as a prequel to his "Polity" series. Which I'll probably get a better idea of once I pick up the next two books in the trilogy...
Finished out July rereading David Weber's "Safehold" series, getting to Off Armageddon Reef, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed and a Mighty Fortress. All of which leaves me impatiently waiting until next February for the next book...
On the free range short fiction, only three for July. Susan Palwick's "Homecoming" is a girl goes to sea disguised as a boy story. Nathan Ballingrud's "the Monsters of Heaven" is a sad story of loss and angels. Well, sort of angels. And Jeffrey Ford's "Rocket Ship to Hell" a bar story about a private enterprise attempt at a spacecraft crewed by artists...
Total Books: 17