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September '12 Book List
Oct. 30th, 2012 08:46 pmStarted the month by rereading David Weber's "Honor Harrington" books. From At Basilisk Station to A Rising Thunder. Including the, then, two Talbott Cluster sub-series books Shadow of Saganami and Storm From the Shadows. Though I didn't reread the two co-written by Eric Flint. The main thing that I get from mass reading of Weber is the ability to just skim past his tendency to infodump. The dozen plus books in the series definitely goes by much quicker that way...
Later in the month also got the newly released Midst Toil and Trouble by Weber, the newest of his "Safehold" books. I was pleased to see one supposedly dead character brought back. Though I was hardly alone amidst Weber fans to guess at it happening...
Numerous anthologies for September as well. Many Bloody Returns and An Apple for the Creature, two more themed urban fantasy collections edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. The pair's anthologies tend to have a higher than average number of enjoyable stories to them. Just below the urban fantasy collections edited by P.N. Elrod. Whose short story collection Lunch Time Reading I also read that month. The short story where vampire Jack Fleming meets Harpo Marx sticks in my memory...
Other collections include the 43rd volume of the Grantville Gazette. Which if nothing else may push the number of total gay characters used in the "Ring of Fire" books and short stories up into numbers needing two hands to count. And lastly a collection of Jim Hines' short pieces, Sister of the Hedge. Two of the stories from that are basically early character drafts for Talia/Sleeping Beauty from his "Princess" series and the ass-kicking dryad from Libriomancer...
Two Ravens & One Crow is a novella from Kevin Hearne that serves as a bridging book dealing with the fall-out from Hammered and the set-up for Trapped of his "Iron Druid" series...
D.B. Jackson was a new one for me. With his Thieftaker being a urban fantasy set in Pre-Revolutionary America. Interesting blend of magic and real historical figures...
Other new urban fantasy from Mike Shevdon's "Fayre" with Strangeness & Charm and Seanan McGuire's "Octobor Daye" with Ashes of Honor. Both share having plots centered around half-breed daughters trying to master newly discovered powers while dangerous people try to take advantage of them...
From the e-author set I decided to check out Ian Thomas Healy. First with a set of free stories, Graceful Blur about a speedster hero looking to set a new land speed record, the Scent of Rose Petals which has a normal person remembering a love affair with a super-heroine and the Mighty Peculiar Incident at Muddy Creek a time-travel/western story about a train robbery. I enjoyed those so I picked up his Just Cause. A good supers book, though it doesn't have much really unique to it...
Hidden Cities is the third book of Daniel Fox's pseudo-China fantasy series. Much of the book is the various players from the first two books re-maneuvering and re-aligning themselves...
Finally got around to Elmore Leonard Raylan, which is basically a sequel to the books the show Justified was adapted from. Which makes it fitting that it feels like a mashed together adaptation of the 2nd season...
Robin Maxwell's Jane: the Woman Who Loved Tarzan makes me wish she'd follow-up with a Dejah Thoris book...
And finally Dodger the latest from Terry Pratchett. Which feels like a Dickens/Discworld mash-up without actually being set in the Discworld. Which isn't to surprising given that several prominent Ankh-Morpokh characters are loosely based around historical Victorian Londoners used in the novel...
Total books: 31
Later in the month also got the newly released Midst Toil and Trouble by Weber, the newest of his "Safehold" books. I was pleased to see one supposedly dead character brought back. Though I was hardly alone amidst Weber fans to guess at it happening...
Numerous anthologies for September as well. Many Bloody Returns and An Apple for the Creature, two more themed urban fantasy collections edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner. The pair's anthologies tend to have a higher than average number of enjoyable stories to them. Just below the urban fantasy collections edited by P.N. Elrod. Whose short story collection Lunch Time Reading I also read that month. The short story where vampire Jack Fleming meets Harpo Marx sticks in my memory...
Other collections include the 43rd volume of the Grantville Gazette. Which if nothing else may push the number of total gay characters used in the "Ring of Fire" books and short stories up into numbers needing two hands to count. And lastly a collection of Jim Hines' short pieces, Sister of the Hedge. Two of the stories from that are basically early character drafts for Talia/Sleeping Beauty from his "Princess" series and the ass-kicking dryad from Libriomancer...
Two Ravens & One Crow is a novella from Kevin Hearne that serves as a bridging book dealing with the fall-out from Hammered and the set-up for Trapped of his "Iron Druid" series...
D.B. Jackson was a new one for me. With his Thieftaker being a urban fantasy set in Pre-Revolutionary America. Interesting blend of magic and real historical figures...
Other new urban fantasy from Mike Shevdon's "Fayre" with Strangeness & Charm and Seanan McGuire's "Octobor Daye" with Ashes of Honor. Both share having plots centered around half-breed daughters trying to master newly discovered powers while dangerous people try to take advantage of them...
From the e-author set I decided to check out Ian Thomas Healy. First with a set of free stories, Graceful Blur about a speedster hero looking to set a new land speed record, the Scent of Rose Petals which has a normal person remembering a love affair with a super-heroine and the Mighty Peculiar Incident at Muddy Creek a time-travel/western story about a train robbery. I enjoyed those so I picked up his Just Cause. A good supers book, though it doesn't have much really unique to it...
Hidden Cities is the third book of Daniel Fox's pseudo-China fantasy series. Much of the book is the various players from the first two books re-maneuvering and re-aligning themselves...
Finally got around to Elmore Leonard Raylan, which is basically a sequel to the books the show Justified was adapted from. Which makes it fitting that it feels like a mashed together adaptation of the 2nd season...
Robin Maxwell's Jane: the Woman Who Loved Tarzan makes me wish she'd follow-up with a Dejah Thoris book...
And finally Dodger the latest from Terry Pratchett. Which feels like a Dickens/Discworld mash-up without actually being set in the Discworld. Which isn't to surprising given that several prominent Ankh-Morpokh characters are loosely based around historical Victorian Londoners used in the novel...
Total books: 31
