book list, March 2006

I made three resolutions this year. First, get a job. (Done.) Second, exercise more regularly and lose weight. (In process.) Third, keep a list of the books I read.

These are the books I read in March, 2006:

New: 24
---Petshop of Horrors, vols. 1-9, Matsuri Akino (manga: awfully pretty, weird mix of moral lessons, horror, and relatively blatant subtext between D and Leon)
---YuYu Hakusho, vols. 1-8, Yoshihiro Togashi (manga: ghosts, demons, and lots of fighting; lacks a certain amount of coherence, but is way too much fun for me to care!)
---Trigun Maximum, vols. 6 & 7, Yasuhiro Nightow (manga: cracked-out sci-fi, gunfights, weird humor, and more angst than you can shake a stick at)
---Transmetropolitan: Dirge, Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, & Rodney Ramos (comics: vaguely dystopian cyberpunk future -- but alive in a way most such futures aren't -- with an overarching story about an outlaw journalist taking on a corrupt politician)
---Transmetropolitan: The Cure, Ellis, Robertson, & Ramos (comics: ditto; both volumes here are from near the end of the series, which I still have yet to read despite it having been finished for a couple years now. *sigh*)
---Runaways: Pride and Joy, Brian Vaughan & Adrian Alphona (comics: a group of teens discovers that their parents are supervillains; what I like best is that the leader is black and the group is composed of 4 girls and 2 boys, and nobody makes a big deal of it.)
---Daisy Miller, Henry James (fiction: understated novelette about cultural misunderstandings)
---Solstice Wood, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: a sequel to Winter Rose, oddly enough, set in a place that's almost-but-not-quite modern America; would work better if it were about three chapters longer or dealt with one or two fewer viewpoint characters)


Old: 4
---Song for the Basilisk, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: a beautiful story, about revenge and magic and music; like lucid dreaming)
---The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: the first of a trilogy involving riddles, wizards, history, music, the sea, and an oddly beautiful land)
---Heir of Sea and Fire, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: in which we learn how Morgon's problems have affected others, most specifically Raederle, the woman he's kinda-sorta engaged to)
---Harpist in the Wind, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: the conclusion of the trilogy)


March Total = 28 books (plus a bunch of fanfiction, quite a lot of newspapers, and several magazines)

Year to Date = 62 books (40 new, 22 old)

...

You know, I've noticed that my habit when rereading books is normally to pick a book off the shelf and kind of skim through to the 'good' bits instead of actually reading the whole thing straight through for the second, third, or twenty-seventh time. So there's a good number of books that I've kind of thumbed through but not actually read, and which therefore didn't make it onto this list.

book list, March 2006

I made three resolutions this year. First, get a job. (Done.) Second, exercise more regularly and lose weight. (In process.) Third, keep a list of the books I read.

These are the books I read in March, 2006:

New: 24
---Petshop of Horrors, vols. 1-9, Matsuri Akino (manga: awfully pretty, weird mix of moral lessons, horror, and relatively blatant subtext between D and Leon)
---YuYu Hakusho, vols. 1-8, Yoshihiro Togashi (manga: ghosts, demons, and lots of fighting; lacks a certain amount of coherence, but is way too much fun for me to care!)
---Trigun Maximum, vols. 6 & 7, Yasuhiro Nightow (manga: cracked-out sci-fi, gunfights, weird humor, and more angst than you can shake a stick at)
---Transmetropolitan: Dirge, Warren Ellis, Darick Robertson, & Rodney Ramos (comics: vaguely dystopian cyberpunk future -- but alive in a way most such futures aren't -- with an overarching story about an outlaw journalist taking on a corrupt politician)
---Transmetropolitan: The Cure, Ellis, Robertson, & Ramos (comics: ditto; both volumes here are from near the end of the series, which I still have yet to read despite it having been finished for a couple years now. *sigh*)
---Runaways: Pride and Joy, Brian Vaughan & Adrian Alphona (comics: a group of teens discovers that their parents are supervillains; what I like best is that the leader is black and the group is composed of 4 girls and 2 boys, and nobody makes a big deal of it.)
---Daisy Miller, Henry James (fiction: understated novelette about cultural misunderstandings)
---Solstice Wood, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: a sequel to Winter Rose, oddly enough, set in a place that's almost-but-not-quite modern America; would work better if it were about three chapters longer or dealt with one or two fewer viewpoint characters)


Old: 4
---Song for the Basilisk, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: a beautiful story, about revenge and magic and music; like lucid dreaming)
---The Riddle-Master of Hed, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: the first of a trilogy involving riddles, wizards, history, music, the sea, and an oddly beautiful land)
---Heir of Sea and Fire, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: in which we learn how Morgon's problems have affected others, most specifically Raederle, the woman he's kinda-sorta engaged to)
---Harpist in the Wind, Patricia A. McKillip (fantasy: the conclusion of the trilogy)


March Total = 28 books (plus a bunch of fanfiction, quite a lot of newspapers, and several magazines)

Year to Date = 62 books (40 new, 22 old)

...

You know, I've noticed that my habit when rereading books is normally to pick a book off the shelf and kind of skim through to the 'good' bits instead of actually reading the whole thing straight through for the second, third, or twenty-seventh time. So there's a good number of books that I've kind of thumbed through but not actually read, and which therefore didn't make it onto this list.