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Jan. Book List '09
Feb. 1st, 2010 05:07 pmJan 1st: Andrew Vachss - The Getaway Man: Another of Vachss' pulp crime books. Eddie is more than a bit slow and has been in and out of juvie and prison. But he's got one thing going for him. A skill with any kind of car...
Jan 4th: Harry Turtledove - The United States of Atlantis: The middle book in another Turtledove alt-history. In this one the continent of Atlantis is discovered and colonized at the same time as the Americas. With Atlantean stand-ins for the familiar American Revolutionaries...
Jan 7th: Vachss - Two Trains Running: A familiar story by now, feuding criminal organizations and a deadly stranger comes to town...
Jan 8th: John Ringo - East of the Sun, West of the Moon: In the fourth volume of Ringo's far-future pseudo-fantasy you've got orcs in space as the two factions fight over a returning fuel ship for the world's fusion reactors...
Jan 9th: Neil Gaiman - Odd & the Frost Giants: A young Norwegian lad, hiding from his step-father, is recruited to help rescue the Norse gods...
Lois McMaster Bujold - Paladin of Souls: Bujold crafts an excellent fantasy with reluctant prophets, demon-wracked foes and obsessive wives...
Jan 10th: Elizabeth Moon - Change of Command: The Familas Regnant struggles to evolve as the strains of potential immortality begin to crack apart their society...
Jan 11th: Moon - Against the Odds: The finale to the Serrano/Familas Regnant series. Newlywed Esmay Suiza-Serrano finds herself seemingly kicked out of Fleet in the middle of the struggle against the mutineers. And with their second Prime Minister assassinated the Familas must learn to adapt or fall...
Jan 13th: Tamora Pierce - : Protector of the Small: The omnibus collection of Keladry's training to become Tortall's second female knight in hundreds of years...
Jan 14th: Charlie Huston - The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: I'm not sure how easily describe this excellent new book from Huston. So I'll just link to review by Stephen King that sold me on it...
Jan 16th: Rob Rogers - Devil's Cape: I've read this dark supers novel several times already, but always someone else's copy. So I reread it when I finally picked up a copy for myself...
Charlaine Harris - A Touch of Dead: A collection of short stories for Harris' Southern Vampire series. The Dracula one is fairly amusing and another filled in a section of missing between two of the books that had been bothering me...
Jan 18th: Eric Flint/Andrew Dennis - 1635: Cannon Law: One of the more recent Ring of Fire altered history shared world books. One of the Spanish Hapsburg's more volatile members starts a Papal civil war in Rome, with newlywed Ron Stone and the American embassy caught in the middle...
Jan 19th: Flint/Marilyn Kostmatka - Time Spike: A related novel to the Ring of Fire series. Back in the 'current' time another time event occurs. This one sending a prison in Southern Illinois back to one of the dinosaur periods. But this one drags along groups from other time periods as well. Including a small tribe being sent along the Trail of Tears, various villages of Mound Builders and vicious army of Conquistadors...
Jan 20th: Jim C. Hines - The Stepsister Scheme: This one was more than a bit of a pleasant surprise. I picked it up hoping just for something to bide me over. But this alternate fairy tale book with its new versions of Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty hooked me...
Jan 21st: John & Faye Kellerman - Capital Crimes: A pair of police procedurals from husband & wife mystery writers. The first deals with the murder of a lesbian state councilwoman in California. The other with the killing of a 70s-era rock star right before a charity group concert in Nashville...
Jan 24th: William Gibson - Spook Country: A nice enough book, though at times it felt like Gibson writing as Neal Stephenson...
Jan 26th: Hines - The Mermaid's Madness: Princess Cinderella and her allies must deal with the survivors from The Little Mermaid tale in order to save the Queen's life...
Jan 27th & 28th: Pierce - Terrier & Bloodhound: Pierce's Beka Cooper fantasy/cop books are probably some of my favorite books. Not surprising then that I've reread them so often in a short time...
Jan 30th: Charles Stross - Saturn's Children: A far-future espionage book. With humanity long dead, the stars now belong to our partially liberated mechanical A.I. servants. Like Freya Nakamichi, who was designed to be a sex toy for a people that no longer exist and so has to try and find some other purpose...
Total books: 21
Jan 4th: Harry Turtledove - The United States of Atlantis: The middle book in another Turtledove alt-history. In this one the continent of Atlantis is discovered and colonized at the same time as the Americas. With Atlantean stand-ins for the familiar American Revolutionaries...
Jan 7th: Vachss - Two Trains Running: A familiar story by now, feuding criminal organizations and a deadly stranger comes to town...
Jan 8th: John Ringo - East of the Sun, West of the Moon: In the fourth volume of Ringo's far-future pseudo-fantasy you've got orcs in space as the two factions fight over a returning fuel ship for the world's fusion reactors...
Jan 9th: Neil Gaiman - Odd & the Frost Giants: A young Norwegian lad, hiding from his step-father, is recruited to help rescue the Norse gods...
Lois McMaster Bujold - Paladin of Souls: Bujold crafts an excellent fantasy with reluctant prophets, demon-wracked foes and obsessive wives...
Jan 10th: Elizabeth Moon - Change of Command: The Familas Regnant struggles to evolve as the strains of potential immortality begin to crack apart their society...
Jan 11th: Moon - Against the Odds: The finale to the Serrano/Familas Regnant series. Newlywed Esmay Suiza-Serrano finds herself seemingly kicked out of Fleet in the middle of the struggle against the mutineers. And with their second Prime Minister assassinated the Familas must learn to adapt or fall...
Jan 13th: Tamora Pierce - : Protector of the Small: The omnibus collection of Keladry's training to become Tortall's second female knight in hundreds of years...
Jan 14th: Charlie Huston - The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death: I'm not sure how easily describe this excellent new book from Huston. So I'll just link to review by Stephen King that sold me on it...
Jan 16th: Rob Rogers - Devil's Cape: I've read this dark supers novel several times already, but always someone else's copy. So I reread it when I finally picked up a copy for myself...
Charlaine Harris - A Touch of Dead: A collection of short stories for Harris' Southern Vampire series. The Dracula one is fairly amusing and another filled in a section of missing between two of the books that had been bothering me...
Jan 18th: Eric Flint/Andrew Dennis - 1635: Cannon Law: One of the more recent Ring of Fire altered history shared world books. One of the Spanish Hapsburg's more volatile members starts a Papal civil war in Rome, with newlywed Ron Stone and the American embassy caught in the middle...
Jan 19th: Flint/Marilyn Kostmatka - Time Spike: A related novel to the Ring of Fire series. Back in the 'current' time another time event occurs. This one sending a prison in Southern Illinois back to one of the dinosaur periods. But this one drags along groups from other time periods as well. Including a small tribe being sent along the Trail of Tears, various villages of Mound Builders and vicious army of Conquistadors...
Jan 20th: Jim C. Hines - The Stepsister Scheme: This one was more than a bit of a pleasant surprise. I picked it up hoping just for something to bide me over. But this alternate fairy tale book with its new versions of Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty hooked me...
Jan 21st: John & Faye Kellerman - Capital Crimes: A pair of police procedurals from husband & wife mystery writers. The first deals with the murder of a lesbian state councilwoman in California. The other with the killing of a 70s-era rock star right before a charity group concert in Nashville...
Jan 24th: William Gibson - Spook Country: A nice enough book, though at times it felt like Gibson writing as Neal Stephenson...
Jan 26th: Hines - The Mermaid's Madness: Princess Cinderella and her allies must deal with the survivors from The Little Mermaid tale in order to save the Queen's life...
Jan 27th & 28th: Pierce - Terrier & Bloodhound: Pierce's Beka Cooper fantasy/cop books are probably some of my favorite books. Not surprising then that I've reread them so often in a short time...
Jan 30th: Charles Stross - Saturn's Children: A far-future espionage book. With humanity long dead, the stars now belong to our partially liberated mechanical A.I. servants. Like Freya Nakamichi, who was designed to be a sex toy for a people that no longer exist and so has to try and find some other purpose...
Total books: 21
