Monday, April 30, 2007

Ok , the post below was all the books that I'd read before the cruise I went on last week but hadn't blogged. Now, for a week long cruise, I took 29 books and read 24 (including four from the ship's library though). Here they are:

Eternity Road by Jack McDevitt
Crystal Sage by Kara Dalkey
Suisan by Phyllis Carol Agins
Wolverine's Daughter by Doranna Durgin
Warprize, Warlord, and Warsworn by Elizabeth Vaughan
The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein
The Winter Queen by Devin Cary
Exile by Anne Logston
Devlin's Luck by Patricia Bray
Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Engines of Dawn by Paul Cook
The Warslayer by Rosemary Edgehill
The Knight, the Harp, and the Maiden by Anne Kelleher Bush
Instrument of Fate by Christie Golden
Touched by Venom by Janine Cross
Sam Gunn Forever by Ben Bova

Romances:
Whispers in the Night
When Night Falls
Entrapment
Letters to Kelly

The books I borrowed from the ship's library:
Make Love the Bruce Campbell Way by Bruce Campbell (He's not as funny as he thinks he is)
The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett (because I will always read a Pratchett novel)
We Few by David Weber and John Ringo (I hate reading book three without the first two, but it's soooo good!)
and Night Watch by Suzanne Brockman

For a total of 23 books in one week (and I think I'm missing a few).

I brought but did NOT read a dreadful book called something like American Book of the Dead that was about some guy that went nuts worrying about the possibility of nuclear war and the enemy didn't have a name but was referred to as "______ ______". I read about 30 pages and got frustrated and left it on the ship.

I also didn't read the new Tolkein book, I just wasn't in the mood for wading through his long sentences while on vacation.

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Sam Gunn Unlimited by Ben Bova
When Demons Walk by Patricia Briggs
The Sherwood Game by Esther Friesner
Touch the Dark and Claimed by Shadow by Karen Chance
Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder
Sebastian and Belladona by Anne Bishop
Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Hunting of the Last Dragon by Sherryl Jordan
Plan B, I Dare, Scout's Progress, Local Custom, Conflict of Honors, Carpe Diem, and Agent of Change by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (as well as a bunch of their short stories)
Stealing the Elf-King's Roses by Diane Duane
A Point of Honor by Dorothy Heydt
Apprentice Fantastic

Somebody's Hero by Marilyn Pappanp
Crossfire by Jenna Mills

I found my westerns as well, and read Borden Chantry, The Californios, Kilrone, Dark Canyon, Conagher, Bowdrie, and Crossfire Trail, all by Louis L'amour.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Decided to bold the SF titles I write about, at a reader's request.

One more book to add (there are more, but I can't put my hands on them):
Across the Wall by Garth Nix (I read his earlier books - Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen - because a friend loaned them to me, and loved them. Saw this in the store and couldn't resist it. It's short stories, and only one of them is in the Abhorsen Trilogy universe, but that one is REALLY good, as are several of the others. In particular, there's one about two kids in a war that's well written. There's also a choose your own adventure, which is a bit bizarre and I didn't bother reading it.)

I bought another book by Nix that's set in a different universe that I'm reading now.