January 2012

Stuff I’ve Been Reading: January 2012

Books followed by slightly inane descriptions of them.

1. Making Money by Terry Pratchett. Aloud in the car, sequel to Going Postal.
2. Farthing by Jo Walton. Alternate history mystery by a SFF author!
3. Ha’penny by Jo Walton. Book two, see above.
4. The Lost Gate by Orson Scott Card (20%). Not in the mood.
5. How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu. An existential father-son novel, set mostly in a time machine.
6. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle from The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes edited by Leslie S. Klinger. To gear myself up for the BBC Sherlock, which I have mixed feelings about.
7. Greenwitch by Susan Cooper. The Dark Is Rising sequence book three, leftover from December.
8. The Grey King by Susan Cooper. Book four.
9. Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper. Book five.
10. Half a Crown by Jo Walton. Alternate history mystery book three.
11. River of Darkness by Rennie Airth. Post-WWI police procedural, very well done.
12. The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey. A supposedly iconic mystery by a pseudonymous author of whom I’ve never heard. Detective stuck in bed, solves historical mystery about Richard III.
13. Dune by Frank Herbert. I have a crush on Paul Atreides.
14. Mystery and Manners by Flannery O’Connor. Look! Nonfiction! This book is too quotable to review: you’d do far better just to read it yourself.
15. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert. But I don’t have a crush on this Paul.
16. A Study in Sherlock edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. Sherlock Holmes-inspired short stories.
17. The Blood-Dimmed Tide by Rennie Airth. Ten years later, police procedural book two.

Best Mystery: Hard to say! Either Jo Walton or Rennie Airth. If I had to commit, I might pick Walton, but it’s terribly close.

Best Science Fiction: Dune.

Best Reread: Holmes, naturally.