all the cool kids are doing it... [book log 2005]

1. The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver. Lots of suspense and gory description.
2. A Hat Full of Sky, Terry Pratchett.
3. Exile's Valor, Mercedes Lackey.
4. Midnight Days, Neil Gaiman.
5. The entirety of Transmetropolitan, Warren Ellis. I will absorb this into my brain, because it is full of snarky gonzo goodness. (Thank you, violin!)
6. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver. She also wrote The Poisonwood Bible, and they're both strong, excellent books.
7. The Onion Girl, Charles deLint.
8. Persepolis / The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi. "...memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution", as a black-and-white comic. Different, very good, powerful. ("Comic" becomes really not the right word for this sort of book.)

I bought On Food and Cooking, finally. Good stuff. Also picked up the two Death mini-books. I used to own both of them, got them both signed, gave one away, and sometime over the last couple of years the other one (signed to me and all) has disappeared. So I'm sorry to have lost it, but now I at least have new copies. Hurrah for gift-certificates!