Book List Jan/Feb/March '17
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lurkerwithoutJanuary:
Short Fiction: Seanan McGuire's My Last Name, Velveteen vs. the Retroactive Continuity & Velveteen Presents Jacqueline Claus vs. the Lost & Found; Stephen Leigh's the Atonement Tango
New Read: Eric Flint/Griffen Barber's 1636: Mission to the Mughals
Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath
Yuya Sato's Dendera: Old ladies vs. enviroment. And a marauding bear.
Mira Grant's Parasite
Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl: Coming of age/starting college for the fanfic writer set.
Douglas Hulick's Sworn in Steel
Foz Meadows' An Accident of Stars. Teen travel to magical worlds now with PTSD.
Paula Goodlett/Gorg Hoff's Bartley's Man: "Ring of Fire" sidestory, specifically the Sewing Circle/OPM/Barbies bit.
Grady Hendrix' Horrorstor: There should be an umlaut over that 3rd o. Haunt at not-Ikea.
Evan Curie's Into the Black
Rachel Aaron's No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished
Rereads: Eric Flint's 1635: the Eastern Front, 1636: the Saxon Uprising & 1636: the Ottoman Onslaught
Graphic Novels/TPBs/RPGs: Chris Hastings & Guhiru's the Unbelievable Gwenpool vol.1: Believe It
Stjepan Sejic's Sunstone vol.5: Final volume of the best bdsm-lesbian-romance comic.
John Layman/Rob Guillory's Chew vol.12: Sour Grapes: More than a bit of a downer ending. Not Ex Machina levels, but still.
Total: 18
February:
Short Fiction: Seanan McGuire's Lay of the Land & Velveteen vs. Recovery, Yoon Ha Lee's Extra Curricular Activities.
New Read: Robin McKinley's Deerskin
Tim Pratt's Liar's Blade: Pathfinder tie-in novel.
David Drake's Death's Bright Day: Latest "Lt. Leary".
April Daniel's Dreadnaught: Nemesis: Cape fiction with trans-female lead.
T. Kingfisher's Summer in Orcus YA magical quest from one of the best in the genre.
Ben Aaronovitch's the Hanging Tree: Latest "Rivers of London" with visits the American & Russian magic heritages.
Becky Chambers' the Long Way to the Small, Angry Planet (I'm not crying you're crying shut up) & a Closed and Common Orbit
Daniel Jose Older's Battle Hill Bolero
Jasper Fforde's the Eye of Zoltar
Jack Weathford's the Secret History of the Mongol Queens: Non-fiction history on the female Mongol leaders.
Rereads: -
Graphic Novels/TPBs/RPGs: Jennifer Doyle's Knights Errant
Tom Neely/Keenan Marshall Keller's the Humans vol.1: Humans For Life: Planet of the Apes meets outlaw biker gangs
Total:14
March:
Short Fiction: This was basically the "Neverless, She Persisted" theme Tor.com did. With stories by Seanan McGuire, Kameron Hurley, Hyssa Wong, Carrie Vaughn, Chalie Jane Anders, Nisi Shawl, Brooke Bolander, Jo Walton, Amal El-Mohter, Catherynne M. Valente.
New Read: Jo Walton's the Just City: Athena & Apollo attempt to create Plato's "perfect" Just City. Shockingly the actual and the theoretical do not mesh perfectly.
Chuck Wendig's Invasive. Sequel to the Zer0es. With this second volume its very much supers type bad guy in an espionage/adventure setting.
Chuck Wendig's Atlanta Burns: the Hunt: 2nd of his YA white-trash pulp. "Winter's Bone" meets Veronica Mars I guess.
RJ Ross' Coyote's Howl: Latest "Cape High" book.
C.B. Lee's Not Your Sidekick: YA semi-dystopian with supers.
Seanan McGuire's Magic For Nothing: Latest "InCryptid", with youngest sibling Antimony this time.
Patricia Brigg's Silence Fallen: Latest "Mercy Thompson", with Mercy kidnapped to Europe 'cause vampire politics. And the vamps are really the last interesting part of Brigg's urban fantasy series.
Jim Butcher/Kerrie L. Hughes' (ed) Shadowed Souls: Urban fantasy anthology.
Louis McMaster Bujold's Mira's Last Dance
Anne Leckie's Ancillary Mercy
Matt Dunn's A Day at the Office
Clifford D. Simak's City
George R.R. Martin/Melinda Snodgrass' (ed) High Stakes: This "Wild Cards" volume was actually a bit too dark even for me. I'm looking forward to at least slightly more upbeat future books.
Rereads: John Scalzi's Lock In & Redshirts
Douglas Adams' the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Rereading this I'm suddenly left with the feeling Adams just gave up around the final act.
Graphic Novels/TPBs/RPGs: G. Willow Wilson/Adrian Alphona/Tekeshi Miyezawa/Cameron Stewart's Ms. Marvel vol.6: Civil War II: Carole is in an idjit, out-idioting Tony from the first one.
Gwenda Bond/Kate Leth's Girl Over Paris: Lady high-wire walker vs. ghost mystery.
Marguerite Bennett/Ming Doyle/Marguerite Sauvage/Laura Bragen's Bombshells vol.1: Enlisted
Kate Leth/Brittany Williams' Patsy Walker aka Hellcat! vol.2: Don't Stop Me-ow. Now with teen mom/vampire Jubilee.
Tom King/Michael Walsh/Gabriel Walte/Mike Del Muado's Vision vol.2: Better Than a Beast
Jason Bulmahn's (et al) Pathfinder: Horror Adventures
Sandy Petersen's (et al) Call of Cthulhu: Keeper's Handbook
Total: 24
Short Fiction: Seanan McGuire's My Last Name, Velveteen vs. the Retroactive Continuity & Velveteen Presents Jacqueline Claus vs. the Lost & Found; Stephen Leigh's the Atonement Tango
New Read: Eric Flint/Griffen Barber's 1636: Mission to the Mughals
Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath
Yuya Sato's Dendera: Old ladies vs. enviroment. And a marauding bear.
Mira Grant's Parasite
Rainbow Rowell's Fangirl: Coming of age/starting college for the fanfic writer set.
Douglas Hulick's Sworn in Steel
Foz Meadows' An Accident of Stars. Teen travel to magical worlds now with PTSD.
Paula Goodlett/Gorg Hoff's Bartley's Man: "Ring of Fire" sidestory, specifically the Sewing Circle/OPM/Barbies bit.
Grady Hendrix' Horrorstor: There should be an umlaut over that 3rd o. Haunt at not-Ikea.
Evan Curie's Into the Black
Rachel Aaron's No Good Dragon Goes Unpunished
Rereads: Eric Flint's 1635: the Eastern Front, 1636: the Saxon Uprising & 1636: the Ottoman Onslaught
Graphic Novels/TPBs/RPGs: Chris Hastings & Guhiru's the Unbelievable Gwenpool vol.1: Believe It
Stjepan Sejic's Sunstone vol.5: Final volume of the best bdsm-lesbian-romance comic.
John Layman/Rob Guillory's Chew vol.12: Sour Grapes: More than a bit of a downer ending. Not Ex Machina levels, but still.
Total: 18
February:
Short Fiction: Seanan McGuire's Lay of the Land & Velveteen vs. Recovery, Yoon Ha Lee's Extra Curricular Activities.
New Read: Robin McKinley's Deerskin
Tim Pratt's Liar's Blade: Pathfinder tie-in novel.
David Drake's Death's Bright Day: Latest "Lt. Leary".
April Daniel's Dreadnaught: Nemesis: Cape fiction with trans-female lead.
T. Kingfisher's Summer in Orcus YA magical quest from one of the best in the genre.
Ben Aaronovitch's the Hanging Tree: Latest "Rivers of London" with visits the American & Russian magic heritages.
Becky Chambers' the Long Way to the Small, Angry Planet (I'm not crying you're crying shut up) & a Closed and Common Orbit
Daniel Jose Older's Battle Hill Bolero
Jasper Fforde's the Eye of Zoltar
Jack Weathford's the Secret History of the Mongol Queens: Non-fiction history on the female Mongol leaders.
Rereads: -
Graphic Novels/TPBs/RPGs: Jennifer Doyle's Knights Errant
Tom Neely/Keenan Marshall Keller's the Humans vol.1: Humans For Life: Planet of the Apes meets outlaw biker gangs
Total:14
March:
Short Fiction: This was basically the "Neverless, She Persisted" theme Tor.com did. With stories by Seanan McGuire, Kameron Hurley, Hyssa Wong, Carrie Vaughn, Chalie Jane Anders, Nisi Shawl, Brooke Bolander, Jo Walton, Amal El-Mohter, Catherynne M. Valente.
New Read: Jo Walton's the Just City: Athena & Apollo attempt to create Plato's "perfect" Just City. Shockingly the actual and the theoretical do not mesh perfectly.
Chuck Wendig's Invasive. Sequel to the Zer0es. With this second volume its very much supers type bad guy in an espionage/adventure setting.
Chuck Wendig's Atlanta Burns: the Hunt: 2nd of his YA white-trash pulp. "Winter's Bone" meets Veronica Mars I guess.
RJ Ross' Coyote's Howl: Latest "Cape High" book.
C.B. Lee's Not Your Sidekick: YA semi-dystopian with supers.
Seanan McGuire's Magic For Nothing: Latest "InCryptid", with youngest sibling Antimony this time.
Patricia Brigg's Silence Fallen: Latest "Mercy Thompson", with Mercy kidnapped to Europe 'cause vampire politics. And the vamps are really the last interesting part of Brigg's urban fantasy series.
Jim Butcher/Kerrie L. Hughes' (ed) Shadowed Souls: Urban fantasy anthology.
Louis McMaster Bujold's Mira's Last Dance
Anne Leckie's Ancillary Mercy
Matt Dunn's A Day at the Office
Clifford D. Simak's City
George R.R. Martin/Melinda Snodgrass' (ed) High Stakes: This "Wild Cards" volume was actually a bit too dark even for me. I'm looking forward to at least slightly more upbeat future books.
Rereads: John Scalzi's Lock In & Redshirts
Douglas Adams' the Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul. Rereading this I'm suddenly left with the feeling Adams just gave up around the final act.
Graphic Novels/TPBs/RPGs: G. Willow Wilson/Adrian Alphona/Tekeshi Miyezawa/Cameron Stewart's Ms. Marvel vol.6: Civil War II: Carole is in an idjit, out-idioting Tony from the first one.
Gwenda Bond/Kate Leth's Girl Over Paris: Lady high-wire walker vs. ghost mystery.
Marguerite Bennett/Ming Doyle/Marguerite Sauvage/Laura Bragen's Bombshells vol.1: Enlisted
Kate Leth/Brittany Williams' Patsy Walker aka Hellcat! vol.2: Don't Stop Me-ow. Now with teen mom/vampire Jubilee.
Tom King/Michael Walsh/Gabriel Walte/Mike Del Muado's Vision vol.2: Better Than a Beast
Jason Bulmahn's (et al) Pathfinder: Horror Adventures
Sandy Petersen's (et al) Call of Cthulhu: Keeper's Handbook
Total: 24
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