Another month when I managed to read more than usual, not sure how I'm managing to keep up with all this.

#22: The Philosophical Breakfast Club by Laura J. Snyder, which I wrote about at Big Other.

#23: Hull Zero Three by Greg Bear, a very familiar sort of hard sf, there isn't an incident that you won't recognise from somewhere else, but quite ( Read more... )

I won ( Read more... )

Another month when I seemed to get through more books than usual. A fair bit for review this month as well.

#15 Betrayed by Rita Hayworth by Manuel Puig - which prompted this post at Big Other.

#16 Starbound by Joe Haldeman - a perfectly competent piece of heartland sf that reads like a good writer who can't really be bothered to come up with ( Read more... )

to the ever-wonderful brisingamen and may every day be just as happy!

Back to a more usual reading rate this last month, but I still managed the following:

#10 The Anatomy of Utopia by Karoly Pinter, reviewed at SF Site

#11 The Restoration Game by Ken MacLeod, a novel that has one tremendous coup de theatre that comes about three quarters of the way through the novel. But this should have been the start of the ( Read more... )

I am currently reading what may be the most depressing book I have read for a long time, The Thirties by Juliet Gardiner. Depressing not because of what is in there, though the stories about the effects of unemployment and poor housing and so forth are just terrible. No, this is depressing because I could be reading about the present ( Read more... )

Mubarak goes! At last!

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No, this is not a post about Egypt, however much I'd like to devote all my attention to what's happening there, but I've nothing further to add and all I can do is direct everyone to Al Jazeera, which is clearly providing the best coverage ( Read more... )

So I managed 74 books this year, a lot better than usual. And as usual the ones worth reading are in bold. ( (It's behind the cut because it's a long list) )