leahbobet | Book reports I haven't written.

Tonight, between finishing one set of revisions, critiquing towards someone else's set of revisions, and Ideomancer work, I will not get to play with Saturnalia.

But, y'know. I have been reading. I haven't been book reporting, but I've been reading.

#1 -- Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
#2 -- Ekaterina Sedia, Locomotive to Crimea (in draft)
#3 -- Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
#4 -- Chris Coen, Kith and Kin (in draft)
#5 -- Nicholas Christopher, The Bestiary
#6 -- K.J. Parker, Shadow
#7 -- Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman, The Fall of the Kings
#8 -- John M. Ford, The Last Hot Time
Not-#9 -- Helen Oyeyemi, The Icarus Girl
#9 -- Peter S. Beagle, The Innkeeper's Song
#10 -- Claudia Dey, Stunt
#11 -- Sean Stewart, Clouds End
#12 -- Patricia C. Wrede, Searching for Dragons
#13 -- Patricia C. Wrede, Calling on Dragons
#14 -- Madeleine L'Engle, Troubling a Star
#15 -- Scott O'Dell, Sing Down the Moon
#16 -- Patricia C. Wrede, Talking to Dragons
REREAD -- Patricia C. Wrede, Dealing With Dragons
#17 -- Sean Stewart, The Night Watch
REREAD -- Madeleine L'Engle, Dragons in the Waters
#18 -- Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
#19 -- Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
#20 -- John M. Ford, The Dragon Waiting
#21 -- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
#22 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Brothers in Arms
#23 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Mirror Dance
#24 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Komarr
#25 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign
REREAD -- Michael Stackpole, Once a Hero
#26 -- Robert Graves, Goodbye to All That
#27 -- Carrie Vaughn, Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand
#28 -- D.J. Taylor, Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age
#29 -- Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Raises Hell
#30 -- Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
#31 -- Mike Carey, Thicker Than Water
#32 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Falling Free
#33 -- Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity
#34 -- Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge, eds., Letters from a Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends
#35 -- Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Not-#36 -- Samantha Henderson, Heaven's Bones
#36 -- Connie Willis, Remake
#37 -- Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
#38 -- Robert Charles Wilson, Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America

#39 -- William Gibson, Pattern Recognition
#40 -- Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection
#41 -- Lisa Mantchev, Eyes Like Stars
#42 -- China Mieville, The City & the City (in progress)

I'm cutting these four most recent ones out for a reason. This is not to comment in any way on the stuff that comes before it, but these four books were and are freaking awesome. And I felt like I wanted to recognize that, since it's been a while since I've had a really good streak of books; books that were written for me, my kind of reader, that hit me in all the good places and made me think and chase down bits of thematics and feel smart when I caught them in my little butterfly net.

So. Recommended, in full, all four.