Ok, here's the list of what I've read recently:
6-26 Conjunctions:39 : This is a great collection of short stories by people like Jonathan Carroll, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, etc. I believe only one wasn't new to me.
6-30 Pyramids by Terry Pratchett : Great of course, since it was Pratchett. I've obviously not been reading them in any particular order. This is one of the earliest ones, but I'd never found it used so hadn't read it yet.
6-30 Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold : I've been spacing out my reading of Bujold's books so that I don't run out and have to await impatiently the next one. Unfortunately every once and awhile I accidently read them out of order so don't catch all the references. (In this case I accidently skipped Brothers in Arms). Ah well. I've now gotten my dad started (at the beginning) of the Vorkosigan novels.
7-1 Falling Sideways by Tom Holt : Tom Holt's books are good for surgery-recovery semi-drugged reading. They're light enough and weird enough to be fun but not terribly mentally taxing. Why is it all of the humorous fantasy authors are British?
7-4 A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin : Book 2 of a great fantasy series. They're too big to want to read back to back, but it did take me awhile to remember what all had happened in the first novel and who all of the characters are. Book 3 is on my shelf waiting for me to tackle it, but book 4 hasn't been published yet so I should probably wait awhile.
7-5 Neither Here Nor There by Bill Bryson : Bryson does Europe.
7-6 The Complete Maus by Art Siegelman : Wow. A personal story of the Holocaust done as a comic book. Apparently it won the Pulitzer prize. I can see why.
7-7 Tourists by Lisa Goldstein : This was my first Lisa Goldstein novel. It's a fantasy not quite like any I'd ever read. It would fall in the category of "urban fantasy" since it takes place in a modern (if fictional) city . The fantastic elements come in with the weird things happening in that city, not any sort of explicit "magic". I've since picked up a few more of her books.
7-7 Rubicon Beach by Steve Erickson : My first Steve Erickson novel. I'm not quite sure I got it. Pieces of it I really liked, but taken overall I think I'd need to reread to see quite what he was getting at.
7-9 Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk : After disliking Survivor, I found myself a bit surprised to want to buy another Palahniuk book, but this one is all about Portland so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised. It's part autobiography, part alternative traveler's guide to the city. Our outdoor lindy dance on Sundays was actually mentioned. There's a few things I'm going to need to go check out around town now.
7-9 Underground by Haruki Murakami : I didn't like this as well as his novels, but it's an interesting read. He interviewed a lot of the survivors (and families of victims) of Aum's sarin gas attack on the tokyo subway and then some Aum members.
7-10 Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick : time travel meets dinosaurs meets aliens. A fun read.

posted by kristin at 12:04 PM