Bookkeeping, before I forget them all

[stillsostrange]

1. Black Magic Woman - Justin Gustainis
2. Murder of Angels - Caitlin R. Kiernan (reread)
3. Above - cristalia (in draft)
4. Saffron and Brimstone - Elizabeth Hand
5. Another Life - Andrew Vachss
6. The Last Hot Time - John M. Ford
7. The Queen's Bastard - C. E. Murphy
8. The Bone Garden - Tess Gerritsen
9. Daughter of the Game - Tracy Grant
10. Those Who Hunt the Night - Barbara Hambly (reread)
11. The Surgeon - Tess Gerritsen
12. Palimpsest - Catherynne M. Valente
13. Cable & Deadpool #1 - Fabian Nicieza
14. Deadpool Classic #2 - Joe Kelly
15. Cable & Deadpool #3 - Fabian Nicieza
16. New Amsterdam - Elizabeth Bear (reread)
17. Cable & Deadpool #2 - Fabian Nicieza
18. Deadpool Classic #1 - Fabian Nicieza et al
19. Cable & Deadpool #3 - Fabian Nicieza
20. Lonely Werewolf Girl - Martin Millar
21. The House With a Clock In Its Walls - John Bellairs
22. The Figure In The Shadows - John Bellairs
23. Beneath a Silent Moon - Tracy Grant
24. Living With Ghosts - Kari Sperring
25. Street Magic - Caitlin Kittredge
26. The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
27. Green - Jay Lake
28. What We Did To Save The Kingdom - mrissa (in draft)


29. Norse Code - Greg van Eekhout

I was firmly against this book due to my hatred of pun titles, but matociquala talked it up, so I caved. And it is in fact smart, funny, grim, and adorable. These are not Marvel's Aesir. Not entirely as crunchy as I would like, but it washed the nasty taste of Giants in the Frost out of my mouth at long last. And seriously, best wolves ever.

30. The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan

I sell so many of these at work I thought I'd check it out. It's okay, but I am nowhere as charmed as I was by Harry Potter. Cute ideas, but the characters and the worldbuilding don't grab me. And while I like Percy's mom, I'm getting sick of the trope of placing children in abusive homes to "protect" them.

31. The Shadow Pavilion - Liz Williams

Not my favorite of the series, especially after Precious Dragon made me cry, but still lovely.

32. A Free Man of Color - Barbara Hambly (reread)

I loff these books so. LOFF.

I feel like I'm forgetting something, but that may be because I'm in the middle of four other books right now and they all start to blur.

Comments

[britmandelo.livejournal.com]

#30 That is exactly the reason I bought a copy, but I haven't actually managed to read it yet.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Yah, I got it from the library and read a bit and said, "NO, I am SO SICK of this," and returned it to the library unread for that very reason.

[glinda-w.livejournal.com]

(Hambly's Benjamin January books):

Oh dear ghods yes. Loff, loff, loff. To the point that I've been known to try to find the money to buy them in hardcover when they come out - not too many authors I do that for anymore, 'cause hey, fixed income, yadda yadda, and if I wait for paperbacks I can buy more books than if I buy hardcover or tpb. But some books? Gotta have, NOW.

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Yup. Though I don't think any of the later ones were quite as good as the first. My only other complaint is that I find it a bit hard to believe in one character being a hypertalented doctor AND musician as well as unusually strong and generally well-educated. But I think she may have had to do that to keep him from being too beaten-down for a modern reader to identify with, and I love how those things sometimes work against him. I *don't* love but do enormously repect how unafraid Hambly is of showing the absolute worst the times had to offer (and including endnotes prove their historically accurate - it was either the second book or the third that I found absolutely searing, nightmare-inducing, all because of something she took from the historical record.

And mostly I love the deep-stewed sheer flavor of the New Orleans of a very particular time when cultures were colliding.

[csinman.livejournal.com]

I just finished Norse Code too, about two days ago.

I want a pet Sleipnir now! SO BADLY!

[ex-kaz-maho.livejournal.com]

I'm reading The Lightning Thief right now. Am inclined to agree. It's certainly good fun, but not feeling the magic quite yet.