Books from November
Here are the books I read in November:
1. The Eagle & the Nightingales by Mercedes Lackey (410 p.) Third in the “Bardic Voices” fantasy series
2. Dark Moon Defender by Sharon Shinn (435 p.)
3. Reader and Raelynx by Sharon Shinn (420 p.)
4. Fortune and Fate by Sharon Shinn (403 p.) The last three of the “Thirteenth House” series. Well, you already know how much I love this author…
5. Free-Range Knitter: The Yarn Harlot Writes Again by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (228 p.) One of her best, very funny. Full review is here.
6. Prince of Ill Luck by Susan Dexter (249 p.)
7. The Wind-Witch by Susan Dexter
8. The Ring of Allaire by Susan Dexter
9. The Sword of Calandra by Susan Dexter (341 p.) I’ve gushed about this author often enough. Sadly-out-of-print, great fantasy. I’ve loved them since high school.
10. The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally (300 p.) A disappointment. I thought this was going to explore how WE came to develop language, but it focuses more on the biology and inclinations of primates, with an eye to how their behavior casts light on what ours might have been in the mists of history … Interesting enough, I suppose but, NOT what I expected.
11. Deerskin by Robin McKinley (309 p)
12. Sunshine by Robin McKinley (389 p.)
13. Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley (340 p.) Then I went on a Robin McKinley binge. She doesn’t do “series” but some of her books fit together better than others. These three are more “hard-edged” than some of her others, so the tone and the horror/tragedy that occurs in each fit together. (Which isn’t to say any of them are “horror” books because I simply don’t read those–I like to sleep at night. But Sunshine is the only urban-fantasy/vampire book you’re likely ever to see on my reading list.)
14. House of Many Ways by Diana Wynne Jones (404 p.)
15. Lives of Christopher Chant by Diana Wynne Jones (230 p.)
16. Conrad’s Fate by Diana Wynne Jones (375 p.) And then, a Diana Wynne Jones binge, because she’s so much fun…
17. Knitted Jackets by Cheryl Oberle (141 p.) Patterns for knitted jackets. Full review here.
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I was just about to comment on you reading Sunshine!
It’s waiting at the library for me to pick it up, actually. For the second time - the first copy vanished before I got there.
boy, and i’m lucky to make it through 2 or 3 books a month with every thing else! Hey , i finished tannenbaum, love it! i kept finding my daughters best friend wearing it around the house this weekend (she’s 17)
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