Bookkeeping

[stillsostrange]

1. Black Magic Woman - Justin Gustainis
2. Murder of Angels - Caitlin R. Kiernan (reread)
3. Above - [info]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 - [info]mrissa (in draft)
29. Norse Code - Greg van Eekhout
30. The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan
31. The Shadow Pavilion - Liz Williams
32. A Free Man of Color - Barbara Hambly (reread)


33. The Engine's Child - Holly Phillips

A gorgeous, vivid, evocative book, with beautiful description and setting. There is perhaps not enough plot to carry all the gorgeous setting (or the existing plot isn't developed enough), but I don't really care.

34. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms - N.K. Jemisin (ARC)

I got a bit of whiplash going from The Engine's Child to this. Kingdoms has plenty going on, and Jemisin's prose is clean and spare. More spare than I prefer, since I'm a stop-and-roll-in-it kind of girl and there was so much cool stuff and characters that I wanted to see more of, but it was snappy and fun and I like Yeine and love Nahadoth. I'm looking forward to The Broken Kingdoms

35. Fever Season - Barbara Hambly (reread)

As always, I'm in awe of the grace with which Hambly juggles ten million plot threads while still giving the best setting in the business. This is also the squickiest of the January books for me.

Comments

[libris-leonis.livejournal.com]

I loved Engine's Child - and honestly, its such a vivid and interesting world I could just sit there and relax to read it, let the plot work itself out. The setting was beautiful and grim and everything a setting needs to be...

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I adored The Engine's Child. And got to pimp it to a random stranger in a con dealer's room, which was satisfying.