Readings for Nov
Spellbound by Kelley Armstrong. Fantasy. Otherworld series. Hardcover. 325 pages. Library. Savannah Levine must find out what happened to her magic powers, uncover a conspiracy, and finally get Adam to notice she’s a woman now.
Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong. Fantasy. Otherworld series. Hardcover. 339 pages. Elena and Clayton, a married couple, have adventures in Alaska while chasing a mutt (non-pack werewolf)
Econned by Yves Smith. Economics non-fiction. Nook. For book club. About the reasons for the economic crisis.
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail-and Why We Believe Them Anyway by Dan Gardner. For book club
That Used to Be Us, by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. Nonfiction - current events/politics. Why greed is preventing us from doing something about America’s deterioration and why the Chinese can build an airport in less time than it takes us to fix a Metro escalator.
Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey. Fantasy. Hardback. Library. The flip side of Tolkien’s epic quest from the pov of the dark lord and his followers.
Dancing with Bears by Michael Swanwick, A Dagger and Surplus novel. Hardcover. Library. The misadventures of two con men (one genetically engineered from canine genes) in a future, post-Collapse Russia where one manages to become abassador and the other starts training a boy in the art of the con.
Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs. Nonfiction. Politics/Current events. Hardcover. Library. What’s wrong with America and how it can be fixed.
Intuition by Allegra Goodman. Fiction (general). Library, audiobook. Not science fiction but fiction about scientists. Two postdocs working in a research lab have a relationship, but when they end it, the woman accuses the man of scientific fraud.
Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce (counts as half) YA fantasy. Four books in her The Circle Opens series
Street Magic by Tamora Pierce (counts as half) YA fantasy
Cold Fire by Tamora Pierce (counts as half) YA fantasy
Shadowglass by Tamora Pierce (counts as half) YA fantasy
First Test by Tamora Pierce. (half) YA Fantasy. Reread (half) - Two books in her Protector of the small series (re-reads)
Page by Tamora Pierce (half) YA Fantasy. Reread (half)
Thresholds by Nina Kiriki Hoffman YA fantasy (counts as half). A girl who moves to a new town finds her next door neighbors are magic.
Podcast short stories. I’m going to count this as a magazine so half.
13 books (four nonfiction, 6.5 fantasy (3.5 YA, 1 re-read), 1 SF, .5 magazine, 1 general fiction) so 132.5 for the year. To make 3 books per week, I need 23.5 in Dec (or find some read books I left out)
Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong. Fantasy. Otherworld series. Hardcover. 339 pages. Elena and Clayton, a married couple, have adventures in Alaska while chasing a mutt (non-pack werewolf)
Econned by Yves Smith. Economics non-fiction. Nook. For book club. About the reasons for the economic crisis.
Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail-and Why We Believe Them Anyway by Dan Gardner. For book club
That Used to Be Us, by Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum. Nonfiction - current events/politics. Why greed is preventing us from doing something about America’s deterioration and why the Chinese can build an airport in less time than it takes us to fix a Metro escalator.
Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey. Fantasy. Hardback. Library. The flip side of Tolkien’s epic quest from the pov of the dark lord and his followers.
Dancing with Bears by Michael Swanwick, A Dagger and Surplus novel. Hardcover. Library. The misadventures of two con men (one genetically engineered from canine genes) in a future, post-Collapse Russia where one manages to become abassador and the other starts training a boy in the art of the con.
Price of Civilization by Jeffrey Sachs. Nonfiction. Politics/Current events. Hardcover. Library. What’s wrong with America and how it can be fixed.
Intuition by Allegra Goodman. Fiction (general). Library, audiobook. Not science fiction but fiction about scientists. Two postdocs working in a research lab have a relationship, but when they end it, the woman accuses the man of scientific fraud.
Magic Steps by Tamora Pierce (counts as half) YA fantasy. Four books in her The Circle Opens series
Street Magic by Tamora Pierce (counts as half) YA fantasy
Cold Fire by Tamora Pierce (counts as half) YA fantasy
Shadowglass by Tamora Pierce (counts as half) YA fantasy
First Test by Tamora Pierce. (half) YA Fantasy. Reread (half) - Two books in her Protector of the small series (re-reads)
Page by Tamora Pierce (half) YA Fantasy. Reread (half)
Thresholds by Nina Kiriki Hoffman YA fantasy (counts as half). A girl who moves to a new town finds her next door neighbors are magic.
Podcast short stories. I’m going to count this as a magazine so half.
13 books (four nonfiction, 6.5 fantasy (3.5 YA, 1 re-read), 1 SF, .5 magazine, 1 general fiction) so 132.5 for the year. To make 3 books per week, I need 23.5 in Dec (or find some read books I left out)