recent reading #9

[adelaidesean]

So many books, so little time...

Still overloaded with boofy old blokes, and finding female thriller writers remains difficult (as opposed to female crime writers; there's a ton* of those). I have a Fred Vargas lined up soon. She is awesome, but I wouldn't call her a thriller writer, really. Same with Sarah Waters, who I've been meaning to read for years. (It was worth the wait.)

• Phobos: The Robot planet by Paul Capon (thanks Jeff!)
• Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks by Terrance Dicks (thanks Mondy!)
• Choke Point by Barry Eisler (even better than the first two in the series)
• Elidor by Alan Garner
• There was an Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly by Jeremy Holmes (cute)
• Envy the Night by Michael Koryta (a surprisingly beautiful entry in a field that's full of so much average crap--highly recommended)
• Dapper Caps & Pedal-Copters and The Annotated Wondermark by David Malki (with bonus illustrations, huzzah!)
• The Philosopher's Stone: A Quest for the Secrets of Alchemy by Peter Marshall (a bit credulous, and therefore not as good as that book on the Masons I read a while back, but contains loads of material for a new project I'm working on)
• The City & The City by China Mieville (probably the only Hugo nominee I'll get to before Worldcon, alas)
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (like Ways of Seeing but with better pictures--thanks, Scott!)
• Bride Flight by Marieke van der Pol
• Bleed for Me by Michael Robotham (awesome, his best yet)
• Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger (didn't finish--too much set-up for what was obviously going to be a long-running series)
• The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (like Envy the Night, I didn't want this to end)

* That's clearly not the right collective noun, but something witty refuses to come to me. Any suggestions?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A ton of female crime writers?

How about a 'sashay' of female crime writers.....

I've been reading lots of 30s pulp fiction.