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thelittledogWhat have I been reading lately?
Thinking back, and in no particular order, The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein, from Ian Sales' Mistressworks list. CJ Cherryh's Cyteen, ditto. Monissaw and I were supposed to be reading books from this list in concert, but I read Dream Years before her copy even arrived, then she took one look at Cyteen and ran and hid inside The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. I saw a copy of that in the local bookshop at the weekend, but it was hardback and I'm cheap. Apparently the paperback will be out in January 2014.
We haven't picked another book from the list yet. Slackers.
Three books by Winifred Holtby: The Crowded Street, South Riding and (just finished today) The Land of Green Ginger. By coincidence, I also heard a Holtby short being read on Radio Four Extra. It was called 'Why Herbert Killed His Mother'. That counts as a kind of reading, right?
What else? Knifer by Ronnie Thompson. Last year's Mammoth Book of Best New SF edited by Gardner Dozois. It was #25. #26 will be out here soon. Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story: The Heroic Account of How Pitch Picciotto Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers and Led His Men to Safety by Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto. Not often is the title longer than the actual book. Anatomy of an Epidemic by Max Morgan-Witts and Gordon Thomas, about the detection of the bacterium responsible for Legionnaires' Disease.
James Tiptree Jr's Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. Real name Alice Sheldon. Let's do a little happy dance here for this book. *dances*
The unintentionally hilarious Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women, edited by Mike Ashley. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, edited ditto (will the real Mike Ashley stand up please? two books of his I've read within days of each other and I'd never heard of the man before).
One reread: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To..., reread in the hope it might make more sense to me this time round. And, finally, a crasht and burnt: Principles of Angels by Jaine Fenn. Flicking through it just now to see if I could find the page where I gave up (can't), I noticed a reference to an establishment called the Exquisite Corpse. Synchronicity.
Oh, and I read Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, which came in through the door as my dad's book group book. He's gone out the door five minutes ago to discuss it with the others, and will return later with its replacement. Dark Matter is about Arctic explorers, which is what grabbed my interest.
Possibly there've been others, but that's all I can remember/find on the bedroom floor right now.
Thinking back, and in no particular order, The Dream Years by Lisa Goldstein, from Ian Sales' Mistressworks list. CJ Cherryh's Cyteen, ditto. Monissaw and I were supposed to be reading books from this list in concert, but I read Dream Years before her copy even arrived, then she took one look at Cyteen and ran and hid inside The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. I saw a copy of that in the local bookshop at the weekend, but it was hardback and I'm cheap. Apparently the paperback will be out in January 2014.
We haven't picked another book from the list yet. Slackers.
Three books by Winifred Holtby: The Crowded Street, South Riding and (just finished today) The Land of Green Ginger. By coincidence, I also heard a Holtby short being read on Radio Four Extra. It was called 'Why Herbert Killed His Mother'. That counts as a kind of reading, right?
What else? Knifer by Ronnie Thompson. Last year's Mammoth Book of Best New SF edited by Gardner Dozois. It was #25. #26 will be out here soon. Last Man Down: The Fireman's Story: The Heroic Account of How Pitch Picciotto Survived the Collapse of the Twin Towers and Led His Men to Safety by Richard 'Pitch' Picciotto. Not often is the title longer than the actual book. Anatomy of an Epidemic by Max Morgan-Witts and Gordon Thomas, about the detection of the bacterium responsible for Legionnaires' Disease.
James Tiptree Jr's Her Smoke Rose Up Forever. Real name Alice Sheldon. Let's do a little happy dance here for this book. *dances*
The unintentionally hilarious Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite. The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women, edited by Mike Ashley. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF, edited ditto (will the real Mike Ashley stand up please? two books of his I've read within days of each other and I'd never heard of the man before).
One reread: Joanna Russ's We Who Are About To..., reread in the hope it might make more sense to me this time round. And, finally, a crasht and burnt: Principles of Angels by Jaine Fenn. Flicking through it just now to see if I could find the page where I gave up (can't), I noticed a reference to an establishment called the Exquisite Corpse. Synchronicity.
Oh, and I read Dark Matter by Michelle Paver, which came in through the door as my dad's book group book. He's gone out the door five minutes ago to discuss it with the others, and will return later with its replacement. Dark Matter is about Arctic explorers, which is what grabbed my interest.
Possibly there've been others, but that's all I can remember/find on the bedroom floor right now.
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