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[shark_hat]

September books

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, Ghost Ship
Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London
Georgette Heyer, Cotillion
Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller, and Dudley Moore, The Complete Beyond the Fringe
Dave Barry is Not Taking This Sitting Down
Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman
China Mieville, Embassytown
Robin McKinley, Pegasus
Georgette Heyer, A Civil Contract
John Grindrod (ed), Shouting at the Telly
Paul Kincaid, What It Is We Do When We Read Science Fiction
Elizabeth Bear, Chill
Diane Duane, Omnitopia Dawn
Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings
Daniel Smith, The Spade as Mighty as the Sword: the story of World War Two's Dig for Victory campaign
Georgette Heyer, Frederica
Trace Beaulieu et al, The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Amazing Colossal Episode Guide
Frances Hardinge, Fly By Night
Stephen R Brown, The Age of Scurvy
Dave Barry's Greatest Hits
Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax
Dave Barry's Guide to Guys
Kage Baker, The House of the Stag
Dave Barry's Homes and Other Black Holes
Terry Pratchett, The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents
EF Benson, Mapp and Lucia
Andrew Milligan with Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, Ooh! What a Lovely Pair: our story
Logan Pearsall Smith, Words and Idioms

September stats

Number read: 29
Of which rereads: 13

Non-fiction: 6
Of which rereads: 0

Comedy: 6
Of which rereads: 5

Mysteries: 0
Of which rereads:

SF/F: 8
Of which rereads: 1

YA: 3
Of which rereads: 1

Other (general fiction, children's, poetry etc): 6
Of which rereads: 6

Comments

[sigmonster.livejournal.com]

>Ben Aaronovitch, Rivers of London
>Georgette Heyer, Cotillion

I am apparently reading things about 29 days behind you - just read Rivers Of London and have Cotillion open now. This does not make me at all paranoid (eyeball twitches violently).

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I hope you aren't going to be stressed enough in 29 days to be reading Mercedes Lackey...

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

What did you think of RIVERS OF LONDON? I just finished listening to the audiobook, and not sure how much the reader (wasn't thrilled with his accents) influenced my response.

Also - which are the three YA and which is the one reread? I'm confused by the children's being part of "other". The Megan Whalen Turner, is one YA, Robin McKinley another and maybe your reread,I'm guessing, but is the Diane Duane YA?

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

I think it's that when I set up the stats I didn't think I read enough childrens' books to make it worth having a separate category, and it's far too much hassle to go back and change it now (and if I did, I think it would be an empty category many months.)
I was counting The Amazing Maurice as YA; it never reads as children's to me. That one's the reread. The Duane is- actually, I counted it as SFF because it's Duane, but it's more like a technothriller really.

The sequel to Rivers of London is going on my Christmas list. I like urban fantasy that isn't paranormal romance anyway, and I like police procedurals, and London, so that may have influenced me, but I thought it was good. I think my favourite thing was the setting/worldbuilding, it reminded me of Neverwhere but a bit less, er, whimsical, fantastical. I like the protag, and the plot and prose were- serviceable sounds like an insult. I didn't notice them, but in a good way, if you see what I mean? Nothing annoyed me or jolted me out of the story, it was a nice clean reading experience.

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

I haven't read The Amazing Maurice, so was just assuming it was shelved by you (mentally) where I'd seen it shelved in the stores.

I know exactly what you mean about The Rivers of London - I think I'd have avoided the few instances of being (mildly) annoyed or (very briefly) jolted out of the story had I read instead of listened to the audiobook, and like the things you like too. I'm planning on reading the sequel too.

[shark-hat.livejournal.com]

Do you have an allergy to Pratchett, is is it not having gotten round to it? Give it a go sometime (in the latter case), it's fun.

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

No allergy at all, though not the addiction that causes every new book to be read immediately either! It's on the shelf in my bedroom, actually, though I'm not *entirely* sure how it came to be there. I will now put it higher up on my to-read shelf, though that doesn't necessarily mean it'll happen soon, given how slow I am at reading these days.