July 2011 books
July 2011 started with a visit to Ireland to celebrate my mother's 70th birthday (which actually fell at the end of June; she turns 80 next month). My photos from the party are, frankly, embarrassingly poor. Here's the two best ones I got, my great aunt (who had just turned 95, and will turn 105 next month) with my mother and six of my mother's eight siblings; and 11-year-old F with my great aunt who unfortunately had her eyes closed at the moment I took the shot.
Back at home, I found a new place to take B, the Paterskerk at Tienen. And we had an outing to a windmill.
Apart from all that, I read 23 books in July 2011.
Non-fiction 3 (YTD 35)
Manufacture and Uses of Alloy Steels, by Henry D. Hibbard
The Faerie Queene: a selection of critical essays, edited by Peter Bayley
Terre des Hommes, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (probably a bit fictionalised, but presented as a memoir)
Non-sf 3 (YTD 28)
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows
SF (non-Who) 6 (YTD 43)
I Am Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
A Feast For Crows, by George R.R. Martin
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
The Lost Road, by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin
Doctor Who etc 9 (YTD 49)
The Brilliant Book [of Doctor Who] 2011
Doctor Who Annual 1986
The Glamour Chase, by Gary Russell
State of Change, by Christopher Bulis
The Dalek Book, by David Whitaker and Terry Nation
Conundrum, by Steve Lyons
Revolution Man, by Paul Leonard
Dead of Winter, by James Goss
Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies, by Justin Richards
Comics 2 (YTD 17)
The Day I Swapped My Dad For 2 Goldfish, by Neil Gaiman
Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, by Phil and Kaja Foglio
~7,300 pages (YTD ~49,700)
2/23 (YTD 29/172) by women (Shaffer/Barrows, Foglio)
1/23 (YTD 10/172) by PoC (Ellison)
My two top new reads this month were The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which you can get here, and A Dance with Dragons, which you can get here. As per usual, I bounced firmly off Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, which you may be able to get here.
Back at home, I found a new place to take B, the Paterskerk at Tienen. And we had an outing to a windmill.
Apart from all that, I read 23 books in July 2011.
Non-fiction 3 (YTD 35)
Manufacture and Uses of Alloy Steels, by Henry D. Hibbard
The Faerie Queene: a selection of critical essays, edited by Peter Bayley
Terre des Hommes, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (probably a bit fictionalised, but presented as a memoir)
Non-sf 3 (YTD 28)
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows
SF (non-Who) 6 (YTD 43)
I Am Not A Serial Killer, by Dan Wells
The Magicians, by Lev Grossman
A Feast For Crows, by George R.R. Martin
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis
The Lost Road, by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Dance with Dragons, by George R.R. Martin
Doctor Who etc 9 (YTD 49)
The Brilliant Book [of Doctor Who] 2011
Doctor Who Annual 1986
The Glamour Chase, by Gary Russell
State of Change, by Christopher Bulis
The Dalek Book, by David Whitaker and Terry Nation
Conundrum, by Steve Lyons
Revolution Man, by Paul Leonard
Dead of Winter, by James Goss
Doctor Who: Aliens and Enemies, by Justin Richards
Comics 2 (YTD 17)
The Day I Swapped My Dad For 2 Goldfish, by Neil Gaiman
Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, by Phil and Kaja Foglio
~7,300 pages (YTD ~49,700)
2/23 (YTD 29/172) by women (Shaffer/Barrows, Foglio)
1/23 (YTD 10/172) by PoC (Ellison)
My two top new reads this month were The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, which you can get here, and A Dance with Dragons, which you can get here. As per usual, I bounced firmly off Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, which you may be able to get here.