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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

Date: 2008-08-17 07:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] debitha.livejournal.com
Amongst other things I am annoyed that the only acceptable circumstance in which our heroine can get together with her lesbian vampire love-bunny flatmate is if every possible male alternative is crossed off the list. Contrived much?

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.

Date: 2008-08-17 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lazyknight.livejournal.com
Ah, but the next male in line is Al, a romance that appeals to my sense of the slapstick.

Date: 2008-08-18 08:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] debitha.livejournal.com
OK, see, I'm not actually sure whether you're joking. To my mind, the fact that it is a remote possibility says bad things about the author. Anyway, what about Trent? At least he's kind of interesting.

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