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Watchmen at 1:45 at the Hoffman in Alexandria. Be there or be..elsewhere, I guess.

Also, Theresa Andersson at Jammin' Java tonight at 7.

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Huh. Six months worth of reading to keep track of. "Oops". Lack of comments below does not mean I disliked the books (quite the opposite in most cases), just that it's either been months since I read them or am too tired to put in anything coherent right now.

Last of the books from 2008:

56. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova.


57. The Fourth World of the Hopis, Harold Courlander. A compilation of versions of Hopi legends. It was given to me as a gift ages ago, and sadly I just recently got around to picking it up. (Thanks, Steve!)


58. Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think about Contemporary Weddings, Collen Curran.


59. Beware of God, Shalom Auslander. There needs to be a Bookslut equivalent of Ecto's EWS. This I picked up entirely because of hearing repeated mention of it over there. If you are offended by someone portraying God as an enormous chicken, or as being kind of a dick, this is not the book for you. Otherwise, it's hysterical.


60. The House of Storms, Ian R. MacLeod.


61. Swallowing Darkness, Laurell K. Hamilton. Oh my god, this was awful. It tries to wrap up six books worth of plot in one volume that reads like it was churned out over a long weekend, perhaps over one of the drinking holidays. I am even more glad now that I've long since sworn off buying her stuff new. Unfortunately I'm a bit of a completist, so I'll keep reading a series long after I should've stopped. Mostly though via the library.


62. 2012: The Return of Queztlcoatl, Daniel Pinchbeck. I saw this guy on The Daily Show and thought he seemed like a bit of an affable nutbar, so made a note to pick up the book if I found it for cheap. If you're interested in reading about the Mayan calendar, this is really not your book. If you're interested in reading about Pinchbeck's entheogenic experiences, you're a bit better off, but I gather Breaking Open the Head would be better still.


63. Blood and Iron, Elizabeth Bear.


64. Whiskey and Water, Elizabeth Bear.


65. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Nathaniel Philbrick.


66. The Wordy Shipmates, Sarah Vowell. Continuing on the Pilgrims theme, with added snark. My geekgirl crush on Sarah Vowell continues unabated.


67. Weird Tales from Shakespeare, Katharine Kerr (ed.).


68. Welcome to the Jungle, Jim Butcher/Ardian Syaf.


69. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman. I'm intrigued by the fact that Neil's children's books are so much creepier than most of his stuff aimed at adults. (We shall not speak of the Corinthian.)

And on to 2009:

1. Set the Seas on Fire, Chris Roberson


2. Not Flesh Nor Feathers, Cherie Priest.


3. Fathom, Cherie Priest.


4. About Time 1: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who - Seasons 1 to 3 I have been reading this for seriously about a month now. It's three hundred two-column pages of roughly 8pt type. My biggest complaint is the layout, honestly; there are sidebar-esque diversions that end up stretching over two and three pages and seriously break up the flow of the chapters.