Books read in April

[martin_wisse]

Another month gone by means another list of books read. Seventeen in total this time, bringing the grand total for the first third of the year up to fifty exactly. I found this to be a little bit too much reading, as it left little time to digest the books properly. Links to proper reviews will be added when they're put up on the booklog.

Madame

Comments

[bellinghman]

The Voyage of the Sable Keech -- Neal Asher
The first Asher novel I've read, not the best starting point as it needs a lot of backstory knowledge to make sense out of

I could have told you that. In fact, I think I did say that.

[vatine]

I just said "second Spatterjay novel", at least when I re-read it.

[martin_wisse]

Yes, but all I remembered in the library was that you seemed to like this, not anything useful.

In the end it didn't matter that much; I've often read books out of sequence and the story itself was absorbing enough to overcome the handicap of not having read the first book.

[bellinghman]

I certainly liked it enough that I went off, found other Asher, and am now buying him in hardback to get the books a bit earlier.

(As it happens, he was one of a bunch of writers that jemck was with that came along to Heffers in Cambridge nearly two years ago. This was the book that was out on a stack. So I bought it. Along with Mike Carey, he was one of the finds of the evening.)