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rushthatspeaksBooks Read
In as best a chronological order as I can recall, except that November goes down any old how.
November 2005 (started counting the 26th, list includes from about the 15th):
The Steerswoman, The Outskirter's Secret, The Lost Steersman, Rosemary Kirstein
Black Hearts in Battersea, Joan Aiken
Shot in the Heart, Mikal Gilmore
City of Djinns, William Dalrymple
Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis (re-read)
Peeps, Scott Westerfeld
Those Who Hunt the Night, Barbara Hambly
Bet Me, Jennifer Crusie
Witchcraft in England, Christina Hole
Love Mode, v. 1
Shinobu Kokoro (I think it's a one-shot)
Earthian v. 1
Please Save My Earth v. 1
Fire Logic, Laurie J. Marks
Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs, ed. Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman (good Anthony Bourdain essay)
The Gastronomical Me, M. F. K. Fisher (halfway)
Please Save My Earth v. 2
Reading aloud to wife (depending on mood):
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
various H. P. Lovecraft including 'Pickman's Model' and 'The Thing on the Doorstep'
The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison
The Masqueraders, Georgette Heyer
December:
The Best of American Splendor, Harvey Pekar
Outsiders: Wanted, Judd Winick
Global Frequency v. 2, Warren Ellis (note to self: keep remembering that this title is too violent, and not just that the premise is cool)
Kizuna v. 4, Kazuma Kodaka
Cage in the Finder, v. 2 of oddly titled yaoi series of which first was Target in the Finder, Ayano Yamane
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clark
The Sorceress and the Cygnet, Patricia McKillip (re-read)
Last House, M. F. K. Fisher
Dangerous Drawings, ed. Andrea Juno (G.B. Jones and Phoebe Gloeckner interviews among others)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Karen Cushman
Fire, Marguerite Yourcenar
A Coalition of Lions, Elizabeth Wein
Fell, issue 3, Warren Ellis
Flame of Recca v. 15, Noboyuki Anzai
Angel Sanctuary v. 11, Kaori Yuki
Qwan v. 3, Aki Shimizu
Gals v. 4, Fujii Mihona
Gals v. 2, v. 3, Fujii Mihona (re-read)
enough of Walking the Labyrinth, by Lisa Goldstein, to realize that it is boring and I hate the heroine
It Made Sense At The Time... Selected Sketches by Ursula Vernon, Ursula Vernon
Digger v. 1 (re-read in new dead tree format), Ursula Vernon
some Keats, at random (comfort re-reading), including 'The Eve of St. Agnes' ,'Lamia I' and the one about the pot of basil
The Cenci, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and also some translations of his from Goethe's Faust
XXXholic v. 6, CLAMP
Doctor Dolittle on the Moon, Hugh Lofting (re-read)
Please Save My Earth v. 3, v. 4, v. 5, Saki Hiwatari
Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo-Tokyo, Patrick Macias and Tomohiro Machiyama
Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit: The Essential Guide, Glenn Dakin (OMG screenshots with all the visual puns yay)
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder, Rachel Reiland
La Esperanca v. 1, Chigusa Kawai
A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bourdain (re-read)
Dog Blessings: A Collection of Poems, Quotes, Facts, & Myths, Bob Lovka (trapped in waiting room oh gods THE PAIN)
Target in the Finder, Ayano Yamane (re-read)
Public Enemy #2: A Boondocks Collection, Aaron McGruder (re-read)
Love My Life, Ebine Yamaji (scanslation)
Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link (re-read)
The Virginian, Owen Wister (my first e-book!)
Dramacon v. 1, Svetlana Chmakova
Winter Rose, Patricia McKillip (re-read)
The Cartoon History of the Universe, Vol. III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, Larry Gonick
Hunter X Hunter v. 6, Yoshihiro Togashi
MeruPuri v. 3, Matsuri Hino
Reading aloud to wife:
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (finished 12/24)
The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison
The Masqueraders, Georgette Heyer
selected essays from Last House, M. F. K. Fisher
To Be Read
These are in no particular order and will happen as I come across them.
Sitting Right Here:
The Sunbird, Elizabeth Wein
Earth Logic, Laurie Marks
Swordspoint, Ellen Kushner
Fall of Kings, Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
various Faulkner, including As I Lay Dying
Perelandra, C. S. Lewis (re-read)
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
The Sound of His Horn, Sarban
Library/Bookstore:
Specific:
the Heike Monogatari
Dangerous Games, The Cuckoo Tree, Dido and Pa, Joan Aiken
The Language of Power, Rosemary Kirstein
The Emerald Wand of Oz, Sherwood Smith
Dragonsbane, Bride of the Rat God, Barbara Hambly
Guide to Supernatural Fiction, E. F. Bleiler
I Am Jonathan Scrivener, Claude Houghton
City of Glass, Moon Palace, Paul Auster
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
The Temptation of St. Anthony, Salammbo, Gustave Flaubert
The Victorian Age in Literature, The Club of Queer Trades, G. K. Chesterton
The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel Tales, Clark B. Firestone
Book of Beasts, T. H. White
The Seven Deadly Sins, Morton W. Bloomfield
The Survival of the Pagan Gods, Jean Seznec
Voyages to the Moon, Marjorie Hope Nicolson
Mysteriously Meant, Don Cameron Allen
The Code of the Woosters, Right Ho, Jeeves, Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini
Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
The Unfortunate Fursey, Mervyn Wall
Thus Was Adonis Murdered, Sarah Caudwell
The Five Jars, M. R. James
The Book of My Life, Girolamo Cardano
What a Life, E. V. Lucas and George Morrow
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Game of Kings (re-read) in order to read Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
Hello Summer, Goodbye, Friends Come in Boxes, Michael Coney
Mind-Hold, Mind-Find (re-reads), Wilanne Schneider Belden
Midsummer Moon, Laura Kinsale
Mother London, Michael Moorcock
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, Vivien Alcock
Midnight Is A Place, Joan Aiken
The Secret World of Polly Flint, Moondial, Helen Cresswell
Authors I need more of/to start, generally:
Jennifer Crusie
Connie Brockway
Loretta Chase
Icelandic sagas
Flann O'Brien
M. F. K. Fisher
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Montague Summers
Frances Yates
Sylvia Plath
In as best a chronological order as I can recall, except that November goes down any old how.
November 2005 (started counting the 26th, list includes from about the 15th):
The Steerswoman, The Outskirter's Secret, The Lost Steersman, Rosemary Kirstein
Black Hearts in Battersea, Joan Aiken
Shot in the Heart, Mikal Gilmore
City of Djinns, William Dalrymple
Out of the Silent Planet, C. S. Lewis (re-read)
Peeps, Scott Westerfeld
Those Who Hunt the Night, Barbara Hambly
Bet Me, Jennifer Crusie
Witchcraft in England, Christina Hole
Love Mode, v. 1
Shinobu Kokoro (I think it's a one-shot)
Earthian v. 1
Please Save My Earth v. 1
Fire Logic, Laurie J. Marks
Don't Try This At Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs, ed. Kimberly Witherspoon and Andrew Friedman (good Anthony Bourdain essay)
The Gastronomical Me, M. F. K. Fisher (halfway)
Please Save My Earth v. 2
Reading aloud to wife (depending on mood):
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain
various H. P. Lovecraft including 'Pickman's Model' and 'The Thing on the Doorstep'
The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison
The Masqueraders, Georgette Heyer
December:
The Best of American Splendor, Harvey Pekar
Outsiders: Wanted, Judd Winick
Global Frequency v. 2, Warren Ellis (note to self: keep remembering that this title is too violent, and not just that the premise is cool)
Kizuna v. 4, Kazuma Kodaka
Cage in the Finder, v. 2 of oddly titled yaoi series of which first was Target in the Finder, Ayano Yamane
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clark
The Sorceress and the Cygnet, Patricia McKillip (re-read)
Last House, M. F. K. Fisher
Dangerous Drawings, ed. Andrea Juno (G.B. Jones and Phoebe Gloeckner interviews among others)
The Ballad of Lucy Whipple, Karen Cushman
Fire, Marguerite Yourcenar
A Coalition of Lions, Elizabeth Wein
Fell, issue 3, Warren Ellis
Flame of Recca v. 15, Noboyuki Anzai
Angel Sanctuary v. 11, Kaori Yuki
Qwan v. 3, Aki Shimizu
Gals v. 4, Fujii Mihona
Gals v. 2, v. 3, Fujii Mihona (re-read)
enough of Walking the Labyrinth, by Lisa Goldstein, to realize that it is boring and I hate the heroine
It Made Sense At The Time... Selected Sketches by Ursula Vernon, Ursula Vernon
Digger v. 1 (re-read in new dead tree format), Ursula Vernon
some Keats, at random (comfort re-reading), including 'The Eve of St. Agnes' ,'Lamia I' and the one about the pot of basil
The Cenci, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and also some translations of his from Goethe's Faust
XXXholic v. 6, CLAMP
Doctor Dolittle on the Moon, Hugh Lofting (re-read)
Please Save My Earth v. 3, v. 4, v. 5, Saki Hiwatari
Cruising the Anime City: An Otaku Guide to Neo-Tokyo, Patrick Macias and Tomohiro Machiyama
Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot
Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit: The Essential Guide, Glenn Dakin (OMG screenshots with all the visual puns yay)
Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder, Rachel Reiland
La Esperanca v. 1, Chigusa Kawai
A Cook's Tour, Anthony Bourdain (re-read)
Dog Blessings: A Collection of Poems, Quotes, Facts, & Myths, Bob Lovka (trapped in waiting room oh gods THE PAIN)
Target in the Finder, Ayano Yamane (re-read)
Public Enemy #2: A Boondocks Collection, Aaron McGruder (re-read)
Love My Life, Ebine Yamaji (scanslation)
Stranger Things Happen, Kelly Link (re-read)
The Virginian, Owen Wister (my first e-book!)
Dramacon v. 1, Svetlana Chmakova
Winter Rose, Patricia McKillip (re-read)
The Cartoon History of the Universe, Vol. III: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance, Larry Gonick
Hunter X Hunter v. 6, Yoshihiro Togashi
MeruPuri v. 3, Matsuri Hino
Reading aloud to wife:
Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain (finished 12/24)
The Worm Ouroboros, E. R. Eddison
The Masqueraders, Georgette Heyer
selected essays from Last House, M. F. K. Fisher
To Be Read
These are in no particular order and will happen as I come across them.
Sitting Right Here:
The Sunbird, Elizabeth Wein
Earth Logic, Laurie Marks
Swordspoint, Ellen Kushner
Fall of Kings, Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
various Faulkner, including As I Lay Dying
Perelandra, C. S. Lewis (re-read)
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
The Sound of His Horn, Sarban
Library/Bookstore:
Specific:
the Heike Monogatari
Dangerous Games, The Cuckoo Tree, Dido and Pa, Joan Aiken
The Language of Power, Rosemary Kirstein
The Emerald Wand of Oz, Sherwood Smith
Dragonsbane, Bride of the Rat God, Barbara Hambly
Guide to Supernatural Fiction, E. F. Bleiler
I Am Jonathan Scrivener, Claude Houghton
City of Glass, Moon Palace, Paul Auster
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
The Temptation of St. Anthony, Salammbo, Gustave Flaubert
The Victorian Age in Literature, The Club of Queer Trades, G. K. Chesterton
The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel Tales, Clark B. Firestone
Book of Beasts, T. H. White
The Seven Deadly Sins, Morton W. Bloomfield
The Survival of the Pagan Gods, Jean Seznec
Voyages to the Moon, Marjorie Hope Nicolson
Mysteriously Meant, Don Cameron Allen
The Code of the Woosters, Right Ho, Jeeves, Leave It to Psmith, P. G. Wodehouse
The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins
Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini
Rogue Male, Geoffrey Household
The Unfortunate Fursey, Mervyn Wall
Thus Was Adonis Murdered, Sarah Caudwell
The Five Jars, M. R. James
The Book of My Life, Girolamo Cardano
What a Life, E. V. Lucas and George Morrow
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
The Game of Kings (re-read) in order to read Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
Hello Summer, Goodbye, Friends Come in Boxes, Michael Coney
Mind-Hold, Mind-Find (re-reads), Wilanne Schneider Belden
Midsummer Moon, Laura Kinsale
Mother London, Michael Moorcock
The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, Vivien Alcock
Midnight Is A Place, Joan Aiken
The Secret World of Polly Flint, Moondial, Helen Cresswell
Authors I need more of/to start, generally:
Jennifer Crusie
Connie Brockway
Loretta Chase
Icelandic sagas
Flann O'Brien
M. F. K. Fisher
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Montague Summers
Frances Yates
Sylvia Plath
