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February Book List 2010
Mar. 6th, 2010 02:53 pmFeb 1st: Raymond Feist & S.M. Stirling - Jimmy the Hand: Set in one of the various lengthy blank spaces of Feist's Rift/Serpent/Shadow War series. In this case following young thief Jimmy the Hand after he helps Arutha and Anita escape Krondor but well before the end of the Tsurani invasion...
Feb 2nd: Michael Chabon - The Final Solution: A short book about an elderly Sherlock Holmes, who decides to emerge from his retirement to help a mute Jewish boy and WWII refugee find his stolen parrot...
Feb 3rd: Diane Duane - A Wizard Alone: One of Duane's Young Wizards books. With Nita and her family still grieving from the loss of her mother, Kit seems to be on his own in trying to help a new Wizard survive his Trial...
Feb 5th: Tom Holt - Barking: I'd say this is now my favorite Tom Holt book and my second-favorite book about werewolves...
Feb 7th: Joe Lansdale - Mad Dog Summer: A collection of short fiction by Lansdale. General fiction, steampunk westerns and pulp parody...
Feb 8th: P.N. Elrod - Dark Road Rising: The most recent Jack Fleming book. With Fleming struggling to repair the rifts in his friendships from the last books descent into despair. And coping with fellow vampire and reluctant gangster "Whitey" Kroun. The book splits the story's perspective between the two...
Feb 11th: Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt: Set in Bujold's "Curse of Chalion" world, Lady Ijada is a minor noblewoman who kills a crown prince in self defense. And Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff has to find a way to keep her alive in spite of politics and the strange and fell magics circling the whole event...
Feb 13th: Stephen King (Bachman) - Blaze: A "lost" Richard Bachman story that King polished up and released. About a simple-minded petty crook who attempts to carry out a kidnapping even after his partner, the brains of their set, is killed...
Feb 15th: Lansdale - The Two Bear Mambo: After a hundred or so pages I realized I really didn't want to read about Hap and Leonard dealing with racist morons in a small Texas town while looking for a missing woman. So I skipped to the last couple chapters where God punishes the town for being full of asshole rednecks...
Feb 16th: Emma Bull - Territory: I gave away my first copy of this occult Western at Christmas, so I decided to reread it after picking up a new copy. Bull's story adds dark and secret magics to the famed Tombstone story of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday...
Feb 21st: C.E. Murphy - Walking Dead: Police detective Joanne Walker has grown more confidant in both her job and her calling as a shaman. Enough that she's trying to date and even helping throw a big Halloween party. Of course malevolent spirits of the dead end up crashing it...
Feb 23rd: Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl: A new style cyberpunk book, focusing on advanced biocrafting rather than cybernetics and computer networks. Still has the somewhat nihilistic near future setting. Set in Thailand in a world where rogue genecrafted plagues have decimated much of the world's food supplies. And in Bangkok the stories of a corporate spy, an abandoned sex toy clone and a soldier are going to intersect in an explosive way...
Feb 24th: Lansdale - A Fine Dark Line: In 1958 Stanley is on the border of childhood and teen-dom. And after finding a buried box of love letters he's drawn into attempting to find out what happened that led to the death of two young women years earlier...
Feb 26th: Joe Schreiber - Death Troopers: Zombies. In a prison. In space. Specifically the Star Wars universe, just prior to A New Hope...
Feb 28th: Greg Costikyan - By the Sword: Rereading Costikyan's take on barbarian heroes, dragon slaying and princess rescuing made for a quick and fun book to end the month on...
Total books: 15
Feb 2nd: Michael Chabon - The Final Solution: A short book about an elderly Sherlock Holmes, who decides to emerge from his retirement to help a mute Jewish boy and WWII refugee find his stolen parrot...
Feb 3rd: Diane Duane - A Wizard Alone: One of Duane's Young Wizards books. With Nita and her family still grieving from the loss of her mother, Kit seems to be on his own in trying to help a new Wizard survive his Trial...
Feb 5th: Tom Holt - Barking: I'd say this is now my favorite Tom Holt book and my second-favorite book about werewolves...
Feb 7th: Joe Lansdale - Mad Dog Summer: A collection of short fiction by Lansdale. General fiction, steampunk westerns and pulp parody...
Feb 8th: P.N. Elrod - Dark Road Rising: The most recent Jack Fleming book. With Fleming struggling to repair the rifts in his friendships from the last books descent into despair. And coping with fellow vampire and reluctant gangster "Whitey" Kroun. The book splits the story's perspective between the two...
Feb 11th: Lois McMaster Bujold - The Hallowed Hunt: Set in Bujold's "Curse of Chalion" world, Lady Ijada is a minor noblewoman who kills a crown prince in self defense. And Lord Ingrey kin Wolfcliff has to find a way to keep her alive in spite of politics and the strange and fell magics circling the whole event...
Feb 13th: Stephen King (Bachman) - Blaze: A "lost" Richard Bachman story that King polished up and released. About a simple-minded petty crook who attempts to carry out a kidnapping even after his partner, the brains of their set, is killed...
Feb 15th: Lansdale - The Two Bear Mambo: After a hundred or so pages I realized I really didn't want to read about Hap and Leonard dealing with racist morons in a small Texas town while looking for a missing woman. So I skipped to the last couple chapters where God punishes the town for being full of asshole rednecks...
Feb 16th: Emma Bull - Territory: I gave away my first copy of this occult Western at Christmas, so I decided to reread it after picking up a new copy. Bull's story adds dark and secret magics to the famed Tombstone story of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday...
Feb 21st: C.E. Murphy - Walking Dead: Police detective Joanne Walker has grown more confidant in both her job and her calling as a shaman. Enough that she's trying to date and even helping throw a big Halloween party. Of course malevolent spirits of the dead end up crashing it...
Feb 23rd: Paolo Bacigalupi - The Windup Girl: A new style cyberpunk book, focusing on advanced biocrafting rather than cybernetics and computer networks. Still has the somewhat nihilistic near future setting. Set in Thailand in a world where rogue genecrafted plagues have decimated much of the world's food supplies. And in Bangkok the stories of a corporate spy, an abandoned sex toy clone and a soldier are going to intersect in an explosive way...
Feb 24th: Lansdale - A Fine Dark Line: In 1958 Stanley is on the border of childhood and teen-dom. And after finding a buried box of love letters he's drawn into attempting to find out what happened that led to the death of two young women years earlier...
Feb 26th: Joe Schreiber - Death Troopers: Zombies. In a prison. In space. Specifically the Star Wars universe, just prior to A New Hope...
Feb 28th: Greg Costikyan - By the Sword: Rereading Costikyan's take on barbarian heroes, dragon slaying and princess rescuing made for a quick and fun book to end the month on...
Total books: 15
