Books... Update!

[lithera]

Wow. It has been awhile since I did this. I'm really going to miss one or two here, I think. Damn. Ah well.

Also, folks, what do you think - Should I include graphic novels on here or not? They sort of feel like I'm padding the list a bit. Vote?

11 - Captain's Fury - Jim Butcher. (Finished) I'm more invested in this world than I am Dresden's, I think. And that's probably because Dresden's world ends up feeling a little like Anita's and the Alera books are nothing like either one. Good stuff.

12 - Heart of Stone - C E Murphy. Yeah! More Catie books. I read pretty much everything she writes, so it isn't a surprise that I liked this one too. I can't wait to see how the comic book goes. Which reminds me, if you're reading this, I want to chat at you about how you script out pages if you're amicable some time. I am curious.

13 - The Audacity of Hope - Barack Obama There is a lot in this book. A lot of ideas, a lot to think about. It was creepy at first. I agreed with him on everything and that, for whatever reason, is not a good sign. Then toward then end there were a few things where I was less certain. Which is a good thing in a man who I want to be President. There are a lot of reasons I wouldn't be a good one.

14 - House of Cards - C E Murphy. Catie tried to kill me with a character making a comment about The Avengers. Besides, he's much more Spider-Man like there anyway....

15 - Fatal Revenant - Stephen Donaldson Dear Lord, why am I still reading these? Skau, I totally blame you. I want to smack Linden Avery about the head and shoulders with a pipe, she's so... AUGH.

16 - Lost in a Good Book - Jasper Fforde I really like the Thursday Next books. (Thank you Marci for giving me the first one.) They're a bit dry in places but that's part of the charm and wit, really. That and there are a small ton of literary in-jokes in here. There are some where, I can see where they are but I don't really get them and other where I giggle a lot and would have a hard time explaining why - without making people read a lot of other books first. (I still think Jane Eyre was awful stuff, though.)

17 - The Well of Lost Plots - Jasper Fforde This one was much more fun, I think. You get into the lunacy of things and the strangeness of what it would be like to live inside of books. Some of it makes my mind twist about in order to accept it. Which is fabulous.

18 - Small Favor - Jim Butcher I didn't like this one as much as I liked the two previous Dresden books. I'm not entirely sure why. The reading experience on this one was a little disjointed, of course I think it was supposed to be that way for a few reasons. Still very interested in what happens next. Wish it took me more than a day to read these.

19 - Something Rotten - Jasper Fforde (Currently reading) I like this one even better. There is more emotional connection with the characters this time. A little less distance between them and the reader.

On the list for the future: Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell, Dreamsongs: Volumes I and II by George R R Martin, Kim Harrison books once I find the first one that I thinkis in the apartment somewhere, also the Looking Glass Wars.

Comments

[of-the-woods.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, Morn annoys me in his Gap Chronicles too. I guess I just don't like Donaldson's female characters.

I'm re-reading the Steven Erikson Malazan Book of the Fallen books now, though... so dark and epic they make Donaldson's books look like a frolic through a happy Disneyland, so maybe I'm just a masochist :)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

She's so freaking moony about everything. "Oh God, I'm not the hero. I couldn't be the hero. I'm lost without Covenant... Oh no... I'm so sad." Blah, blah, blah, blah. SHUT UP AND DO SOMETHING!

The worst part is she's completely amazing when Covenant isn't around.

Hrmmm. I like dark, usually. I think it might just be Donaldson that drives me so batty.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*laughs out loud* I wasn't *actually* trying to kill you! *laughs more*!

Sure, will chat scripting any time! Snag me on AIM, or email me, whatever's your preference!

[lithera.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I have your AIM name.... I shall have to remedy this.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

cemurphyauthor :)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Well, that's all sorts of obvious.

*chuckles*

Cool. I'll try to grab you some time and we can chat about that and bits and bobs. I still have room in my rooms in San Diego if you need them, for instance.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm basically in a situation right now of waiting to see if I can get a travel grant from the Irish government or whether the feast end of the writerly feast-or-famine paychecks comes in at a big enough chunk of change to let me go to ComicCon. My husband's pretty adamant on me going, considers it to be an important career thing, this year particularly, so hopefully it's going to work out. If it's just me I'll almost certainly be taking you up on that crash space offer.

So, yeah, catch me when you get a chance and we'll talk! Yay! :)

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

I'll try to catch you tonight, maybe. Silly time differences!

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Audacity of Hope is waiting for me to read... I really should get to that, since I don't really have any other books urgently awaiting my attention right now. My bookreading's really come to something of a grinding halt in the last couple of months. I want to fix that, but I'm not sure what to read, fiction-wise. I need to get turned onto some new authors, I think.

I say you should include graphic novels, personally.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Ah, the quest for new authors. I read so fast that it seems like a non-ending quest, really.

You think? They're such quick reads - most of the time. There are a few that slow me down.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Yeah... them being such quick reads is a large reason why I generally don't buy them (not brand new, at least). But they're still being *read*, so they should count, IMO. :)

I have a large number of non-fiction books to read, but I'm kind of picky about what fiction I get into. The last historical fiction novels I picked up were so emphatically bad, I spent more time mocking them on my LJ than I did actually reading them. Never, ever read anything by Wilbur Smith, unless you're doing it to add snarky commentary to entertain others.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

Well, I read non-fiction from time to time. Usually biographies. My last two were on Catherine de Medici and Marie Antoinette.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

I love historical biographies, but with my BRANE ISSUEZ, if a text is too academically dense, I tend to have trouble following along. I was partway through a very interesting though extremely academic book on the archetypes of the Virgin Mary, but haven't gotten back to it in, um, over 2 years.

There are Michael Moorcock books on the shelf here that I haven't touched. They seem quite short, so maybe I'll take a gander and see if I'm into it. Zelazny's The Chronicles of Amber are interesting, even if the descriptions tend to roll on for pages at a time. Now THERE is a series that should be turned into movies. I think it could be visually stunning, and the political maneuvering would be intriguing if done right.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Where as with me and my brain, sometimes in order to clear out my head I have to read something dense and difficult in order to re-order my thinking.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

So between us, we may have something approaching a functional BRANE?

[lithera.livejournal.com]

So it seems, though this should not be all that surprising. *chuckles*

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

True enough :)

*picks Kat's brains* OM NOM NOM NOM....

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Heeeeyyyyy!

I need those!

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

*BURP*

[julzerator.livejournal.com]

I just finished Captain's Fury (why don't those books last longer, really?) and love the series! I wish you had gotten to go to the reading/stand up comedy show of Jim Butcher's. He was hilarious!

[lithera.livejournal.com]

By the time I'd remembered that he was in town, it was too late. I've been something of a space case the past week or two.

[seanb.livejournal.com]

Pokemon!

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yes, yes. Pokemon.

But it works.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

I like to hear what people think of GNs. You could just mention and not number them, since I agree they go awfully fast.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

Hrmmmm. This is a good thought as well. Because I'm certainly not going to list all of the individual issues I read... because I try to save them up and read a few at a time...

[hopeevey.livejournal.com]

I list graphic novels in my Books Read list, but that's me.

[lithera.livejournal.com]

*ponders some more*