subplotkudzu | Preparing for the back half of the year

With the Christmas presents finished it's time to work on thhe new Birthday Presents. Again, this is not counting graphic novels or gaming supplies (though some graphic novels turned up in the birthday presents, including Fables volume 9 that came from returning my in laws well-intentioned but poorly researched purchases of the new Raymond Feist and R.A. Salvatore Novels), and given that this half of the year produces a skimpier list I am adding some classics that I ought to read or reread.

The Hope Diamond: the legendary history of a cursed gem by Richard Kurin
The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox
From the End of the Twentieth Century by John M. Ford
The Ghosts of 42nd Street: a history of America's most notorious block by Anthony Bianco
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fford (actually a reread, as I jusst got my own copy)
The Complete Novels of Jane Austin volume 1 - Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park (I just finished S&S today, P&P will be a re-read after 19 years)
The Works of Jules Verne - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon and collected short stories (Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in Eighty Days are also in collection, but I read those just a few years back
Acclelerando by Charles Stross (actually a loaner from

netcurmudgeon, but I promise to get to it!)

All told I'm pretty happy with the pile. Plus there's a B&N gift card from my aunt that will mutate into something. We'll see how successful I am in 6 months time.