Stuff I’ve Been Reading: June 2013
- Wool by Howey, Hugh
- The Age of Miracles by Walker, Karen Thompson
- The Return of Captain John Emmett by Speller, Elizabeth
- Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane*
- The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton by Speller, Elizabeth
- The Odyssey by Homer
- The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Gaiman, Neil
- The Long War by Pratchett, Terry and Stephen Baxter
- Emperor Mollusk Versus the Sinister Brain by Martinez, A. Lee
- Code Name Verity by Wein, Elizabeth
Italics indicate library books, asterisks indicate audiobooks, and I didn’t finish reading numbers 8 or 9.
Best Read: Wool by Hugh Howey. All of humanity lives in an underground silo. But when the Sheriff chooses death to go outside, he sets in motion a chain of events that just might lead to a revolution and the uncovering of a vast conspiracy.
Next Best Read(s): The Laurence Bertram novels by Elizabeth Speller. I like mysteries, and I like this post-WWI England setting, and I like this introverted, observant narrator. One is a suicide under mysterious circumstances, and the other is a cold case concerning a missing child.
Books Not Finished: Emperor Mollusk was too earnest to be a genuine parody and too silly to be a genuine satire; The Long War ought to have been named The Long Wait, considering that no war was even on the horizon by page 150.
Books Finished, By Golly: The Odyssey may have taken me all month to wade through, but I did read it cover to cover. A favorite sentiment from a book about hospitality–Welcome the arriving and speed the departing guest.
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