Zoe ,'Bushwhacked'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Poisoned Lives: English Poisoners and Their Victims by Katherine Watson.
Excellent, excellent book: one of those astonishing social histories that take a tiny fragment of a society and use it to shed light on the society as a whole. Also, poison.
I can't recall any fiction that had me dancing up and down. Okay, the new Laurell K. H produced a Dance of Rage, but that doesn't count.
I'm terrible about reading books in the same year they're published.
Me too, but for me it is either because I buy stuff and then let them sit while I read something I bought a couple of years ago or because I wait for them to get the the bargain rack. I almost always buy hardcovers.
ita, not only is it new -- it's about vampires.
I haven't read it -- Cybervixen says that it's good.
Oh, I can't wait. Cool.
It's nice to know readers more avid than I don't operate in a much more timely fashion -- I was flabbergasted at the idea of "keeping up."
Bought A Million Little Pieces? Get your money back.
Thank goodness that you don't have to "keep up" with books!
I discovered the Chalion books in 2005, read Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, discoverd the Song of Ice and Fire. . . what else did I read?
I actually spent lots of 2005 NOT reading. This is fairly unusual for me.
ita, not only is it new -- it's about vampires.
ears perk up
Well then, I guess I'll be adding that to the list.
I think the best book I read in 2005 was probably Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. Although I think I enjoyed Martha Wells' Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy more.
Once I got to the end, I really respected Elizabeth Bear's Hammered trilogy, although I didn't like them as much as I wish I did.
There's a new OEB? Hallelujah! And here I've got a Borders gift card burning a hole in my purse. I'm liking Elizabeth Lynn's "Dragon's Treasure," but I've always enjoyed her humanist almost-utopias.
I officially got a big kick out of "Olympos" by Dan Simmons. It made me want to go read some background on Greek mythology. Strangely I had no such desire to explore Proust or recall Shakespeare.
I'm currently reading Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. I started it in 2005. I'll probably finish it in 2007, at this rate. I do like it, though.
Has Anasi Boys been mentioned? I don't recall that it has. It should have been, though. Loved it.