June/July reading

[geekchick]

Today is Prickle-Prickle, day 68 in the season of Confusion, 3271.

I missed June's list of what I'd been reading, so I'll condense June and July into this one post. Not really any commentary right this second because I mostly want to get this written down before I go crawl into bed or else I'll forget to do it for yet another month.

• Fleshmarket Alley, Ian Rankin
  
• A Question of Blood, Ian Rankin
  
• McSweeney's #16 (They aren't kidding, it comes with a comb. Why is there a watermelon comb there?)
  
• Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro
  
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling
  
• The Time-Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger. Okay, one tiny bit of commentary: I loved this book. Loved it. I don't usually do a whole lot of re-reading of books (Jane Eyre being an exception), but this one will be read again.
  
• Strangers in Paradise Pocket Book Collection vols. 1,2, and 3, Terry Moore (A handy way to catch up, by which I mean "start reading from the beginning".)
  
• Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk. I could've lived my life quite happily without ever once having read "Guts". Seriously. I suppose though that since I did sort of ask a friend to send me a link to it a while ago when he mentioned it, I did get exactly what I asked for.
  

If I count correctly, that's 28 completed so far this year. (I forgot to count Nick Hornby's The Polysyllabic Spree in with May's books). I'm slacking, it seems.

Comments

*boggle*

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Fleshmarket Alley?

Sounds like they retitled that one for the US market. Which wouldn't be so odd except that it's named after an actual place in Edinburgh - Fleshmarket Close.

Re: *boggle*

[geekchick]

They did indeed do just that. We couldn't possibly be expected to figure out "Fleshmarket Close" on our own, I suppose. Heh, there was just a tiny bit of ranting (*ahem*) by a friend of mine about the retitling when it was released, which is to be honest how I happened to know it had been done.

[winterbadger]

Ian Rankin, Harry Potter, and Terry Moore--we do have a good deal of booklist in common. :-)

[geekchick]

I'm totally shocked by that, truly I am. ;)

I'm reading the Ian Rankin stuff in reverse order it seems, but since both of the ones I've read have been described as "a fine place for someone new to the Inspector Rebus stories to begin", I suppose it doesn't matter so much. =)

[winterbadger]

I'm totally shocked by that, truly I am. ;)
Yeah, who'd'a thought it? :-) I should write up my own recent reading list so we coudl compare further. I do get ideas from you of what I might want to try next.

[Rebus] I loved the TV series (I have a huge and largely platonic crush on John Hannah), so I just picked up one at random (Knots and Crosses) when I was in Scotland in May. Of course, now I have one of the UK editions, I'm loathe to get some of the US ones because the cover art isn't the same and I want them all to "fit". Silly, in any case, I should just be borrowing them from the library. :-)

[geekchick]

Of course, now I have one of the UK editions, I'm loathe to get some of the US ones because the cover art isn't the same and I want them all to "fit".

Plus, you'd get the correct titles that way! ;)