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June 2010 Book List
Jul. 3rd, 2010 05:14 pmJune 2nd: Janet Evanovich - One for the Money, Two for the Dough and Three to Get Deadly
June 3rd: Evanovich - Four to Score and High Five
June 4th: Evanovich - Hot Six, Seven Up and Hard Eight
June 5th: Evanovich - To the Nines, Ten Big Ones and Eleven on Top
June 6th: Evanovich - Twelve Sharp, Lean Mean Thirteen, Fearless Fourteen and Finger-Lickin' Fifteen: Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books are the literary equivalent of snack food for me. Quick and fun as evidenced by my being able to reread the entire series in preparation for the latest book in five days. The basic set-up of the series is that Stephanie Plum, a fairly average girl from Trenton, NJ gets laid off from her lingerie buying job. So she blackmails her cousin into letting her work as a skip-tracer or bounty hunter. A job at which she is, for the most part, humorously bad. The series eventually settles into a pattern of Steph hunting down mostly goofball bounties, bouncing between the two love interests (cop Joe Morrelli and fellow bounty hunter Ranger) and dealing with the rest of the oddball cast. The support cast, like Steph's feisty grandmother or ex-hooker turned bounty hunter-assistant Lulu, are a large part of what makes the stories so enjoyable. Plus I love how Steph never quits, no matter how disastrous things get...
June 8th: Raymond Feist/Jenny Wurts - Daughter of the Empire
June 9th: Feist/Wurts - Servant of the Empire
June 11th: Fest/Wurts - Mistress of the Empire: Feist collaborates with Wurts to retell the Rift War from the invading Tsurani perspective. Primarily Mara of the Acoma. Mara is just about to take religious vows and enter seclusion when she has to become head of her House after her father and brother are killed in the war as part of a political maneuver by their House's primary enemy the Minawabi. The three books cover a period of about 30 years and showcase both Mara's ability to master politics and war and how she uses her own personal growth as a person to force the Empire to evolve as well...
June 14th: K.D. Wentworth (ed) - Writers of the Future XXV: An anthology series started by L. Ron Hubbard meant to showcase up and coming talent in science-fiction...
June 16th: Harry Turtledove - In At the Death: The finale to Turtledove's massive alt history series about a divided U.S.A. Covers the end of the second World War and the start of the nuclear age. Both here and his "Aliens invade during WW2" series once atomics are developed they get used a LOT more often than real history...
June 18th: Robert Parker - Promised Land: Still the earliest Spenser novel I own. Has Spenser hired to find a runaway wife, which he does. Mostly. Also has the beginning of the long-term Susan/Spenser relationship and the friendship with Hawk...
June 20th: Parker - Pastime: The most important part of this Spenser novel to me is that it introduces Spenser and Susan's dog Pearl. Also it has Spenser helping a younger friend find his mother and revealing a good bit of his childhood past at the same time...
June 22nd: Steven Brust - Taltos and Phoenix: Vlad Taltos, human in the empire ofelvesDraegarans. Master assassin and crime boss. Which doesn't really convey how enjoyable Brust's characters are or the way he experiments with perspective and non-linear story-telling...
June 23rd: Terry Pratchett - Pyramids: Breaking up rereading about one assassin to read about an entirely different one. If I were to ever try to run GURPS: Discworld I think Pteppic and You Bastard would make for ideal NPCs to use. Not really connected to any of the ongoing sub-series but still able to showcase the flavor of the setting...
June 25th: Brust - Jhereg
June 26th: Brust - Yendi and Teckla
June 27th: Kim Harrison - Black Magic Sanction: I think this will be the last book I buy for "The Hollows" series. I still like Rachel Morgan a lot as well as much of her supporting cast. But I just don't like the setting at all. The bland "Demons" and Elves and how even werewolves are entrenched in bureaucracy and red tape...
June 28th: Brust - Dragon
June 29th: Brust - Issola and Orca
June 30th: Evanovich - Sizzling Sixteen: In the latest Stephanie Plum's boss and cousin Vinnie has got himself snatched due to his massive gambling debts. So Steph, Lulu and office assistant Connie have to get him back so they can keep him alive long enough to raise the money to cover his debts and to keep their jobs...
Total Books: 33
June 3rd: Evanovich - Four to Score and High Five
June 4th: Evanovich - Hot Six, Seven Up and Hard Eight
June 5th: Evanovich - To the Nines, Ten Big Ones and Eleven on Top
June 6th: Evanovich - Twelve Sharp, Lean Mean Thirteen, Fearless Fourteen and Finger-Lickin' Fifteen: Evanovich's Stephanie Plum books are the literary equivalent of snack food for me. Quick and fun as evidenced by my being able to reread the entire series in preparation for the latest book in five days. The basic set-up of the series is that Stephanie Plum, a fairly average girl from Trenton, NJ gets laid off from her lingerie buying job. So she blackmails her cousin into letting her work as a skip-tracer or bounty hunter. A job at which she is, for the most part, humorously bad. The series eventually settles into a pattern of Steph hunting down mostly goofball bounties, bouncing between the two love interests (cop Joe Morrelli and fellow bounty hunter Ranger) and dealing with the rest of the oddball cast. The support cast, like Steph's feisty grandmother or ex-hooker turned bounty hunter-assistant Lulu, are a large part of what makes the stories so enjoyable. Plus I love how Steph never quits, no matter how disastrous things get...
June 8th: Raymond Feist/Jenny Wurts - Daughter of the Empire
June 9th: Feist/Wurts - Servant of the Empire
June 11th: Fest/Wurts - Mistress of the Empire: Feist collaborates with Wurts to retell the Rift War from the invading Tsurani perspective. Primarily Mara of the Acoma. Mara is just about to take religious vows and enter seclusion when she has to become head of her House after her father and brother are killed in the war as part of a political maneuver by their House's primary enemy the Minawabi. The three books cover a period of about 30 years and showcase both Mara's ability to master politics and war and how she uses her own personal growth as a person to force the Empire to evolve as well...
June 14th: K.D. Wentworth (ed) - Writers of the Future XXV: An anthology series started by L. Ron Hubbard meant to showcase up and coming talent in science-fiction...
June 16th: Harry Turtledove - In At the Death: The finale to Turtledove's massive alt history series about a divided U.S.A. Covers the end of the second World War and the start of the nuclear age. Both here and his "Aliens invade during WW2" series once atomics are developed they get used a LOT more often than real history...
June 18th: Robert Parker - Promised Land: Still the earliest Spenser novel I own. Has Spenser hired to find a runaway wife, which he does. Mostly. Also has the beginning of the long-term Susan/Spenser relationship and the friendship with Hawk...
June 20th: Parker - Pastime: The most important part of this Spenser novel to me is that it introduces Spenser and Susan's dog Pearl. Also it has Spenser helping a younger friend find his mother and revealing a good bit of his childhood past at the same time...
June 22nd: Steven Brust - Taltos and Phoenix: Vlad Taltos, human in the empire of
June 23rd: Terry Pratchett - Pyramids: Breaking up rereading about one assassin to read about an entirely different one. If I were to ever try to run GURPS: Discworld I think Pteppic and You Bastard would make for ideal NPCs to use. Not really connected to any of the ongoing sub-series but still able to showcase the flavor of the setting...
June 25th: Brust - Jhereg
June 26th: Brust - Yendi and Teckla
June 27th: Kim Harrison - Black Magic Sanction: I think this will be the last book I buy for "The Hollows" series. I still like Rachel Morgan a lot as well as much of her supporting cast. But I just don't like the setting at all. The bland "Demons" and Elves and how even werewolves are entrenched in bureaucracy and red tape...
June 28th: Brust - Dragon
June 29th: Brust - Issola and Orca
June 30th: Evanovich - Sizzling Sixteen: In the latest Stephanie Plum's boss and cousin Vinnie has got himself snatched due to his massive gambling debts. So Steph, Lulu and office assistant Connie have to get him back so they can keep him alive long enough to raise the money to cover his debts and to keep their jobs...
Total Books: 33
