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March '11 Book List
Apr. 5th, 2011 07:12 pmA lot more use of the Kindle this month. Starting with Jim Hines' "Jig the Goblin" series. Which are funny fantasy rpg adventure books told from the point of view of the monsters. Adventurers are tools mostly. Finished Goblin Quest on the 1st, Goblin Hero on the 2nd and Goblin War on the 5th. Also read Goblin Tales an anthology of mostly Jig-based short fiction on the 21st on the Kindle...
On the 6th I reread James Alan Gardner's Trapped about life on a closed off Earth. Where nano-machinery allows some to mimic mystical and psychic powers. And a group of teachers who have to go on a quest to save the world...
On the 8th finished both Steam Powered an anthology of lesbian-themed steampunk stories as well as Grantville Gazette XXXIV. the latest Ring of Fire semi-pro anthology...
After that I checked out Patrick Rothfus' the Name of the Wind on the 9th and the Wise Man's Fear on the 12th. Rothfuss has got a lot of buzz as one of the new up and comers in fantasy. Not undeservedly so I have to say. His books are some of the sharpest new takes in fantasy and well worth reading...
Finished One of Our Thursdays is Missing on the 15th, the newest from Jasper Fforde. This volume follows along with the fiction-within-a-fiction Thursday who was to step into the shoes of the "real" Thursday and stop a plot both within and without Fiction...
Another new name in fantasy is Peter Brett, who's 2nd book the Desert Spear I finished on the 17th. I think the most impressive thing about this series is that Brett makes me like one of the leads even though I hate everything about dude's culture...
On the 18th finished Simon R. Green's the Spy Who Haunted Me. An Eddie Drood book about a supernatural mystery scavenger hunt that guest stars Walker from the Nightside series...
Re-read a big swathe of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books in March. Starting with Mirror Dance on the 19th. Which I picked up because I got it confused with Brothers in Arms, the one book in the series I hadn't read. Luckily the roommate had picked it up so I finished it on the 20th. Then Memory on the 25th, Komarr on the 27th, Diplomatic Immunity on the 28th and the Borders of Infinity and Cryoburn on the 29th. Those drabbles that end the last are still giant gut-punches...
More Kindle with Adrian Tchaikovsky's the Scarab Path and the Sea Watch. While I've really liked Rothfuss and Brett, I'd say that Tchaikovsky's "Shadows of the Apt" series is my favorite "new" discovery. The Scarab Path takes newly inApt Che to a pseudo-Cairo city of beetle-kinden alongside Imperial Consort Thalric. The Sea Watch introduces the world of the Sea-kinden...
Finished another of friend Joe Selby's books, Jehovah's Hit List on the 28th. This one is set in a post-civilization collapse world. Featuring an enclosed city of violent gangs that make up the remnants of the U.S. Stylistically reminded me a little of some of Andrew Vachss similar short fiction...
Got done with the latest Ring of Fire book, Eric Flint's 1636: the Saxon Uprising. Which has the United States of Europe in a low-key civil war between the "modern" Committees of Correspondence and 4th of July party and the co-opted forces of Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenteria and other reactionary nobles following Emperor Gustav's injury at the end of the last book...
And finally ended the month by reading Elizabeth Moon's new Paksworld novel Kings of the North. Again, like the previous Oath of Fealty the focus is mostly split between former mercenary-made-king Kieri Artfiel Phelan, mercenary-made-Duke Dorrin Verrakai and various members of their former company...
Total books: 24
On the 6th I reread James Alan Gardner's Trapped about life on a closed off Earth. Where nano-machinery allows some to mimic mystical and psychic powers. And a group of teachers who have to go on a quest to save the world...
On the 8th finished both Steam Powered an anthology of lesbian-themed steampunk stories as well as Grantville Gazette XXXIV. the latest Ring of Fire semi-pro anthology...
After that I checked out Patrick Rothfus' the Name of the Wind on the 9th and the Wise Man's Fear on the 12th. Rothfuss has got a lot of buzz as one of the new up and comers in fantasy. Not undeservedly so I have to say. His books are some of the sharpest new takes in fantasy and well worth reading...
Finished One of Our Thursdays is Missing on the 15th, the newest from Jasper Fforde. This volume follows along with the fiction-within-a-fiction Thursday who was to step into the shoes of the "real" Thursday and stop a plot both within and without Fiction...
Another new name in fantasy is Peter Brett, who's 2nd book the Desert Spear I finished on the 17th. I think the most impressive thing about this series is that Brett makes me like one of the leads even though I hate everything about dude's culture...
On the 18th finished Simon R. Green's the Spy Who Haunted Me. An Eddie Drood book about a supernatural mystery scavenger hunt that guest stars Walker from the Nightside series...
Re-read a big swathe of Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan books in March. Starting with Mirror Dance on the 19th. Which I picked up because I got it confused with Brothers in Arms, the one book in the series I hadn't read. Luckily the roommate had picked it up so I finished it on the 20th. Then Memory on the 25th, Komarr on the 27th, Diplomatic Immunity on the 28th and the Borders of Infinity and Cryoburn on the 29th. Those drabbles that end the last are still giant gut-punches...
More Kindle with Adrian Tchaikovsky's the Scarab Path and the Sea Watch. While I've really liked Rothfuss and Brett, I'd say that Tchaikovsky's "Shadows of the Apt" series is my favorite "new" discovery. The Scarab Path takes newly inApt Che to a pseudo-Cairo city of beetle-kinden alongside Imperial Consort Thalric. The Sea Watch introduces the world of the Sea-kinden...
Finished another of friend Joe Selby's books, Jehovah's Hit List on the 28th. This one is set in a post-civilization collapse world. Featuring an enclosed city of violent gangs that make up the remnants of the U.S. Stylistically reminded me a little of some of Andrew Vachss similar short fiction...
Got done with the latest Ring of Fire book, Eric Flint's 1636: the Saxon Uprising. Which has the United States of Europe in a low-key civil war between the "modern" Committees of Correspondence and 4th of July party and the co-opted forces of Swedish Chancellor Axel Oxenteria and other reactionary nobles following Emperor Gustav's injury at the end of the last book...
And finally ended the month by reading Elizabeth Moon's new Paksworld novel Kings of the North. Again, like the previous Oath of Fealty the focus is mostly split between former mercenary-made-king Kieri Artfiel Phelan, mercenary-made-Duke Dorrin Verrakai and various members of their former company...
Total books: 24
