Friday, December 29, 2006

Banner of Souls by Liz Williams

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Gate to Women's Country by Sheri S Tepper - Interesting, especially the bits of the play about Iphegenia at Illium, but on the whole I thought it made its point a little too bluntly. Also, the contrasting patriarchal society was a joke and not at all a serious argument. Still, it was fun to read.
Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran

Monday, December 04, 2006

JSA: The Liberty Files

Sunday, December 03, 2006

Bloodmusic by Greg Bear

Friday, December 01, 2006

Vampire Circus. It's a Hammer film from 1972 and has both Lalla Ward and Robin Sachs in it. I will never find it anywhere.

Thursday, November 30, 2006

The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Jennifer Government by Max Barry.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

Skin by Kathe Koja

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Gifts by Ursula K Le Guin

The Revelation by Bentley Little

Corbenic by Catherine Fisher

The Zero by Jess Walker
Tooth and Claw by Jo Walton.

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel.

Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Ordinary Horror by David Searcy

Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Vanishing Point by Michael Roessner.

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem

Thursday, October 19, 2006

The Raffles the Amateur Cracksman novels.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeffry Lindsay. - Awesome. A+. Engaging plot, intriguing narrator (who, okay, sounds like the Shade in my head), reasonable if rushed denoument (I totally spelled that wrong). I can't wait to read the sequel.

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Penda's Fen by David Rudkin. It's a play and/or movie.

It's that thing that Rebis quotes in Doom Patrol - "I am mud and flame."

Friday, October 06, 2006

The Black Company series by Glen Cook

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon.
The Years of Our War by Steph Swainston.
The Steerswoman by Rosemary Kirstein.

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Jesus Christ Superstar: Resurrection. Yes, the one with the Indigo Girls. (Check soulseek.)

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

The Hellsing manga. Shut up. - Read the first volume and didn't care for it. Part of it is due to the fact that I don't care to read backwards and I find the art hard to follow (yes, yes, western comics reader, me) but most of it is due to the fact that it seems to be all action and no character work. Maybe if I'd read further, this would have improved but as it was, I didn't see any compelling reason to give the series any more of my time.
Live From Golgotha by Gore Vidal

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Fools War by Sarah Zettel
The novels of Tananarive Due.
Jim Butcher - the Dresden Files novels. - Read the first one. Interesting, if a little clunky, and I like Harry Dresden and the world that Butcher has set up. However, I didn't like it enough to rush to read the rest of the series. Might be fun to pick up once in a while but not a must-read.
A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Princess Tutu. It's an anime.

Yeah, I know.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

The Player of Games by Iain Banks. And possibly other Culture novels by the same author.
Dark Sleeper by Jeffrey E Barlough
The Crooked Letter by Sean Williams.

Our Lady of the Lost and Found by Diane Schoemperlen.

Monday, September 11, 2006

The Bride of Frankenstein by Elizabeth Hand. And indeed many of the related monster-fanfic novels released by Dark Horse Press.

Shoot me now.

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Raptor Red by Robert T Bakker - Grabs but doesn't stick. It's a neat book and I feel like I'm learning neat things from it but it reads like a National Geographic episode. It's very cinematic - I feel like I can see all of the action, which is rare for me. Enjoyable, but probably not a reread unless I'm really in the mood for dinosaurs.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

The Colorado Kid by Stephen King

Friday, September 08, 2006

Perfume by Patrick Suskind. - Read about half of it. Didn't grab me. No interesting characters and even the monster only had one thing going for him - his preternatural sense of smell. Descriptions of perfume industry and perfume making were interesting to a point. Concept is lovely - a person with no personal odor who therefore disconcerts everyone who comes in contact with him and who experiences the world primarily through smell - but the concept is all the book has going for it. Not really a hit.

Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys by Candace Savage.

City of Saints and Madmen by Jeff Vandermeer.

Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton

Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith

Mirror and Death Trance by Graham Masterton

As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem

Tokyo by Mo Haydar

Thursday, September 07, 2006

First post

This will be my booklog, as I don't want to put it on LJ. My personal LJ is too chaotic and cluttered for me to organize it properly and I don't having to sign out of it to post in another journal. And del.icio.us doesn't work the way I want it to. So the booklog will be kept here. I'll post titles of books I want to read and come back and review them after I've read them. I may put movies here too. We'll see.

Hurrah!