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February books

Colin Watson, Coffin, Scarcely Used
Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Colin Watson, Bump in the Night
Barry Took, Complete and Utter History of Round the Horne
Humphry Carpenter, That Was Satire That Was
Colin Watson, Hopjoy was Here
Kate Fox, Watching the English
Francis Crick, What Mad Pursuit
John O'Farrell, Isle of Wight to get Ceefax
Faye Kellerman, Blindman's Bluff
Martha Wells, City of Bones
Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle (I had forgotten that Howl's sister sold his books. No wonder he moved to another world.)
Phyllis Ann Karr, At Amberleaf Fair
Colin Watson, Blue Murder
Lois McMaster Bujold, Beguilement
William R. Barnes and Gene Ambaum, What Would Dewey Do? (My answer: divide everything in the world into 10 categories, despite this being clearly stupid. It's an amusing cartoon though.)
Mike Ripley, Angel Underground
James Gurney, Dinotopia
James Gurney, The World Beneath
Elizabeth Bear, Blood and Iron
David Langford, Starcombing
Arthur Ransome, Swallowdale
Jack London, Into the Abyss (aka Victorian Britain Starves People To Death)
Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals
Davey Moore, Dick and Dom's Guide to Life (I AM NOT ASHAMED. Embarrassed, yes, but not ashamed.)
Cindy Pon, Silver Phoenix (Liked the setting and, of course, the food! I thought the heroine was a bit generic and the writing a bit clumsy, but I enjoyed it overall. Will probably get the sequel at some point.)


February stats

Number read: 26
Of which rereads: 20

Non-fiction: 6
Of which rereads: 5

Comedy: 2
Of which rereads: 1

Mysteries: 6
Of which rereads: 5

SF/F: 6
Of which rereads: 5

YA: 2
Of which rereads: 1

Other (general fiction, children's, poetry etc): 4
Of which rereads: 3

Date: 2011-03-02 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com
I agree about the Cindy Pon - and good setting and lots of wonderful food can do a lot to compensate for other stuff, can't it?

Date: 2011-03-03 02:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shark-hat.livejournal.com
Definitely. I thought the end of the book was a bit better than the beginning- feeling less need to point things out to the reader?- so hopefully a sequel should be better as well.

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