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[book log]
Mar. 29th, 2005 09:11 pmI paused on reading for a little while, but paused on recording what I've read for longer. I think I've lost track of some. Also, I think I'm having trouble translating what's in my head (thoughts and writing and descriptions and all) into words that make sense to other people, so perhaps I just won't say much this time around. These were all good, solid, well-enjoyed books.
17. Mockingbird, by Sean Stewart. (same author as The Night Watch.) Loas and magic and family and writing and life. Good book.
18. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Yeah, I've read it before, but not for quite awhile.
19. A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge. I don't think I had read any of his books before. Read this one on the plane cross-country (back and forth) and in the interstices of time during the visit...an excellent book, and good solid sci-fi escapism for me.
20. A Short, Sharp Shock, Kim Stanley Robinson. Tight, not a long story, but winding. Many things are left unexplained, and that's just fine.
21. Tehanu, Ursula K. LeGuin. I'm fairly sure I read this before, but that was also so long ago that all that was left in my memory was familiarity. I've liked everything of hers that I've read.
Also:
- re-read Strangers in Paradise, which doesn't count because it's already on this year's list once
- keep falling asleep a short bit in to R. Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth which is interesting and all, but kinda weird.
- read half of Jhonen Vasquez's Squee...and then fell asleep under a heavy blanket on the couch wearing too many clothes and had really very disturbing fever-dreams. *shudder*
- re-read bits of Galen Rowell's Vision: The Art of Adventure Photography, which isn't really a book that needs to be read all at once. some neat stories and some truly amazing photography - a gift from my aunt and uncle one recent Christmas.
- read a bunch of a Harper's Magazine that a friend left behind after that last art-day.
That's all I remember, right now.
17. Mockingbird, by Sean Stewart. (same author as The Night Watch.) Loas and magic and family and writing and life. Good book.
18. Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. Yeah, I've read it before, but not for quite awhile.
19. A Fire Upon the Deep, Vernor Vinge. I don't think I had read any of his books before. Read this one on the plane cross-country (back and forth) and in the interstices of time during the visit...an excellent book, and good solid sci-fi escapism for me.
20. A Short, Sharp Shock, Kim Stanley Robinson. Tight, not a long story, but winding. Many things are left unexplained, and that's just fine.
21. Tehanu, Ursula K. LeGuin. I'm fairly sure I read this before, but that was also so long ago that all that was left in my memory was familiarity. I've liked everything of hers that I've read.
Also:
- re-read Strangers in Paradise, which doesn't count because it's already on this year's list once
- keep falling asleep a short bit in to R. Buckminster Fuller's Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth which is interesting and all, but kinda weird.
- read half of Jhonen Vasquez's Squee...and then fell asleep under a heavy blanket on the couch wearing too many clothes and had really very disturbing fever-dreams. *shudder*
- re-read bits of Galen Rowell's Vision: The Art of Adventure Photography, which isn't really a book that needs to be read all at once. some neat stories and some truly amazing photography - a gift from my aunt and uncle one recent Christmas.
- read a bunch of a Harper's Magazine that a friend left behind after that last art-day.
That's all I remember, right now.
