dead-tree reading 2008

[ratcreature]

It's always somewhat embarrassing for me to do the "books I read over the year" memes, because most of my reading is fanfic (as my del.icio.us bookmarks show), so there are never many books to list, and I look illiterate. Anyway, last year I read:

Earth Logic, by Laurie J. Marks
Small Favor, by Jim Butcher
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, by Mark Haddon
Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer (actually the whole saga, i.e. Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn)
The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon
Victory of Eagles, by Naomi Novik
One Virgin Too Many, by Lindsey Davis
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, by Michael Chabon
A Companion to Wolves, by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear
Magic Bites, by Ilona Andrews
Moon Called, by Patricia Briggs
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon

Also two SGA tie-in novels:
Casualties of War, by Elizabeth Christensen
Blood Ties, by Sonny Whitelaw and Elizabeth Christensen

Comments

[brownbetty]

Any standouts for you? What did you think of Magic Bites and Earth Logic, since I've actually read those?

[ratcreature]

I loved Earth Logic, so much so that I actually have delayed reading Water Logic, because that is the last that's available in the series (I'm actually clueless whether more parts are planned, do you know?), and I don't want the story to end (I have this odd thing about actually watching or reading the last parts for a series.) I got fanart ideas for it while reading too, though as usual I am really slow with realizing anything, for now they just went into my ever growing "fanart ideas" file.

Magic Bites was kind of "meh" for me. I mean, it was a quick and pleasant read, but I found that it didn't really stick in my memory, neither plot nor characters. Though this idea of magic and science coming in alternating waves was kind of neat. I might read the next parts, but I'm not that anxious about it.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay was as entertaining as everyone said it would be, and I really liked the characters. In contrast I didn't care that much for The Mysteries of Pittsburgh.

A Companion to Wolves was kind of like original slash, fun to read, and I liked the world (and it had a neat twist toward the end), but the names of the people (all the such-and-such-ulfrs) drove me crazy, because I have trouble remembering names anyway, and there were so many characters and all the names were -olfrs, and -ulfrs. And plenty had before/after wolf-bonding names too. On the bright side at least it had a list of characters at the beginning, which helped to look them up.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

There is going to be one more book in the Logic series, whenever she finishes it. :)

[ratcreature]

Yay! I figured there might be, what with there being four traditional elements, but you never know. I mean, I thought Avatar was going to have four volumes because of that and it didn't.