1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.
2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
3. Fractured by Karin Slaughter.
4. Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin.
5. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez.
6. Undone by Karin Slaughter.

7. Thor by Walter Simonson Omnibus by Walter Simonson, Sal Buscema, et al. This is a pricy item--I was lucky enough to get it as a ( Read more... )

1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.
2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
3. Fractured by Karin Slaughter.
4. Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin.
5. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez.

6. Undone by Karin Slaughter. The Grant County and Atlanta/Will Trent books come together in an extremely satisfying, character-driven way in this book. There's ( Read more... )

1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.
2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
3. Fractured by Karin Slaughter.
4. Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin.

5. Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez. So far this year, I am reading v e r y s l o w l y. This book took me some time to finish, because Gabo's chapters are very long, and his memoir style is ( Read more... )

1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.
2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf.
3. Fractured by Karin Slaughter.

4. Orsinian Tales by Ursula K. Le Guin. I wish I had a name more like Ursula, because if I was to create a fictional country and name it after myself I think the results would be less elegant and more obvious. Davidia? Doesn't work. I really like what Le ( Read more... )

1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.
2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf.

3. Fractured by Karin Slaughter. After the insane events of Beyond Reach it's perhaps inevitable that this transitional novel would be a little bit of a letdown. It's not that it isn't good, just that there isn't as much history with these characters, and that I miss the folks from ( Read more... )

1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.

2. Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I am overwhelmed by this book. It is smart, wry, fanciful, gorgeous, insightful, and whimsical--the scalpel of Woolf's intelligence that she wields so well in Three Guineas and A Room of One's Own turned playful without becoming frivolous. But that doesn't really do Orlando--the book or ( Read more... )

1. Feral Cell by Richard Bowes.

After I read Rick's story "I Needs Must Part, the Policeman Said" when it was published in F&SF, I wrote him a little fan email. In his response he mentioned that the story was in part autobiographical, and that the narrator's reference to a novel he was working on was a reference to this novel. (Whether you read ( Read more... )

I read 123 books this year. (This is not a lot; someone on my f-list posted the list of books they had read this year, and it was over 700.) My number went up, I think, because I took more advantage of the comics available at the library. I have considered, at times, not including comics in these posts, but the reasons for that seem to boil down to ( Read more... )

Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
Books 91-100.
Books 101-110.
Books 111-120.
121. Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male & Female by Phyllis Burke.
122. The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald.

123. Powers by Ursula K. Le Guin. The third book of the ( Read more... )

Books 1-10.
Books 11-20.
Books 21-30.
Books 31-40.
Books 41-50.
Books 51-60.
Books 61-70.
Books 71-80.
Books 81-90.
Books 91-100.
Books 101-110.
Books 111-120.
121. Gender Shock: Exploding the Myths of Male & Female by Phyllis Burke.

122. The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. (Re-read.) A while back I read the Lattimore ( Read more... )