Just getting this under the wire.  Starting off June with Mur Lafferty's the Shambling Guide to New York City.  Which is about writing tour books for the supernatural community.  Some nice twists on the usual modern paranormal tropes...

From one of my various Kickstarter rewards I got Harry Connelly's  King Khan.  Which is a pulp adventure story ( Read more... )

And the first book finished in '13 is Robin Wyrick's Eviction Notice. A mostly comedy scifi story where aliens are going to jettison every living thing on Earth into space because of a senior prank involving crop circles...

Then a quick reread of Pratchett's Small Gods brought on by some online discussion of women in his work. Mostly to double ( Read more... )

October is somewhat unusual in that I don't see a single reread on the relatively short list. Even Harry Harrison's The Works of Harry Harrison didn't include anything I'd already read. Not even the Stainless Steel Rat story which serves to introduce Jim deGriz' nemesis and future wife. Of the remainder, really only "Deathworld" truly stands out ( Read more... )

Started the month by rereading David Weber's "Honor Harrington" books. From At Basilisk Station to A Rising Thunder. Including the, then, two Talbott Cluster sub-series books Shadow of Saganami and Storm From the Shadows. Though I didn't reread the two co-written by Eric Flint. The main thing that I get from mass reading of Weber is the ability ( Read more... )

And just under the wire I get to the June book list. Which starts with rereading the Honorverse anthologies. Well the stories that worked in the setting. I'm looking at you John Ringo. More than Honor, Worlds of Honor, Changer of Worlds, the Service of the Sword and In Fire Forged. I was going to get to the regular Honor-verse books again, but ( Read more... )

Its still June so this isn't late. Well its tolerably late. Tolerably to me anyway. Shut up, your moms a procrastinator!

Hrrumph

Anyway, started off May with Senrid, a somewhat disapointing Sherwood Smith book set in her main fantasy setting. I'd say I liked about half of this, though that was scattered all thru the book. And the using magic ( Read more... )

Started off the month with In Fire Forged the newest Honor-verse anthology edited by David Weber. Only three stories in this one, by Jane Lindskold, Timothy Zahn and Weber. Both Zahn and Lindskold mesh their styles well to compliment Weber's setting ( Read more... )

Opened up the month with still more David Weber. This time the 2nd through 5th books of his "Safehold" series, By Schism Rent Asunder, By Heresies Distressed, a Mighty Fortress and How Firm a Foundation. Thats the one where the remnants of humanity escape a genocidal alien race to a secret colony. And then the people running the colony warp the ( Read more... )

So the totals for last year; Jan: 20 + Feb: 19 + Mar: 24 + Apr: 53 + May: 20 + Jun: 15 + Jul: 28 + Aug: 23 + Sep: 28 + Oct: 21 + Nov: 20 + Dec: 23 = Total: 294

Previous Year Past Totals -
'06: 246
'07: 211
'08: 247
'09: 296
'10: 272

That big total for April was due to spending a week or so at work just rereading the 30+ odd Grantville Gazette e- ( Read more... )

OK, lets finally get to the December list. Which is nearly entirely David Weber through the majority of the month. But before that we've got a few other books, including some more cheap random deals for the ol' Kindle. Starting with Jennifer Gardiner's Slim to None about a New York film critic and her relationship with food, family and ( Read more... )