I've fallen way behind on my readings list.  Here's August

Fire and Hemlock by Diana Jones (re-read). YA Fantasy

On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers(re-read) Fantasy/horror with pirates - These two were for discussions at Worldcon.  I went to the Stranger Tides one

Territory by Emma Bull (re-read). Fantasy/Western -- This was for a book group

Starship ( Read more... )

I've fallen behind in my reading and my posting ( Read more... )

F&SF double issue

A Madness of Angels: Or the Resurrection of Mathew Swift by Kate Griffin

The City and the City by China Mieville

The Midnight Mayor by Kate Griffin

Outlander by Diane Gabaldon (re-read)

Collapse by Jared Diamond

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabadon (re-read)

The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (re-read)

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I've gotten behind in posting my readings.  Here's May

Crisis Economics by Nouriel Roubini.  Nonfiction, economics. 368 pages. Library. Read for Futurist book club. Written by one of the few economists to predict the economic crisis, this book claims that crises are fairly common and was the result of defects in our financial system. It was not a ( Read more... )

Continued catalog of my reading

Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong (library). Fantasy/mystery. HB 309 pages. Savannah Levine, now grown up, has her first solo case when a P.I. who is friends with her parents (who are on vacation) asks for help solving the murders of several women in a small town. At first there doesn’t seem to be a supernatural ( Read more... )

 I should have posted my readings from last month but haven't.  I also need to get into the habit of writing the mini-review right after reading instead of trying to reconstruct it later.

Waking the Witch by Kelley Armstrong (library). HB 309 pages. Savannah Levine, now grown up, has her first solo case when a P.I. who is friends with her parents ( ( Read more... )

In an earlier entry, I confessed to being slightly overbooked with book clubs.  Here's what happened.

April 1 - local SF club does F&SF, which being a double issue, is equivalent to a short book.
I read this and went to the discussion
April 6 - my regular non-fiction book club does Shock of Gray, about the aging population. 
I read this and went to the ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm awfully late on part 2.

Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. SF. I probably read should have read this before Saltation which is the second book in the duology set in the popular liaden universe. Basically this is Theo’s life before going to space academy. Her mother separates from her father for reasons of academic politics. Her ( Read more... )

March Read Books

Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn. paperback 272 pages- This is the first in the werewolf talk show host series. I liked how Kitty does not start out as an alpha female but grows as her radio show becomes more popular. The romance angle with T.J. didn’t go where I assumed it would, so the author gets credit for not taking ( Read more... )

It is possible that I'm in too many book clubs/reading groups

Or maybe it is just that the timing for this month is awkward.

Here's what I have this month.

April 1 - my local SF club does F&SF, which being a double issue, is equivalent to a short book.
April 6 - my regular non-fiction book club does Shock of Gray, about the aging population.  This is ( Read more... )