book list, February 2008

It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in February 2008. I'm experimenting with cuts to keep from annoying people who don't want to read my blather about each book.

Usually I read a lot more than this, but I spent the second half of February watching DVDs of the new Doctor Who. I think it was more than a fair trade-off!

New: 7
---Thumbs, Toes, & Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human, Chip Walter ( nonfiction )

---Children in Colonial America, James Marten, ed. ( nonfiction )

---Mine to Possess, Nalini Singh ( romance )

---White Lies, Jayne Anne Krentz ( romance )

---Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 18, Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley, et al ( comics )

---Fullmetal Alchemist vols. 1-2, Hiromu Arakawa ( manga )

Old: 3
---Dzur, Steven Brust ( fantasy )

---Isle of the Dead, Roger Zelazny ( science fiction )

---Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay ( fantasy )

February Total: 10 books (plus several magazines, a few newspaper articles, and a lot of fanfiction)

Year to Date: 37 books (21 new, 16 old)

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In other news, I finished a rough draft of chapter 14 of "An Ounce of Prevention" a few days ago, but I had to scrap the entire thing for pacing reasons. See, the story is hitting the part where things are happening, and I have to keep the pacing tight and quick-feeling (though really, it's very drawn out compared to some other chapters, which covered several days in one scene). And while I had some nice character interaction between Sakura and Kakashi, I was basically stalling the story dead in the water because...

Well, there are two reasons, really. First, I'm not completely sure what comes next, and second, I have mixed feelings about finishing stories. On the one hand, finishing is the point. It's a joy and a satisfaction and a relief. But on the other hand, once a story is done, those characters lose the... the urgency, I suppose, with which they inhabit my mind. And I hate letting them go and saying goodbye.

But anyway, I do know where chapter 14 needs to go, and this time I'm going to get it right. *grin*

book list, February 2008

It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in February 2008. I'm experimenting with cuts to keep from annoying people who don't want to read my blather about each book.

Usually I read a lot more than this, but I spent the second half of February watching DVDs of the new Doctor Who. I think it was more than a fair trade-off!

New: 7
---Thumbs, Toes, & Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human, Chip Walter ( nonfiction )

---Children in Colonial America, James Marten, ed. ( nonfiction )

---Mine to Possess, Nalini Singh ( romance )

---White Lies, Jayne Anne Krentz ( romance )

---Ultimate Spider-Man vol. 18, Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley, et al ( comics )

---Fullmetal Alchemist vols. 1-2, Hiromu Arakawa ( manga )

Old: 3
---Dzur, Steven Brust ( fantasy )

---Isle of the Dead, Roger Zelazny ( science fiction )

---Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay ( fantasy )

February Total: 10 books (plus several magazines, a few newspaper articles, and a lot of fanfiction)

Year to Date: 37 books (21 new, 16 old)

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In other news, I finished a rough draft of chapter 14 of "An Ounce of Prevention" a few days ago, but I had to scrap the entire thing for pacing reasons. See, the story is hitting the part where things are happening, and I have to keep the pacing tight and quick-feeling (though really, it's very drawn out compared to some other chapters, which covered several days in one scene). And while I had some nice character interaction between Sakura and Kakashi, I was basically stalling the story dead in the water because...

Well, there are two reasons, really. First, I'm not completely sure what comes next, and second, I have mixed feelings about finishing stories. On the one hand, finishing is the point. It's a joy and a satisfaction and a relief. But on the other hand, once a story is done, those characters lose the... the urgency, I suppose, with which they inhabit my mind. And I hate letting them go and saying goodbye.

But anyway, I do know where chapter 14 needs to go, and this time I'm going to get it right. *grin*