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I'm trying to keep better track of my books for this year, having lost the thread a while back. As in the past, I track book reading from Christmas to my birthday in July for the first half of the year, and then the rest of the year as the back half.
I've had a pretty productive week:
1) A Wizard of Earthsea: started right before Christmas, this is one that I should have read long ago but kept failing to get into. Once I caught the thread of Le Guin's voice it was a fine read.
2-3) THUNDER Agents archives Volumes 5 & 6: this completes my quest ot get back issues of this venerable series (mentioned here previously as a very good Supers RPG frame story). The quality of the tales really fell off towards the end, but you can still see flashes of brilliance in it - but the bad stories are very second rate.
4) Girl Genius Volume 6: The Voice of the Castle: The Foglio's ongoing masterpiece is still a joy to read. The plot inches forfard even as the cast broadens, but they keep all the balls in the air - no mean feat given the number of plots and counterplots in this gaslap romance.
5) Growing Up Weightless (reread): Just got a copy of this for Christmas, and I definately got more out of the second read then I did the first. Bloody brilliant, thought provoking and constructed with consummate grace. I can't help but be impressed with the book being one long tracking shot even as I know Ford likely did it just to prove he could.
6) The Devils in the Details: Three short stpries, one by Tim Powers, one by James Blaylock and one that they wrote together. Not bad, but not their best work either. I haven't read any of Blaylock's short fircition, but I know that I prefer Powers in longer works where he can flesh out the world and characters a bit more.
7) Thirty Three Teeth: Colin Cotteril's second Dr. Suri mystery, set in 1970's Laos just after the communist twakeover. The supernatural elements didn't bother me this time, I suspect because they are now a part of the setting rather than feeling like an intrusion to it. Very enjoyable and reeks with verisimilitude. I have the next two piled on the 'to read' shelf and am itching to get to them.
Not a bad first week. More to come, including the
I've had a pretty productive week:
1) A Wizard of Earthsea: started right before Christmas, this is one that I should have read long ago but kept failing to get into. Once I caught the thread of Le Guin's voice it was a fine read.
2-3) THUNDER Agents archives Volumes 5 & 6: this completes my quest ot get back issues of this venerable series (mentioned here previously as a very good Supers RPG frame story). The quality of the tales really fell off towards the end, but you can still see flashes of brilliance in it - but the bad stories are very second rate.
4) Girl Genius Volume 6: The Voice of the Castle: The Foglio's ongoing masterpiece is still a joy to read. The plot inches forfard even as the cast broadens, but they keep all the balls in the air - no mean feat given the number of plots and counterplots in this gaslap romance.
5) Growing Up Weightless (reread): Just got a copy of this for Christmas, and I definately got more out of the second read then I did the first. Bloody brilliant, thought provoking and constructed with consummate grace. I can't help but be impressed with the book being one long tracking shot even as I know Ford likely did it just to prove he could.
6) The Devils in the Details: Three short stpries, one by Tim Powers, one by James Blaylock and one that they wrote together. Not bad, but not their best work either. I haven't read any of Blaylock's short fircition, but I know that I prefer Powers in longer works where he can flesh out the world and characters a bit more.
7) Thirty Three Teeth: Colin Cotteril's second Dr. Suri mystery, set in 1970's Laos just after the communist twakeover. The supernatural elements didn't bother me this time, I suspect because they are now a part of the setting rather than feeling like an intrusion to it. Very enjoyable and reeks with verisimilitude. I have the next two piled on the 'to read' shelf and am itching to get to them.
Not a bad first week. More to come, including the
