i pre-empt my reading list post to give you...

The "You Should Write..." Meme!
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I have been remiss

I really do read an astounding amount of fic. Not always the whole fic unfortunately.... Anywho, I haven't posted a reading list in ages (possibly not since just after New Year's!) and so this could get a lot scary. I think the novel reading list is going to be a lot shorter. Heck, I'm sure of it. Anywho, unto the breach before I forget:

As a note: This isn't necessarily a rec list. I may or may not give opinions on the books and fics. This is primarily a reading list.

The Family Trade by Charles Stross - "British author Stross mixes high-tech with medieval trappings in this highly entertaining science fantasy in the "misplaced modern" mode. Reporter Miriam Beckstein, recently fired for exposing a money laundering scheme and threatened by the criminals involved, finds that staring at her mother's antique brooch can move her from contemporary America to a Viking-settled parallel universe, where she discovers her true heritage as a countess among the world-walking, goods-smuggling Clan." I was not the biggest fan of this book and at the moment I don't have a good reason for why not. However, I did finish it and I borrowed the next book to read it. My biggest issue, I think, was with some of the storyline? But the plot is so intriguing that I keep wanting to know what happens next. *shrugs* (This is the Merchant Princes series, btw.)

City of Bones by Martha Wells (marthawells) - This has got to be my 4th time re-reading this book. I like it that much. I think the only other book I've read as many times are my Mary Poppins books. Seriously. Anywho: "Khat is a Krisman..., which places him even lower on the social scale than his foreign-born partner. The two are coerced into working with the Patrician Warder, Elen, who is searching out a specific relic... Warders have certain mental powers, although overusing these powers can cause them to go mad." Every time I read this, and I mean every single time I am invariably sucked in. I keep trying to get Mom to read. :D

Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris - this is the most recent Sookie Stackhouse Book. As a random point of interest for anyone who's just now coming to the books after watching the spinoff HBO series "True Blood"...these used to be called "The Southern Vampire Novels." I'm not sure when their designation changed, or whether it was b/c of the series or b/c it just made more sense to name it after Sookie. Anywho, the book was likable enough. I devoured it quickly enough, lol, but it's telling that even though I only read this a couple of months ago I don't remember much of the plot. There is a genuine mystery that Sookie gets, unfortunately, sucked into. Some nice people that we like end up dying and/or getting hurt. I dunno. We seemed to get one of everyone in this book. Maybe in the next book it, the series, will pull itself in some more? Don't get me wrong, not at all an unenjoyable book but definitely start with the first book in the series if you're a newbie. This book is not for the uninitiated.

And I'm going to cut here b/c, as I peruse my other reading list posts I was not nearly this wordy! ( Apparently when I'm bad, I'm really bad. )