desfontaines ([info]desfontaines) wrote,
@ 2008-12-31 14:13:00
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Books 2008!
Wow. I read a lot more than the last couple of years. But then I got completely distracted by the near entirety of Elfquest comics online. Not as pleasant as seeing them on paper in front of me, but I'm not willing to spend hundreds of dollars on them to have my own copies. And then I made the silly mistake of wiki'ing "Wendy Pini" and discovered Masque of the Red Death (which is really, really pretty if you have no problems with gorgeous gay guys).

Anyhow --

1. Searching for Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
2. Calling on Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
3. Aerie - Mercedes Lackey
4. Eldest - Christopher Paolini
5. Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
6. Hellspark - Janet Kagan
7. Intelligent Thought: Science Versus the Intelligent Design Movement - John Brockman (ed.)
8. Masters of Flux & Anchor (Soul Rider Book 3) - Jack Chalker
9. Fuzzy Sapiens - H. Beam Piper
10. Fuzzies and Other People - H. Beam Piper
11. Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls
*12. Across the Nightingale Floor - Lian Hearn
*13. Grass For His Pillow - Lian Hearn
*14. Brilliance of the Moon - Lian Hearn 

 * I really liked this ninja vs. samurai trilogy!  The sequel, #19, was not so great (I can take some tragedy, but when this went a bit far).  The prequel, #27, was good!
 
15. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream - Barbara Ehrenreich
16. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why - Bart D. Ehrman
17. You Slay Me - Katie MacAlister
18. The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
19. Harsh Cry of the Heron - Lian Hearn
20. 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson
21. Fire Me Up - Katie MacAlister
*22. The Fairy Godmother - Mercedes Lackey 

  *I think that the 500 Kingdoms series is Mercedes Lackey's best stuff.  It's just sheer fun without the teenage angst and improbability of the Valdemar books.  The improbability is there, but the whole world is based on a magic system that pushes for fairy tale endings (both the happily ever after kind and the doom and gloom).  Jody and I are getting any of this series when it makes paperback - waiting for the fourth one to do so!
 
23. The Sandman: The Doll's House - Neil Gaiman
24. The Sandman: Dream Country - Neil Gaiman
*25. The Corset Diaries - Katie MacAlister 

 *This was one of my favorites of all the Katie-Crack books (as Jody and I call them) I read this year.  Hip-deep sarcasm is a good thing!  And the setting -- filming a Victorian-era reality TV show, something like "Frontier House" -- too funny!
 

26. Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
*27. Heaven's Net is Wide - Lian Hearn
*28. One Good Knight - Mercedes Lackey
*29. Fortune's Fool - Mercedes Lackey 

  * The ninja-samurai prequel mentioned before plus more Tales of the 500 Kingdoms
 

30. Light My Fire - Katie MacAlister
31. Holy Smokes - Katie MacAlister
32. Playing With Fire - Katie MacAlister
33. East - Edith Pattou
*34. Hard Day's Knight - Katie MacAlister 
 
*My other favorite Katie-Crack -- this one set at a world-wide jousting tournament at a Ren Faire.
 
35. Neverwhere - Neil Gaiman
36. Magic Lost, Trouble Found - Lisa Shearin
*37. Raising Abel - W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear 

 *Jody got one of the "People of the ****" stone-age books.  I started looking up things about the authors, and I discovered this book.  The general premise is that scientists had gotten their hands on some Neanderthal DNA and cooked up some babies!  Now the extreme Christian Right is out to kill 'em all!  I picked the book up at the library around 12:30.  Sat down at a Chinese buffet for the next couple of hours with it, devouring much more of it than the food.  Then took it home and continued reading until it was done, near 11 PM. 
 

38. Good Time Girls of the Alaska-Yukon Gold Rush - Lael Morgan
39. Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy - Barbara Ehrenreich
40. Men in Kilts - Katie MacAlister
41. Marley & Me - John Grogan
42. Summer King, Winter Fool - Lisa Goldstein
43. The $64 Tomato - William Alexander
44. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation: Volume 1, The Pox Party - M. T. Anderson
45. The Betrayal: The Lost Life of Jesus: A Novel - Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear
46. The Time it Never Rained - Elmer Kelton
47. On a Pale Horse - Piers Anthony
48. Bearing an Hourglass - Piers Anthony
49. With a Tangled Skein - Piers Anthony
50. Ain't Myth-Behaving - Katie MacAlister
51. Improper English - Katie MacAlister
52. Star Trek: Final Frontier - Diane Carey
53. Wielding a Red Sword - Piers Anthony
54. Being a Green Mother - Piers Anthony
55. My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding - ed. P.N. Elrod
56. My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon - ed. P.N. Elrod
*57. Promise of the Wolves - Dorothy Hearst 

 *I don't know what drew me to pick this one up off the new-book rack at the library, but the jacket made it sound interesting.  Ended up being very, very good!  Jody and I have agreed to buy it soon, plus the other books that are forthcoming (it's supposedly a trilogy).
 

*58. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer
 
*Devoured in an afternoon.  It was actually a fun book!  Movie sucked, though.
 
59. For Love of Evil - Piers Anthony
*60. The Snow Queen - Mercedes Lackey 

 *Most recent of the 500 Kingdoms.
 
61. Talking to Dragons - Patricia C. Wrede
*62. Prince Ombra - Roderick MacLeish 

 *An ex-boyfriend of mine, long, long ago, would pass really good books on to me, insisting that I read them.  This was the one that I remembered was good.  Found a used copy, free shipping, on Amazon.com over Black Friday weekend!  It was better than I remembered. :)

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[info]rjlona
2008-12-31 08:20 pm UTC (link)
Oh, I used to love the Incarnations of Immortality series. I passed all of mine on to a friend as a gift several years ago.

How was Marley & Me?

Also, I just got Neverwhere from Netflix to watch tonight!

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[info]desfontaines
2009-01-01 03:56 pm UTC (link)
It was cute, mildly funny.

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ok...
[info]kweston
2009-01-02 01:29 pm UTC (link)
*58. Twilight - Stephanie Meyer

*Devoured in an afternoon. It was actually a fun book! Movie sucked, though.


I'm with you on this one...loved the book, if i had plenty of time one day was enough, but read it in 3. Which for me is quick. movie lacked alot of the info and half of it was backwards. Now i wanna know how they are going to work Book 2 "new moon" out since they didnt explain alot of the stuff that happened in Twilight to lead up to New Moon.

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Re: ok...
[info]desfontaines
2009-01-02 10:41 pm UTC (link)
I'll have to read it soon! And completely ignore any movie-going on it. Besides, I was poking my nose around online and it sounded like the studio wanted to ditch the guy playing Jacob because he was "too young" and not "filled out enough" to play a werewolf. Or something like that.

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Re: ok...
[info]kweston
2009-01-03 01:18 pm UTC (link)
yeah, i read that, they fired the first directer and hired on a new guy, i guess he's the guy that did the golden compass. I guess its a good thing, from what i've read the script for Twilight was way closer to the book and the directer cut a ton of it. So hopefully new moon will be more true to form, and maybe even have a flash back on twilight to fill in any gaps. Jacob grows massivly from twilight to new moon...should be interesting, i know the guy that played him is trying to bulk up to save his job, not sure how much he can bulk up though.

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Hmm
[info]matthiasvw
2009-01-08 04:01 pm UTC (link)
Have you then, perchance, considered keeping a running list on LibraryThing?

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Re: Hmm
[info]desfontaines
2009-01-09 09:41 pm UTC (link)
I took a peek at what LibraryThing does just now, and it doesn't look like it's really useful for that sort of a function. And I'm not interested in spending the money for it, either.

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