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Jun. 5th, 2009
May Book List
Jun. 5th, 2009 08:50 pmI meant to get to this earlier in the week, but I kept putting it off. Because I'm lazy...
May 2nd: Harry Harrison - King & Emperor: Shef, King of the North, travels to Muslim controlled Spain. The Caliph, suffering constant losses from the allied Byzantium Empire and Holy German Empire, looks into making an alliance with the pagan/Christian nation that opposes Emperor Bruno. The finale for the series, with plenty of battles and leaps in science. Harrison is one of the better alternate history writers...
May 3rd: C.E. Murphy - Coyote Dreams: Probably the most interesting thing Murphy does with this series is NOT make the show-down with this book's Big Bad involve a fight...
May 5th: Pratchett - Making Money: While one of the weaker Discworld books, thats like calling it the worst chok'lit cake. Its all still good...
May 9th: Tamora Pierce - Protector of the Small: After the Bekka Cooper books, Keladry's journey from page to second female knight is my favorite of Pierce's books...
May 13th: Brian Jacques - Redwall: Heroic mice and their allies vs. an army of evil vermin. I wonder how you'd go about making a sparrow character for Mouse Guard: the RPG...
May 14th: Mercedes Lackey - The Eagle & the Nighingales: 2nd to last of Lackey's Free Bards series. Cross-species romance and intrigue in the capitol city and court ofthe High King...
May 15th: Charlaine Harris - From Dead to Worse: Rereading this Sookie Stackhouse book before reading the latest...
Harris - Dead & Gone: Fallout from the takeover of Louisiana by the Nevada vampire king, the breakup between Sookie's werepanther brother and his wife and a Faerie War involving her newly found Great-grandfather...
May 19th: Peter Straub - lost boy lost girl: A masterfully told ghost story that manages to be creepy, sad and touching all at once...
May 24th: Bruce Sterling - A Good Old-Fashioned Future: An excellent collection of modern, near future and far future cyberpunk short stories...
May 26th: Pratchett - Thud!: Most recent Ankh-Morpokh Watch book. And while the Vimes bits are good (especially those involving him reading to his son), its the interplay between Sgt. Angua and new recruit Sally the vampire. I mean seriously, its like Pratchett put most of it in there JUST to provide fodder for fanfic slash writers...
May 27th: Harlan Ellison - Troublemakers: A collection of Ellison's short fiction with brief essays introducing them. Which, after reading several of them, made me want to punch him in his elderly, smug, pompous face. The essays, not the short stories. Some of those show their age, especially where he's speculating on future technologies, but they're basically still solid stuff. But the current bits just annoyed me so damn much I tossed the book into the trade-in box. I can find Ellison's work in other collections, without having to put up with how much of a blowhard jackass he is now...
May 29th: Austin Grossman - Soon I Will Be Invincible: The split story of super villain Dr. Impossible and relative rookie hero, cyborg soldier Fatale. I'd like to see more of Grossman's supers setting, though maybe only from a singular point of view...
May 31st: William Dietz - Legion of the Damned: Start of rereading Dietz' far future military scifi series, focusing on the potential future Foreign Legion. Getting its name from the cyborg troopers made-up of death row prisoners and those willing to attempt to cheat death for a time...
Total Books: 14
May 2nd: Harry Harrison - King & Emperor: Shef, King of the North, travels to Muslim controlled Spain. The Caliph, suffering constant losses from the allied Byzantium Empire and Holy German Empire, looks into making an alliance with the pagan/Christian nation that opposes Emperor Bruno. The finale for the series, with plenty of battles and leaps in science. Harrison is one of the better alternate history writers...
May 3rd: C.E. Murphy - Coyote Dreams: Probably the most interesting thing Murphy does with this series is NOT make the show-down with this book's Big Bad involve a fight...
May 5th: Pratchett - Making Money: While one of the weaker Discworld books, thats like calling it the worst chok'lit cake. Its all still good...
May 9th: Tamora Pierce - Protector of the Small: After the Bekka Cooper books, Keladry's journey from page to second female knight is my favorite of Pierce's books...
May 13th: Brian Jacques - Redwall: Heroic mice and their allies vs. an army of evil vermin. I wonder how you'd go about making a sparrow character for Mouse Guard: the RPG...
May 14th: Mercedes Lackey - The Eagle & the Nighingales: 2nd to last of Lackey's Free Bards series. Cross-species romance and intrigue in the capitol city and court ofthe High King...
May 15th: Charlaine Harris - From Dead to Worse: Rereading this Sookie Stackhouse book before reading the latest...
Harris - Dead & Gone: Fallout from the takeover of Louisiana by the Nevada vampire king, the breakup between Sookie's werepanther brother and his wife and a Faerie War involving her newly found Great-grandfather...
May 19th: Peter Straub - lost boy lost girl: A masterfully told ghost story that manages to be creepy, sad and touching all at once...
May 24th: Bruce Sterling - A Good Old-Fashioned Future: An excellent collection of modern, near future and far future cyberpunk short stories...
May 26th: Pratchett - Thud!: Most recent Ankh-Morpokh Watch book. And while the Vimes bits are good (especially those involving him reading to his son), its the interplay between Sgt. Angua and new recruit Sally the vampire. I mean seriously, its like Pratchett put most of it in there JUST to provide fodder for fanfic slash writers...
May 27th: Harlan Ellison - Troublemakers: A collection of Ellison's short fiction with brief essays introducing them. Which, after reading several of them, made me want to punch him in his elderly, smug, pompous face. The essays, not the short stories. Some of those show their age, especially where he's speculating on future technologies, but they're basically still solid stuff. But the current bits just annoyed me so damn much I tossed the book into the trade-in box. I can find Ellison's work in other collections, without having to put up with how much of a blowhard jackass he is now...
May 29th: Austin Grossman - Soon I Will Be Invincible: The split story of super villain Dr. Impossible and relative rookie hero, cyborg soldier Fatale. I'd like to see more of Grossman's supers setting, though maybe only from a singular point of view...
May 31st: William Dietz - Legion of the Damned: Start of rereading Dietz' far future military scifi series, focusing on the potential future Foreign Legion. Getting its name from the cyborg troopers made-up of death row prisoners and those willing to attempt to cheat death for a time...
Total Books: 14
