Seventy-sixth book started & finished in 2010: The Huckleberry Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery by Patrick F. McManus (260 pp).

Was it interesting? As I said in my review of The Double-Jack Murders*, these are mysteries where the mystery isn't terribly mysterious, but the novel is about the setting and the characters and what crisis envelops ( Read more... )

Seventy-fifth book started & finished in 2010: The 13 Clocks by James Thurber (illustrated by Marc Simont) (124 pp ( Read more... )

Seventy-fourth book started & finished in 2010: Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout (292 pp ( Read more... )

Seventy-third book started & finished in 2010: Ship Breaker by Paolo Bagicalupi (326 pp).

Was it interesting? I enjoyed the YA perspective on the environmentally-damaged earth of the future. Not quite as grim as The Wind-up Girl, but it did have its moments ( Read more... )

Seventieth book started & finished in 2010: Broken Mirrors by T.A. Pratt (212 pp ( Read more... )

Sixty-ninth book started & finished in 2010: The Word Museum: The Most Remarkable English Words Ever Forgotten by Jeffrey Kacirk (224 pp, not counting the extensive bibliography ( Read more... )

Sixty-eighth book started & finished in 2010: Bone and Jewel Creatures by Elizabeth Bear (131 pp ( Read more... )

Sixty-seventh book started & finished in 2010: Dreadnought by Cherie Priest (400 pp).

Was it interesting? I really enjoyed this one. I liked the survey of Clockwork Century America (such as it was), and (long story short) it was fun.

Well-written? I liked that this was one long point of view, unlike Boneshaker or Clementine. I thought it ( Read more... )

Sixty-sixth book started & finished in 2010: I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett (355 pp, including Feegle glossary ( Read more... )

Sixty-fifth book started & finished in 2010: Return: An Innkeeper's World Story by Peter S. Beagle (101 pp ( Read more... )