Easter Book Porn

Seven books for the Thursday-Saturday period, five of them review copies and two purchases. The two purchased books have been read and it is quite fitting, perhaps, that one of them seems to coincide with the current religious holiday.

Left:  Michael Moorcock, Behold the Man (1960s short novel dealing with a time traveler who time travels back to the days before the Crucifixion.  Whereas earlier SF writers like Asimov or Clarke might have played up the contradictions between historical Christianity and the "realities" of 29 AD Palestine, Moorcock's story is much more complex for that.  It is a very powerful story, especially for someone such as myself who does try to observe the holidays); Dino Buzzati, The Tartar Steppe (English translation of the book I featured in Wednesday's Book Porn post.  Read both, loved both.  Great, great book).

Left:  John Marco, Starfinder (new series for Marco.  Uncertain when or if I'll get around to reading this); Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums (graphic novel history of Satrapi's great-uncle, who decides to die in bed one day after his beloved tar is broken.  Moving story and the character interactions, along with Satrapi's illustration style, reminds me favorably of some of Art Spiegelman's best work).




Left:  Devin Monk, Magic in the Blood (sequel to her Magic to the Bone, which I haven't read yet); Diana Pharoah Francis, The Turning Tide (next volume in her Crosspointe series, which I have failed to read so far); S.M. Peters, Ghost Ocean (heard some good things about this author, might investigate further later in the spring or early in summer).