the deep moans round with many voices

It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in September 2009. (Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions. I reserve the right to spoil all hell out of any book if spoilery bits are what I feel like talking about.)

New: 3
---The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall ( fiction )

---Duma Key, Stephen King ( fiction/horror )

---The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-Hunting in the Western World, John Demos ( nonfiction )


Old: 4
---The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )


September Total: 7 books (plus several magazines, a few newspapers, and a ridiculous amount of fanfiction)

Year to Date: 62 books (36 new, 26 old)

It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in July 2009. (Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions. I reserve the right to spoil all hell out of any book if spoilery bits are what I feel like talking about.)

New: 4
---The Empty Chair, Diane Duane ( sci-fi )

---Branded by Fire, Nalini Singh ( romance )

---Uhura's Song, Janet Kagan ( sci-fi )

---Lisey's Story, Stephen King ( fiction/horror )


Old: 0


July Total: 4 books (plus several magazines, a few newspapers, and a ridiculous amount of fanfiction)

Year to Date: 50 books (29 new, 21 old)

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I meant to read more, but I have been perniciously distracted by fanfic in general, by RemixRedux 7 in particular, and by attempting to watch streaming episodes of Heroes season 3 on Hulu over a very persnickety wireless connection -- in other words, it took me an average of three hours to watch each 45-minute episode. *sigh*

Also, I did start a couple other Star Trek novels, but either they didn't grab me or, as with Best Destiny, I was so put off by the writing that I set them down and have not yet got around to trying again. (There are only so many times I can read the phrase 'buff curls' with a straight face, for example. Diane Carey, I am looking right at you.)

It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in May 2009. (Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions. I reserve the right to spoil all hell out of any book if spoilery bits are what I feel like talking about.)

New: 7
---Envy of the Gods, John Prevas ( nonfiction - ACTIVELY DISRECOMMENDED )

---Salt and Silver, Anna Katherine ( paranormal romance )

---Vulcan's Glory, D. C. Fontana ( sci-fi )

---My Enemy, My Ally, Diane Duane ( sci-fi )

---The Vulcan Academy Murders, Jean Lorrah ( sci-fi )

---How Much for Just the Planet?, John M. Ford ( sc-fi )

---Star Trek, Alan Dean Foster, adapted from a script by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman ( film novelization )


Old: 2
---I Am Spock, Leonard Nimoy ( nonfiction )

---The Wounded Sky, Diane Duane ( sci-fi )


May Total: 9 books (plus several magazines, a few newspapers, and a ridiculous amount of fanfiction)

Year to Date: 34 books (17 new, 17 old)

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On a completely different subject, my glee at my new apartment is partially offset by my annoyance at the death of my latest pair of sneakers.

I sat down this evening at work to remove a stone from my right shoe, and noticed that I could see light inside said shoe, down near the toe. This is never a good sign. Closer investigation revealed that the join between the sole and the upper section has an irreparable tear at least an inch long. "Oh," I said, "no wonder my sock got sopping wet when it rained a few days ago."

So on Wednesday, I have to take a bus to the mall and buy new sneakers.

I think this pair lasted about 11 months. I don't really expect sneakers to make it much past a year -- I am hard on my shoes -- but I was hoping these would hold out until August. *sigh*

It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in March 2009. (Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions. I reserve the right to spoil all hell out of any book if spoilery bits are what I feel like talking about.)

New: 3
---The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them, Amy Dickinson ( memoir )

---Angels' Blood, Nalini Singh ( romance/urban fantasy )

---Princep's Fury, Jim Butcher ( fantasy )


Old: 4
---The Darkangel, Margaret Ann Pierce ( fantasy )

---A Gathering of Gargoyles, Margaret Ann Pierce ( fantasy )

---The Pearl of the Soul of the World, Margaret Ann Pierce ( fantasy )

---The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman, Mark Hempel, et al ( comics )


March Total: 7 books (plus several magazines, a few newspapers, and a ridiculous amount of fanfiction)

Year to Date: 21 books (7 new, 14 old)

It's time for the continuing adventures of Liz and her reading list! These are the books I read in February 2009. (Click on the cuts for summaries and reactions. I reserve the right to spoil all hell out of any book if spoilery bits are what I feel like talking about.)


WARNING: I have been very long-winded this month! Probably I should have taken my blather about Narnia and made a separate meta post, but I am too lazy to peel out and organize my thoughts, so you get them all muddled in with the summaries, more or less as they occurred to me.


New: 1
---Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe, Nicholas Nicastro ( nonfiction )


Old: 8
---The Northern Crusades, Eric Christiansen ( nonfiction )

---The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---The Silver Chair, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---The Horse and His Boy, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---The Magician's Nephew, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )

---The Last Battle, C. S. Lewis ( fantasy )


February Total: 9 books (plus several magazines, a few newspapers, and a ridiculous amount of fanfiction)

Year to Date: 14 books (4 new, 10 old)