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[geekchick]

I keep forgetting to keep track of this stuff. Books read since March or whenever it was I last posted.

5. High Performance Websites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers, Steve Souders


6. Fool, Christopher Moore


7. Captain Freedom: A Superhero's Quest for Truth, Justice, and the Celebrity He So Richly Deserves, G. Xavier Robillard


8. The Shadow Queen, Anne Bishop


9. Palimpsest, Cat Valente


10. Turn Coat, Jim Butcher


11. Ravens in the Library, Phil Brucato and Sandra Buskirk (ed.)


12. Shakespeare Wrote for Money, Nick Hornby


13. The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read, Stuart Kelly


14. An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably Didn't, Judy Jones and William Wilson


15. The Terror, Dan Simmons


16. Pattern Recognition, William Gibson


17. Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity, and the Exploration of the Red Planet, Steve Squyres


18. The City and the City, China Miéville


19. Climate Change: Picturing the Science, Gavin Schmidt


20. Tornado Hunter: Getting Inside the Most Violent Storms on Earth, Stefan Bechtel, Tim Samaras, Greg Forbes


21. Santa Olivia, Jacqueline Carey


22. Naamah's Kiss, Jacqueline Carey


23. Let It Bleed, Ian Rankin


24. To the Ends of the Earth: 100 Maps That Changed the World, Jeremy Harwood


25. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith


26. Ink and Steel, Elizabeth Bear


27. Hell and Earth, Elizabeth Bear


28. Skin Trade, Laurell K. Hamilton


29. In the Garden of Iden, Kage Baker


30. Sky Coyote, Kage Baker


31. Mendoza in Hollywood, Kage Baker


32. The Graveyard Game, Kage Baker


33. The Life of the World to Come, Kage Baker

Comments

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I met Tim Samaras, one of the authors of the tornado chasing book, at AMS a couple years ago.

Still sticking with the Anita Blake series? :-) I gave up at Cerulean Sins.

How were Palimpsest and Santa Olivia?

[geekchick]

Yeah, I'm still reading it (and the Merry Gentry series) although I gave up buying the books many installments ago. Can't help it, want to know what happens. =) And this one has a lot of Edward in it, so there's that.

Santa Olivia was okay. It's more intimate than the Kushiel series (I haven't read her other series), it's set in a small town and doesn't have the big, world-encompassing plots that the Kushiel books do.

Palimpsest was good, I liked it. I liked The Orphan's Tales more though, I must admit. Have you read any of Cat Valente's other stuff?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I haven't. I just noticed Palimpsest the other day as a recommendation on my Amazon home page.

[geekchick]

I think it's going to be one of those things that you either love or you hate. There's a page on her site with info, and a link to the original short story. If you like that, you'll probably like the novel. Just out of curiosity, did you see what it was that triggered the recommendation?

[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't remember what I was looking at that triggered the recommendation, but I was intrigued by the description and reviews on the Amazon page for Palimpsest. Of course, it's not a high priority with the semester about to start. :-)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I liked the first Kushiel trilogy, but have been unable to get around to reading the second set (I have two of the three books on my shelf, one in hardcover). I'm impressed... you're averaging a whole book per week? I haven't done that since... college, maybe?