March Book List
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lurkerwithoutMarch 2nd: Christopher Moore - The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove: I think this is now my favorite Moore book. Possibly because it has someone having sex with a sea monster/dragon...
March 3rd: Glen Cook - A Shadow of All Night Falling: I just could not get into this one. Cook's high fantasy stuff just doesn't work for me. I ended up giving this to the roommate, just like I did with my Black Company books...
March 4th: Sherwood Smith/Dave Trowbridge - Phoenix in Flight: Reread Exordium again. I just really love this series...
March 7th: Smith/Trowbridge - Ruler of Naught: Just my favorite far future/space opera type books. Everyone should read them...
March 8th: Smith/Trowbridge - A Prison Unsought: No, seriously. You should all go and pick them up now. I'll wait...
March 10th: Smith/Trowbridge - The Rifter's Covenant: Its a pity Trowbridge has passed on, since it makes a sequel highly unlikely...
March 11th: Smith/Trowbridge - The Thrones of Kronos: Still you can go and bugsartorias about it. Or at least try and convince her to liscense a GURPS book...
March 15th: Catherynee M. Valente - Palimpsest: Huh, Gore Vidal has a book with the same name. Weird. Anyway this is a hard book to adequetely describe. Valente has a lush and imagery heavy style of prose. And the book itself is basically about a city of dreams that is explored by having sex with other people who have visited it. But its very hard to do it justice with just that. Its imaginative and different from the general crowd and well worth taking a look at...
March 16th: Anton Strout - Deader Still: I made it thru the first book in this series ok, but couldn't for the second. Just too bland. Gave up after only a few chapters. Seriously, how does someone make a boat load of people slaughtered by vampires BORING? Maybe it got better later, but the sub-genre of modern fantasy/paranormal mystery is too crowded right now to need to put up with a dull series...
March 17th: Mark del Franco - Unfallen Dead: Like here, del Franco probably won't be toppling Jim Butcher or other front-runners anytime soon, but his book at the very least wasn't DULL. Street level characters who play for world shaking stakes. A nice afternoon or evening's read...
March 18th: Robert Parker - High Profile: A Jesse Stone book. A famous political radio show host is found dead in Paradise and Stone has to unravel the man's life to find out who caused his death...
March 22nd: Martin Millar - Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me: Like I said last time I read this, the highest praise I can give it is that Millar makes me want to go out and buy all of Zeppelin's albums. And I don't really like the band all that much...
March 23: Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy: I really wish Fforde would put out a new Nursery Crime or Thursday Next book. I'm suffering from a lack of new United Kingdom humor. Or humour I guess...
Fforde - The Fourth Bear: Though I'd even settle for Shades of Grey to finally come out. But mostly I want to see what kind of noir/fairy tale/police procedural mash-up Fforde manages with the Tortoise & Hare race...
March 24th: A. Lee Martinez - Too Many Curses: So I pick up my own copy of this book about a kobold servant who sort-of inherits her wizard master's magical keep while house-sitting last month. I'd bought it the last day I was watching my mom's place. And then I get home and find that the roommate had given me his copy after he started culling his stuff in anticipation of moving next month. So annoying. Excellent book though, like all of Martinez' stuff...
Parker - Blue Screen: The one Sunny Randall book I was missing. Sunny is hired to bodyguard a b-list actress. But after the actress' sister is found dead Sunny is hired to investigate the murder. Which brings her into contact with local chief of police, Jesse Stone...
March 25th: Lois McMaster Bujold - Horizon: Fourth and looks to be final book in her Sharing Knife series. Dag and his wife Fawn manage to find another Lakewalker group willing to take them in temporarily and even a teacher for Dag's growing Maker and healing abilities. But after he heals a Farmer child of lock-jaw they are forced onto the road again. But this time, while working with a group of would-be settlers, they may have a way to bring the Lakewalkers and Farmers closer together. If they can survive a new type of Malice...
March 29: Stephen King - Duma Key: Really slow build on this one. Which leaves teh final and climatic act feeling a bit rushed compared to the rest of the book. And its a couple hundred pages so its really not. But in comparison is all. The book itself deals with a man who develops a previously unhinted at artistic talent after he moves to the Florida Keys following a work-place accident that costs him his arm and his marriage. And there he finds he has a more dangerous gift linked to his rapidly evolving skill as an artist...
Total Books: 18
March 3rd: Glen Cook - A Shadow of All Night Falling: I just could not get into this one. Cook's high fantasy stuff just doesn't work for me. I ended up giving this to the roommate, just like I did with my Black Company books...
March 4th: Sherwood Smith/Dave Trowbridge - Phoenix in Flight: Reread Exordium again. I just really love this series...
March 7th: Smith/Trowbridge - Ruler of Naught: Just my favorite far future/space opera type books. Everyone should read them...
March 8th: Smith/Trowbridge - A Prison Unsought: No, seriously. You should all go and pick them up now. I'll wait...
March 10th: Smith/Trowbridge - The Rifter's Covenant: Its a pity Trowbridge has passed on, since it makes a sequel highly unlikely...
March 11th: Smith/Trowbridge - The Thrones of Kronos: Still you can go and bug
sartorias about it. Or at least try and convince her to liscense a GURPS book...March 15th: Catherynee M. Valente - Palimpsest: Huh, Gore Vidal has a book with the same name. Weird. Anyway this is a hard book to adequetely describe. Valente has a lush and imagery heavy style of prose. And the book itself is basically about a city of dreams that is explored by having sex with other people who have visited it. But its very hard to do it justice with just that. Its imaginative and different from the general crowd and well worth taking a look at...
March 16th: Anton Strout - Deader Still: I made it thru the first book in this series ok, but couldn't for the second. Just too bland. Gave up after only a few chapters. Seriously, how does someone make a boat load of people slaughtered by vampires BORING? Maybe it got better later, but the sub-genre of modern fantasy/paranormal mystery is too crowded right now to need to put up with a dull series...
March 17th: Mark del Franco - Unfallen Dead: Like here, del Franco probably won't be toppling Jim Butcher or other front-runners anytime soon, but his book at the very least wasn't DULL. Street level characters who play for world shaking stakes. A nice afternoon or evening's read...
March 18th: Robert Parker - High Profile: A Jesse Stone book. A famous political radio show host is found dead in Paradise and Stone has to unravel the man's life to find out who caused his death...
March 22nd: Martin Millar - Suzy, Led Zeppelin and Me: Like I said last time I read this, the highest praise I can give it is that Millar makes me want to go out and buy all of Zeppelin's albums. And I don't really like the band all that much...
March 23: Jasper Fforde - The Big Over Easy: I really wish Fforde would put out a new Nursery Crime or Thursday Next book. I'm suffering from a lack of new United Kingdom humor. Or humour I guess...
Fforde - The Fourth Bear: Though I'd even settle for Shades of Grey to finally come out. But mostly I want to see what kind of noir/fairy tale/police procedural mash-up Fforde manages with the Tortoise & Hare race...
March 24th: A. Lee Martinez - Too Many Curses: So I pick up my own copy of this book about a kobold servant who sort-of inherits her wizard master's magical keep while house-sitting last month. I'd bought it the last day I was watching my mom's place. And then I get home and find that the roommate had given me his copy after he started culling his stuff in anticipation of moving next month. So annoying. Excellent book though, like all of Martinez' stuff...
Parker - Blue Screen: The one Sunny Randall book I was missing. Sunny is hired to bodyguard a b-list actress. But after the actress' sister is found dead Sunny is hired to investigate the murder. Which brings her into contact with local chief of police, Jesse Stone...
March 25th: Lois McMaster Bujold - Horizon: Fourth and looks to be final book in her Sharing Knife series. Dag and his wife Fawn manage to find another Lakewalker group willing to take them in temporarily and even a teacher for Dag's growing Maker and healing abilities. But after he heals a Farmer child of lock-jaw they are forced onto the road again. But this time, while working with a group of would-be settlers, they may have a way to bring the Lakewalkers and Farmers closer together. If they can survive a new type of Malice...
March 29: Stephen King - Duma Key: Really slow build on this one. Which leaves teh final and climatic act feeling a bit rushed compared to the rest of the book. And its a couple hundred pages so its really not. But in comparison is all. The book itself deals with a man who develops a previously unhinted at artistic talent after he moves to the Florida Keys following a work-place accident that costs him his arm and his marriage. And there he finds he has a more dangerous gift linked to his rapidly evolving skill as an artist...
Total Books: 18
