books, to the best of my recollection
Oct. 8th, 2006 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaeclecticI did intend to try and blog all my reading this year, but apparently I haven't posted on this topic since early July. And I've moved twice since then.
I do recall that I finished Tipping Point for the book club, and then re-read a couple or few favorite San Germain novels -- I think maybe Hotel Transylvania and Blood Games and Tempting Fate.
For August, the book club picked Annie Proulx' That Old Ace in the Hole, which was not great but good. Toward the beginning of the book, I really noticed the texture of the language and the descriptions of landscape, then just kind of settled in to noticing the characters.
When I moved into the hotel, I packed a single file box full of books to hold me over for the month or three that I expected to be there. The box included some things I've never read -- none of which were touched -- and a bunch of old favorites, including some things I hadn't gone back to for a long time. I intended to post something before moving, so I could just look at the stack of books on the table, but that didn't happen. So, from memory, hotel reading included:
Fox Running, a slender young adult novel with mildly lesbian overtones, which was as much fun as I remembered
The Price of Salt, a classic lesbian novel from the early 60's (I think, ought to go find it and check, might be late 50's), which remains interesting as a historical artifact, not al that compelling (to me) otherwise
the Sarantium novesl by Guy Gavriel Kay
Hmm. I keep thinking there was at least one more, can't come up with it now.
Then the book club picked Michener's Hawai'ii, and decided we needed more than a month to go through it, so we skipped September and met last week instead. Another novel that shows it's age, but interesting and entertaining nonetheless, as long as you're willing to pick your way through the oh-so-1959 attitudes toward gender, race, culture, and so on.
Once through that, I went back into pure brain candy mode: Picked up The Hallowed Hunt, third in Bujold's Chalion series. The reviews had been mediocre, and it certainly did not reach the peak attained by the first two, but I enjoyed it thoroughly nonetheless. Then decided to say in Bujold mode for a bit, and raced through a favorite quartet of Vorkosigan novels (Mirror Dance, Memory, Komarr, A Civil Campaign). I have an undue fondness for Mark's black gang, I must admit.
Now in the midst of Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy (literally, halfway through book 2). Also started Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, having found that the second bathroom needs its own reading material :)
And need to pick up a copy of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which is the book club book for November.
OK. I guess that's as caught up as I'm likely to get.
I do recall that I finished Tipping Point for the book club, and then re-read a couple or few favorite San Germain novels -- I think maybe Hotel Transylvania and Blood Games and Tempting Fate.
For August, the book club picked Annie Proulx' That Old Ace in the Hole, which was not great but good. Toward the beginning of the book, I really noticed the texture of the language and the descriptions of landscape, then just kind of settled in to noticing the characters.
When I moved into the hotel, I packed a single file box full of books to hold me over for the month or three that I expected to be there. The box included some things I've never read -- none of which were touched -- and a bunch of old favorites, including some things I hadn't gone back to for a long time. I intended to post something before moving, so I could just look at the stack of books on the table, but that didn't happen. So, from memory, hotel reading included:
Fox Running, a slender young adult novel with mildly lesbian overtones, which was as much fun as I remembered
The Price of Salt, a classic lesbian novel from the early 60's (I think, ought to go find it and check, might be late 50's), which remains interesting as a historical artifact, not al that compelling (to me) otherwise
the Sarantium novesl by Guy Gavriel Kay
Hmm. I keep thinking there was at least one more, can't come up with it now.
Then the book club picked Michener's Hawai'ii, and decided we needed more than a month to go through it, so we skipped September and met last week instead. Another novel that shows it's age, but interesting and entertaining nonetheless, as long as you're willing to pick your way through the oh-so-1959 attitudes toward gender, race, culture, and so on.
Once through that, I went back into pure brain candy mode: Picked up The Hallowed Hunt, third in Bujold's Chalion series. The reviews had been mediocre, and it certainly did not reach the peak attained by the first two, but I enjoyed it thoroughly nonetheless. Then decided to say in Bujold mode for a bit, and raced through a favorite quartet of Vorkosigan novels (Mirror Dance, Memory, Komarr, A Civil Campaign). I have an undue fondness for Mark's black gang, I must admit.
Now in the midst of Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy (literally, halfway through book 2). Also started Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, having found that the second bathroom needs its own reading material :)
And need to pick up a copy of Guns, Germs, and Steel, which is the book club book for November.
OK. I guess that's as caught up as I'm likely to get.