May Reading List
May 3rd: Christopher Golden (ed) - Hellboy: Odder Jobs: The second collection of Hellboy short stories...
Diane Duane - A Wizard Abroad: Fourth book in Duane's Young Wizards series. Nita gets sent to Ireland by her parents, who think that will distract her from all this wizarding stuff. Not much chance of that really...
May 6th: Greg Rucka - Keeper: First of Rucka's Atticus Kodiak book. Atticus is hired by a Planned Parenthood doctor to guard her and her Downs' daughter from religious fanatics...
May 7th: Rucka - A Gentleman's Game: A Queen & Country novel. Set in between Operation: Saddlebags and Operation: Red Panda. Or what happened to Tom and Tara. Man, was I angry at Tara's bosses in this one. Loyalty is a two way road and all that...
May 10th: C.E. Murphy - Heart of Stone: How to describe this. Its like Disney's Gargoyles mashed up with the Beauty & the Beast tv show, set in some small press companies off-market version of the World of Darkness. Also I read this right around the time the NYPD was getting off for gunning down unarmed minority civilians. Again. So the lead's on again, off again cop boyfriend and his arrogance really annoyed the fuck out of me...
May 11th: Steven Gould - Jumper: All I can see after rereading this again is how glad I am that I avoided the movie version...
May 13th: Rucka - Shooting At Midnight: 4th Atticus Kodiak book. Though this one concentrates on his sometime girlfriend, PI Bridget Logan. Who revisits her teen-age junkie culture trying to clear a friend of murder charges...
May 14th: Richard K. Morgan - Altered Carbon: First of Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs books. A combination of noir and far future mil-spec scifi. In the futuristic setting FTL travel is impossible. And prisoners have their minds uploaded into virtual storage. Which means when you need an ex-military operative to prove you didn't commit suicide, you have his consciousness beamed to you from hundreds of light years away and uploaded into the empty shell of a prisoner to conduct the investigation...
May 16th: Stephen King - Everything's Eventual: Most recent anthology of King's short stories...
May 18th: Morgan - Woken Furies: Third Kovacs' book. Kovacs is back on his home world and gets distracted from his one-man religious war by getting drawn into the latest Quellist Rebellion...
May 20th: Christopher Moore - Island of the Sequined Love Nun: Drunk pilots, cargo cult, minor godlings, ninjas and cannibals. All involved in some way with an organ legging ring on a remote Micronesian island...
May 22nd: Robert Howard - Kull: Exile of Atlantis: A collection of Howard's Kull short stories and the fragments of various unfinished pieces. Good stuff, especially for Conan fans...
May 24th: William Dietz - When All Seems Lost: Seventh and latest Legion of the Damned book. The president of the Confederacy is captured by the Ramthians, who don't know what they have. With the president just one prisoner among many in a POW labor camp, the VP attempts a coup. But the Legion already has a desperate rescue plan in action...
May 25th: Rucka - Smoker: 3rd Atticus Kodiak book. Kodiak gets drawn into helping with the protection of a key witness against Big Tobacco who has been targeted by one of the mysterious Ten. One of the vague ten deadliest assassin's in the world...
May 26th: Elmore Leonard - Up in Honey's Room: A sequel to The Hot Kid which was a sequel to Cuba Libre. US Marshall Carlos Webster is looking for a pair of escaped German POWs around Detroit at the close of the European front during WW2. And dealing with American Bundt and Honey, a woman who tempts him to forget his marriage vows...
May 27th: Rucka - Private Wars: New mother Tara Chace is brought back into Her Majesty's service trying to help the son of the president of Uzbekistan escape from his more ruthless sister. All as part of various political games in MI6...
May 28th: Morgan - Broken Angels: Second Kovacs' book. Takeshi goes AWOL in the midst of a planetary civil war to try and take advantage of an alien archaeological find. Of course between the revolutionaries, his former mercenary allies and his current corporate allies nothing is as simple as it seems...
May 30th: Spider Robinson - The Callahan Touch: Maybe I'm just more cynical now. But Robinson's idealized Bar Commune doesn't appeal to me anymore. Maybe its just how much I hate drunks now, that makes me scoff at his Group Telepathy Through Friendly Boozing. Of course Solace the Whiny A.I. didn't help. I'm sorry, but you're hurt that the group of people you've been LYING to about your nature are initially afraid of you? To fucking bad. You want total acceptance try not pretending to be people's dead friends...
May 31st: A. Lee Martinez - In the Company of Ogres: The tale of Never Dead Ned, incompetent soldier who can't stay dead. Making him, in the eyes of the Dread Legion's leaders, the perfect person to take over as CO for Ogre Company. A unit whose previous commanders all died under "mysterious" circumstances...
Total books: 19
Diane Duane - A Wizard Abroad: Fourth book in Duane's Young Wizards series. Nita gets sent to Ireland by her parents, who think that will distract her from all this wizarding stuff. Not much chance of that really...
May 6th: Greg Rucka - Keeper: First of Rucka's Atticus Kodiak book. Atticus is hired by a Planned Parenthood doctor to guard her and her Downs' daughter from religious fanatics...
May 7th: Rucka - A Gentleman's Game: A Queen & Country novel. Set in between Operation: Saddlebags and Operation: Red Panda. Or what happened to Tom and Tara. Man, was I angry at Tara's bosses in this one. Loyalty is a two way road and all that...
May 10th: C.E. Murphy - Heart of Stone: How to describe this. Its like Disney's Gargoyles mashed up with the Beauty & the Beast tv show, set in some small press companies off-market version of the World of Darkness. Also I read this right around the time the NYPD was getting off for gunning down unarmed minority civilians. Again. So the lead's on again, off again cop boyfriend and his arrogance really annoyed the fuck out of me...
May 11th: Steven Gould - Jumper: All I can see after rereading this again is how glad I am that I avoided the movie version...
May 13th: Rucka - Shooting At Midnight: 4th Atticus Kodiak book. Though this one concentrates on his sometime girlfriend, PI Bridget Logan. Who revisits her teen-age junkie culture trying to clear a friend of murder charges...
May 14th: Richard K. Morgan - Altered Carbon: First of Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs books. A combination of noir and far future mil-spec scifi. In the futuristic setting FTL travel is impossible. And prisoners have their minds uploaded into virtual storage. Which means when you need an ex-military operative to prove you didn't commit suicide, you have his consciousness beamed to you from hundreds of light years away and uploaded into the empty shell of a prisoner to conduct the investigation...
May 16th: Stephen King - Everything's Eventual: Most recent anthology of King's short stories...
May 18th: Morgan - Woken Furies: Third Kovacs' book. Kovacs is back on his home world and gets distracted from his one-man religious war by getting drawn into the latest Quellist Rebellion...
May 20th: Christopher Moore - Island of the Sequined Love Nun: Drunk pilots, cargo cult, minor godlings, ninjas and cannibals. All involved in some way with an organ legging ring on a remote Micronesian island...
May 22nd: Robert Howard - Kull: Exile of Atlantis: A collection of Howard's Kull short stories and the fragments of various unfinished pieces. Good stuff, especially for Conan fans...
May 24th: William Dietz - When All Seems Lost: Seventh and latest Legion of the Damned book. The president of the Confederacy is captured by the Ramthians, who don't know what they have. With the president just one prisoner among many in a POW labor camp, the VP attempts a coup. But the Legion already has a desperate rescue plan in action...
May 25th: Rucka - Smoker: 3rd Atticus Kodiak book. Kodiak gets drawn into helping with the protection of a key witness against Big Tobacco who has been targeted by one of the mysterious Ten. One of the vague ten deadliest assassin's in the world...
May 26th: Elmore Leonard - Up in Honey's Room: A sequel to The Hot Kid which was a sequel to Cuba Libre. US Marshall Carlos Webster is looking for a pair of escaped German POWs around Detroit at the close of the European front during WW2. And dealing with American Bundt and Honey, a woman who tempts him to forget his marriage vows...
May 27th: Rucka - Private Wars: New mother Tara Chace is brought back into Her Majesty's service trying to help the son of the president of Uzbekistan escape from his more ruthless sister. All as part of various political games in MI6...
May 28th: Morgan - Broken Angels: Second Kovacs' book. Takeshi goes AWOL in the midst of a planetary civil war to try and take advantage of an alien archaeological find. Of course between the revolutionaries, his former mercenary allies and his current corporate allies nothing is as simple as it seems...
May 30th: Spider Robinson - The Callahan Touch: Maybe I'm just more cynical now. But Robinson's idealized Bar Commune doesn't appeal to me anymore. Maybe its just how much I hate drunks now, that makes me scoff at his Group Telepathy Through Friendly Boozing. Of course Solace the Whiny A.I. didn't help. I'm sorry, but you're hurt that the group of people you've been LYING to about your nature are initially afraid of you? To fucking bad. You want total acceptance try not pretending to be people's dead friends...
May 31st: A. Lee Martinez - In the Company of Ogres: The tale of Never Dead Ned, incompetent soldier who can't stay dead. Making him, in the eyes of the Dread Legion's leaders, the perfect person to take over as CO for Ogre Company. A unit whose previous commanders all died under "mysterious" circumstances...
Total books: 19