Peeling the Onion, by Günter Grass
How to Suppress Women’s Writing, by Joanna Russ
Life of Frederick Douglass
Elizabeth I, by Christopher Haigh
Chicks Dig Time Lords, edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O’Shea
Fiction (non-sf) 6 (YTD 7)
Red Plenty, by Francis Spufford
Resurrection Men, by Ian Rankin
A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four, by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
SF (non-Who) 7 (YTD 10)
The Mahābhārata
Irish Tales of Terror, ed. Peter Haining
Lightborn, by Tricia Sullivan
Zoo City, by Lauren Beukes
The Prodigal Troll, by Charles Coleman Finlay
The Book of Lost Tales, Vol II, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, by J.K. Rowling
Doctor Who (fiction) 4 (YTD 10)
The Jade Pyramid, by Martin Day
The Hounds of Artemis, by James Goss
Short Trips, edited by Stephen Cole
Birthright, by Nigel Robinson
Comics 1 (YTD 2)
Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, by Bryan Lee O’Malley
Page count ~6,500 (YTD ~10,900)
5/23 (YTD 7/39) by women (Russ, Thomas/O’Shea, Sullivan, Beukes, Rowling)
3/23 (YTD 4/39) by PoC (Douglass, authors of Mahābhārata, O’Malley)
Owned for more than a year: 8 (Irish Tales of Terror, The Prodigal Troll, Peeling the Onion, Resurrection Men, Short Trips, Birthright, Elizabeth I, the Mahābhārata).
Rereads: 4/23 (4 x Sherlock Holmes); YTD 7/39
Best book of the month: How to Suppress Women’s Writing
Programmed reads: 13½ from 13 lists
a) Peeling the Onion (non-fiction in order of entry)
c) How to Suppress Women’s Writing, Life of Frederick Douglass (non-fiction by popularity on LJ poll)
f) Complete Sherlock Holmes (first half) (non-genre fiction by popularity on LJ poll)
g) Irish Tales of Terror (sf anthologies in order of entry)
h) The Prodigal Troll (sf in order of entry)
i) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (sf by popularity among LT readers)
l) Birthright (Virgin New Adventures, in order)
n) Chicks Dig Time Lords (New Who books in order of LT popularity)
o) Short Trips (Old Who books in order of LT popularity)
p) Book of Lost Tales II (History of Middle Earth, in order)
q) Resurrection Men (Rankin’s Rebus novels, in order)
r) Elizabeth I (Tudors and Ireland)
s) The Mahābhārata (Books by PoC in order of entry)
Coming next, possibly:
The Janus Conjunction by Trevor Baxendale (started)
The Fall of the House of Usher: And Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (started)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (started)
The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides (started, put aside when my copy fell apart, will get back to it)
The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson
Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2007, ed. Richard Horton
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (if I can find it, otherwise Great Expectations by Charles Dickens)
The Essential Rumi
The Miracle Visitors, by Ian Watson
The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Lays of Beleriand, by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Song for Arbonne, by Guy Gavriel Kay
Elizabeth’s Irish Wars, by Cyril Falls
Matrix, by Robert Perry
Night of the Humans, by David Llewellyn
Iceberg, by David Banks
The Onion’s Our Dumb World: 73rd Edition: Atlas of the Planet Earth
In the Heart of the Desert, by John Chryssavgis
Toujours Tingo, by Adam Jacot de Boinod
A Question of Blood, by Ian Rankin
“They’re very firm.”
“What are you saying?”
“Oh, NOTHING…”