My books, let me show you them
Aug. 11th, 2008 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
On Saturday it was cold and wet and I was mooching around town, so I swung by The Best Bookshop in the World. An hour or so later I walked out, the pleased owner of 4 shiny new books. Then I got home and was confronted by my already fairly large "To Read" pile. Oops.
I haven't been reading a lot lately - mostly surfing the internet, or entering a vegetative state. So I am going to write it out here as a motivation. Sometimes that even works. And then as I finish the books I will (well, may) tell you about them. You lucky, lucky people.
The Prince - Machiavelli (This is a small book but fairly hard going, being an academic translation of a 15th century Italian text.)
The Lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch (This book is great - the depth and complexity of the world Lynch has invented is incredible, the characters are interesting. I have no idea why I haven't torn through it at breakneck speed, but I keep reading a chunk of it, putting it down, and not picking it up again for ages. Weird.)
Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden - Morgan Spurlock
Personal Demon - Kelley Armstrong
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain - John O'Farrell
The Lantern Bearers - Rosemary Sutcliffe
Small Favour - Jim Butcher
Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich
The Incredulity of Father Brown - GK Chesterton
Tithe - Holly Black
Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
The Mark of the Horse Lord - Rosemary Sutcliffe
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
I haven't been reading a lot lately - mostly surfing the internet, or entering a vegetative state. So I am going to write it out here as a motivation. Sometimes that even works. And then as I finish the books I will (well, may) tell you about them. You lucky, lucky people.
The Prince - Machiavelli (This is a small book but fairly hard going, being an academic translation of a 15th century Italian text.)
Personal Demon - Kelley Armstrong
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain - John O'Farrell
The Lantern Bearers - Rosemary Sutcliffe
Small Favour - Jim Butcher
Lean Mean Thirteen - Janet Evanovich
The Incredulity of Father Brown - GK Chesterton
Tithe - Holly Black
Red Seas Under Red Skies - Scott Lynch
The Mark of the Horse Lord - Rosemary Sutcliffe
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - JK Rowling
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Date: 2008-08-17 07:11 pm (UTC)And frankly after, what, six books? Sexual tension just isn't tense anymore. Rachel just bores me now, in much the same way as Anita Blake does. Tiresome.
I second the Dresden Files rec, though.
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Date: 2008-08-17 09:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-08-18 08:40 am (UTC)