1. Fight Like a Girl edited by Roz Clarke and Joanne Hall(Usual disclaimer applies - this book had the best launch event ever ( Read more... )

61. The Mind in the Cave by David Lewis-WilliamsI've been meaning to read this for years. It was, I think, the first popular book setting out the theory that Upper Paleolithic cave art in Western Europe serves a religious, shamanic purpose. The argument is persuasive. Basically, anatomically modern humans all have basically the same response(s) to ( Read more... )

60. Dead Bad Things by Gary McMahonI picked up an early novel of his about a decade ago, and enjoyed it but never followed up. I found this one lying on the freebie table at BristolCon and nabbed it ( Read more... )

59. The Historical Atlas of the Celtic World by John HaywoodYou might be thinking this sounds a bit basic for me. However, the take-away from my two visits to the Celts exhibition was that any knowledge I had was 20 years out of date. This was on sale at the Edinburgh exhibition and it's full of lovely colour illustrations and interesting maps so I ( Read more... )

58. The Sea-Stone Sword by Joel CornahJoel (creator of The Milliverse, if you do Twitter) is published by the same publisher who publishes Joanne Hall, so I picked this up at the Grimbold Books stall at BristolCon.  It was recommended because I'd run out of Sebastien de Castell and it has "swashbuckling" in the description ( Read more... )

57. Born to Run by Bruce SpringsteenAs I've written about elsewhere, I came to Bruce's music later in life, but am enough of a fan that I wanted to read the autobiography ( Read more... )

56. War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy
I wish I wasn't so far behind with this, or that I took notes or something, because I had a lot more thoughts about this that I can't remember.  This was supposed to be the first of four big projects this year and is the only one that I finished ( Read more... )

55. A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar
I first became aware of Lavie at last year's Nine Worlds and at read The Violent Century this year, which was OK but didn't do a lot for me ( Read more... )

54. Saint's Blood by Sebastien de CastellBook 3 in the Greatcoats series.  I have reviewed the first two recently ( Read more... )

I was less excited about this exhibit but I thought I'd pop in and see it while I was in the area.  I timed it well; I didn't get there till after 4 (though it's late opening day) and it was practicall empty ( Read more... )