Way behind
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handsliveOuch. It's February and I haven't posted one word about what I've been reading.
January 2007 - Fantasy & Science Fiction
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower - Book 5) - Stephen King
February 2007 - Fantasy & Science Fiction
Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay
Starfish - Peter Watts
Nine Layers of Sky - Liz Williams
Camouflage - Joe Haldeman
The February F&SF featured the last story by John Morressy from the backlog of material they had. I'm going to miss his stories a lot.
Wolves was okay, but King is tying together fictional and "real" (from the character's perspective) universes here and I'm not sure it'll all work out in the end. And of course razor frisbee.
Ysabel was excellent. And now I feel a need to read some previous books by Kay. No reason.
Starfish was my first "holy fuck!" book of the year. By that I mean both "Why haven't I read all of Peter Watts stuff already? Who is this guy?!" and also "Crap! The author just removed the top of my head with the power of his mind!"
Sky was good. The ending wasn't quite what I imagined, but that's a good thing.
Camouflage was very good. It's too bad I'd so recently read some Peter Watts stuff. I enjoy Haldeman, but I'm geeking out about Watts just now and this book features the weird, the ocean, and marine biologists. Sorry, but no contest.
Also, I want to go over my list from last year and highlight things for myself.
January 2007 - Fantasy & Science Fiction
Wolves of the Calla (The Dark Tower - Book 5) - Stephen King
February 2007 - Fantasy & Science Fiction
Ysabel - Guy Gavriel Kay
Starfish - Peter Watts
Nine Layers of Sky - Liz Williams
Camouflage - Joe Haldeman
The February F&SF featured the last story by John Morressy from the backlog of material they had. I'm going to miss his stories a lot.
Wolves was okay, but King is tying together fictional and "real" (from the character's perspective) universes here and I'm not sure it'll all work out in the end. And of course razor frisbee.
Ysabel was excellent. And now I feel a need to read some previous books by Kay. No reason.
Starfish was my first "holy fuck!" book of the year. By that I mean both "Why haven't I read all of Peter Watts stuff already? Who is this guy?!" and also "Crap! The author just removed the top of my head with the power of his mind!"
Sky was good. The ending wasn't quite what I imagined, but that's a good thing.
Camouflage was very good. It's too bad I'd so recently read some Peter Watts stuff. I enjoy Haldeman, but I'm geeking out about Watts just now and this book features the weird, the ocean, and marine biologists. Sorry, but no contest.
Also, I want to go over my list from last year and highlight things for myself.
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Date: 2007-02-06 01:30 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-02-06 02:26 am (UTC)i, for no reason, am smiling. (-:
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Date: 2007-02-06 06:20 pm (UTC)YAY! And ditto (just ask Nels, I ranted about his books every night)! That's how I knew I had to force them upon you. Now read Blindsight!
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Date: 2007-02-06 06:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-07 12:59 am (UTC)And, as it happens about about 2/3 finished Blindsight and loving it.