Resolutions...

[stoutfellow]

One of my resolutions this year was to read more books than I bought. Until last week, I was staying ahead by a narrow margin.

I blew that one all to hell this week, buying no less than twenty-nine books. The full damages are under the cut.

Janet Evanovich, Three To Get Deadly; L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird; Jim Butcher, Storm Front; H. G. Wells, The Invisible Man; Simon Winchester, The Crack in the Edge of the World; Selina Rosen (ed), Bubbas of the Apocalypse; Laura Underwood, The Hounds of Ardagh; Eric Flint, 1812: The Rivers of War; Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Crystal Soldier; Andre Norton, Janus and Gods and Androids; Elizabeth Moon, The Deed of Paksenarrion; C. S. Friedman, In Conquest Born; Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten; Barbara Hambly, Fever Season; James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres; William Hope Hodgson, The Night Land and Other Perilous Romances; Eric Frank Russell, Major Ingredients; Keith Laumer, Retief in the Ruins; Michael Bishop, No Enemy But Time; Vernor Vinge, Tatja Grimm's World and Rainbow's End; Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora; Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle; Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon; Nanny Ogg's Cookbook; Peter Beagle, The Line Between; R. A. Lafferty, Not to Mention Camels.

The Winchester is the only nonfiction, unless Nanny Ogg's Cookbook can be counted as such.

Comments

[sraun]

Do you know that kinzel has all the MM Liaden stock? So if you want Crystal Dragon, or any other of their books (say, Balance of Trade), he'd be more than happy to sell you copies!

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

That's good to know. Thanks!

[xinef.livejournal.com]

Love Simon Winchester's books.

I've read several of the above:
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird; Simon Winchester, The Crack in the Edge of the World; Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Crystal Soldier; James Schmitz, The Witches of Karres; Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon;

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I read The Professor and the Madman a while ago, and liked it well enough to grab The Crack when I saw it.

[xinef.livejournal.com]

I read that one and enjoyed it too.

The first of his that I read was The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060931809). I found it fascinating. Then read Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0060838590), The Meaning of Everything (The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/019517500X), and Crack...

[xinef.livejournal.com]

(sorry, fixed an incorrect link)

re your book list

[the-blue-fenix.livejournal.com]

You're going to be busy. And entertained. All the ones I've read off that list were excellent.

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

Quite an impressive haul!

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

If you read more books than you buy, you'll eventually run out of books (unless someone is giving them to you). Running out of books would be very bad.

It sounds like you got a nice bunch of books.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I have something like 6000 books in my library; I estimate that I've read about 30% of them. My concern right now is not losing ground.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

Heh. I bought Storm Front and 1812 this past weekend, too [g]. Great minds, evidently.