My books, let me show you them

[debitha]

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

Comments

[sassafrassle.livejournal.com]

I love Kelley Armstrong - is that her latest? The last one I read was about Jaime and the ghost children but I forget what it was called. Have you read any Kim Harrison? You might enjoy those too - they're a little less serious I think than KA but a similar vein (those sorts of preter/supernatural chick-lit-ish books seem to be proliferating and I'm pretty happy about it:))

I always meant to read The Prince but never quite got round to it...

[debitha.livejournal.com]

Personal Demon is the one after that - it's about the Chaos Demon chickie.

I have read the Rachel Morgan books, and enjoyed most of them, but they're starting to annoy me. I like a flawed heroine (far more interesting that way), but it seems to be getting to the point where she's just a helpless bimbo with a sense of self-preservation in the negative. Increasingly I don't care about her travails and just want to smack her and tell her to sort herself out. I also feel like the author is cheating on the relationship front, and that bugs me too.

[lazyknight.livejournal.com]

Lotsa urban fantasy about ATM, you're right.

If you've not read them, try The Dresden Files (Small Favour, listed above, is the latest in the series). Very cool, much better than the TV series based on the books.

And ignore what Debbie says about Rachel Morgan, I can't wait to see what happens after _Where Demons Dare_... although even I am now thinking that the tension between Rachel and Ivy is getting a bit stale...

(And I'm now off to read some Patrcia Briggs)

[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.

[lazyknight.livejournal.com]

Ah, but the next male in line is Al, a romance that appeals to my sense of the slapstick.

[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.