April 2011

Stuff I’ve Been Reading: April

I’ve done such a good job reviewing throughout the month!  Titles with reviews are linked; titles without get blurbs.

1. The Man from Hell by Barrie Roberts
2. Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
3. The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
4. Possession by A. S. Byatt
5. Monstrous Regiment by Terry Pratchett
6. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
7. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
8. Ringworld by Larry Niven (60%)
9. The Last Sherlock Holmes Story by Michael Dibdin
10. Asimov’s Science Fiction, June 2011.  If I ever get published in this magazine, I will have Made It as a science fiction writer.
11. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.  We read this book aloud in the car, despite the danger of swerving off the road from laughing so hard.
12. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins.  I didn’t review it because I didn’t want to spoil anything.  All I will say is that I thought it concluded things effectively and I enjoyed it quite a lot.
13. Waters Luminous and Deep by Meredith Ann Pierce
14. Contact by Carl Sagan.  A slow-moving, strongly science-based story of radio astronomers who pick up an unmistakably intelligent transmission from Vega, this novel was written by an astronomer about SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

What have you been reading recently?