Eleven books this time, three of them purchases (including a limited-edition) and eight review copies.
Top: Laura Restrepo, Olor a rosas invisibles/The Scent of Invisible Roses (Bilingual tale of adultry that is poignant rather than condemnatory. Restrepo wrote a great little tale here); Lisa Rogak, Haunted Life: The Life and Times of Stephen King (upcoming biography of King's life. Ought to be interesting); Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, and Thomas E. Sniegoski, Mean Streets (four novellas by four leading urban fantasy writers - if I dare to still use that term after this past week, that is - set in their own respective universes. Will read in the near future, as this comes out in January); Barb and J.C. Hendee, In Shade and Shadow (part of an ongoing series; uncertain when I'll read it); Matthew Stover, Star Wars: Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor (I like Stover's work a lot and will read this either this weekend or early next week).
Top: Toby Bishop, Airs of Night and Sea (part of an ongoing series; uncertain if I'll read it); Paul S. Kemp, Shadowbred (Yes, it's a Forgotten Realms novel. Yes, I will be reading it within the next few days. Yes, I'm curious about all the praise I've heard about Kemp's work. And yes, me reading this might turn on a certain reader stalking me... ;)); Joshua Palmatier, The Vacant Throne (conclusion to a trilogy, uncertain if I'll read it); Simon R. Green, Just Another Judgement Day: A Novel of the Nightside (urban fantasy/crime novel from the sounds of it; might read later); Charles Stross, The Jennifer Morgue (I'm hesitant to try another Stross novel, but I might with this one. We'll see...).
Oh, and this new, weird book arrived in the mail. I think it has to do with mushrooms growing from someone's head. Name of the book is Shriek: An Afterword and it's signed by some guy named Jeff VanderMeer. I wonder if he's a meerkat fancier with that last name... ;)
Being too lazy to check your archives, what past problem did you have with Stross?
ReplyDeleteI got all the Penguin stuff you got, which will go up in tomorrow's post...with a poll!
BTW, I snagged an ARC of Bret Hart's autobiography a while back, but I just haven't managed to read it.
The main problem I had was with his prose, which was so pedestrian at times that I lost interest with the plot. I don't think I wrote a full entry about any of his novels, though. Perhaps in the future.
ReplyDeleteLucky you to have that ARC! I'd be reading that one right now. I wonder if I ought to have a Five Moves of (Reviewing) Doom element here...
Stross's Bob Howard novels are his best work, I think (I'm love / dislike on the Merchant Princes), but the rest of his stuff is almost unreadable for me.
ReplyDeleteHopefully Bret's autobio is a good read. I've been meaning to snag a copy of Chris Jericho's but keep getting distracted by shinier things.
Joe,
ReplyDeleteYou're a wrestling fan as well? Sweet! :D I need to get that one sometime as well, because Jericho is one of the very few WWE wrestlers I care to follow at this time. Will keep your comments about Stross in mind whenever I think about reading this tome.
Jericho has been the top guy in wrestling since he came back, and even more so since the full heel turn.
ReplyDeleteI think you've unofficially got a Five Moves of (Reviewing) Doom, have you read your own blog in the past couple of weeks?
I do? Maybe for commentaries, but I don't think I've written more than 1-2 reviews in that span. Might have to vary it up a bit, come and think of it. ¿Quizás escriba una reseña en español? ;)
ReplyDelete¿Quizás escriba una reseña en español?
ReplyDeleteAside from Lucha Libre, No habla espanol.
Pobrecito Rob! :P All I said is perhaps I shall write a review in Spanish. Ya know, to vary up my Five Moves of (Reviewing) Doom! ;)
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