Books read in 2008

After an appalling failure to read much at all in the first half of the year I finally managed to get reading in the last couple of months. My total for 2008 is still abysmal, though.

Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory, Winterfair Gifts, Diplomatic Immunity, Komarr, Falling Free, A Civil Campaign, Labyrith. The Curse of Chalion (reread)

Tania Huff: The Fire's Stone (reread)

Mercedes Lackey: Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, Magic's Price

Karen Traviss: Judge, Star Wars Republic Commando Series 'Order 66' (For god's sake don't dismiss Karen's Republic Commando books as franchise fiction, they're as good as any military SF you'll find and a lot better than most.)

Liz Williams: The Demon and the City

Jaine Fenn: Principles of Angels

Alan Garner: Thursbitch

J. V. Jones: The Barbed Coil

Terry Pratchett: The Last Continent

Rachel Caine: Thin Air

N.M. Browne: Warriors of Alavna, Warriors of Camlann (and the next one in manuscript - thanks Nicky!)

Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair

Trudi Canavan: The Magician's Guild, The Novice, The High Lord

Robin Hobb: The first in the Soldier Son trilogy, but I threw it at the wall when nothing had happened after the first 300 pages and blanked its name from my mind. Pity because i liked the first Farseer trilogy.

Terry Goodkind: Wizard's First Rule (Pressed on me by a friend. I skipped huge chunks of the middle bit and refused the next in like politely. And what was all that BDSM bit about?? And they're making this into a TV series??? Oh.)

And of course there was Fabulous Whitby edited by Sue Thomason and Liz Williams, and Mystery Date, edited by Denise Little, both anthologies containing one of my stories.

There are probably more but they've slipped my mind for now. It's not such a short list as I feared, but I appear to be guilty of a) reading only fantasy and light SF and b) reading mostly books by women authors.

Ho-hum...

Books read in 2008

After an appalling failure to read much at all in the first half of the year I finally managed to get reading in the last couple of months. My total for 2008 is still abysmal, though.

Lois McMaster Bujold: Memory, Winterfair Gifts, Diplomatic Immunity, Komarr, Falling Free, A Civil Campaign, Labyrith. The Curse of Chalion (reread)

Tania Huff: The Fire's Stone (reread)

Mercedes Lackey: Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, Magic's Price

Karen Traviss: Judge, Star Wars Republic Commando Series 'Order 66' (For god's sake don't dismiss Karen's Republic Commando books as franchise fiction, they're as good as any military SF you'll find and a lot better than most.)

Liz Williams: The Demon and the City

Jaine Fenn: Principles of Angels

Alan Garner: Thursbitch

J. V. Jones: The Barbed Coil

Terry Pratchett: The Last Continent

Rachel Caine: Thin Air

N.M. Browne: Warriors of Alavna, Warriors of Camlann (and the next one in manuscript - thanks Nicky!)

Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair

Trudi Canavan: The Magician's Guild, The Novice, The High Lord

Robin Hobb: The first in the Soldier Son trilogy, but I threw it at the wall when nothing had happened after the first 300 pages and blanked its name from my mind. Pity because i liked the first Farseer trilogy.

Terry Goodkind: Wizard's First Rule (Pressed on me by a friend. I skipped huge chunks of the middle bit and refused the next in like politely. And what was all that BDSM bit about?? And they're making this into a TV series??? Oh.)

And of course there was Fabulous Whitby edited by Sue Thomason and Liz Williams, and Mystery Date, edited by Denise Little, both anthologies containing one of my stories.

There are probably more but they've slipped my mind for now. It's not such a short list as I feared, but I appear to be guilty of a) reading only fantasy and light SF and b) reading mostly books by women authors.

Ho-hum...