Books of the Week XI

Books Read: 2
Titles:
Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews. Another series where I didn't get to start with the first book, still at least this one is still the second (and according to the wikipedia page for the author the latest) so hopefully I'll run into the first book one of these days.  It's another urban fantasy book with a female protagonoist still I really like the setting of the story where different mythologies can co-exist, it keeps it from being too predictable, sort of educational, too.

Steeldriver by Don DeBrandt. And here I thought it was a good week for authors I haven't encountered before, but when I looked this author up, I found out he also wrote "The Closer" (writing as Donn Cortez) which I read a few weeks back. Different genre though, this book is one of his earlier works and under science fiction (a retelling of the John Henry Tall Tale myth of sorts), The Closer is more contemporary and a whole lot darker. I guess I need to keep an eye out for both names now.

Books of the Week X

Books read this (past) week: 1
Title:

Stranger Souls by Jak Koke. This is part of the Shadowrun line of books, and is actually a part of the Dragon Heart trilogy, the second and third books of which I've already read so many years ago. So long ago that I already remember bits and pieces of it, which actually gives me an excuse to read them again but haven't really had the time for. It wasn't a bad read, it's just that I'm so used to standalone stories in the series I have a hard time digesting longer works, though I'm not adverse to recurring characters with an background storyline that underlines each story, my favorite book in the series is still Black Madonna, (this book already had Roman Catholic conspiracy theories before the Da Vinci Code came along) and the characters in this book appeared in several other books in the series, whihc were all great reads.

Books of the Week IX

Books read this Week: 3
Titles:

Haunted by Kelly Armstrong. Should have finished this book last week, but with work and all, didn't get around to reading till the end until this Monday.

Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton. This should probably count as half a book read, I really liked the paranormal aspect in the first few books, but now it crosses into erotica, and I tend to skip those chapters.

Micah by Laurell K. Hamilton. This is the book that goes before Danse Macabre, sigh... another one of those episodes where I don't get to read them in order. This book was pretty short compared to the rest of the series (the latter books, anyway) plus I skipped the hot-and-heavy parts as well, so maybe this counts as a quarter-book?

Books of the Week VIII

Meh too liitle time to update this properly, will update it when I have time though (hopefully soon.)

Books read this week (or should that be last week?): 2

Titles:

The Closer by Donn Cortez. A very disturbing book (though still enjoyable) about serial killers hunting other serial killers.

Dime Store Magic by Kelly Armstrong. Getting closer to completing this series, especially since I now also have Haunted.

Books of the Week VII

Yep as figured, too busy to read any novels last week, though I did started reading a several, finished two:

Skeleton key by Anthony Horowitz. Third book in the Alex Rider series. A children's book, hey... aside from being a wizard (see: Harry Potter,) a super spy seems a good job description. Not particularly bad read, a bit predictable in some part, I'll probably like it more if I managed to read it from the start. Here's hoping I could get them all. 

Dead on my Feet by William Mark Simmons. The second book in the Chris Cséjthe (Half/Life) series, with me, of course, not having have read the first, sigh... another series I need to keep an eye out for.

Books of the Week VI

I started and finished this book this Sunday, the day before I started working, which would make it memorable in any case. I'm probably going to set aside Sundays as my reading day (hopefully) with all the work I expect to be getting in the next few weeks.

Books Read: 2

Death and Thraxas by Martin Scott. I'm counting this as two books because it's an omnibus of two other books Thraxas at the Races and Thraxas and the Elvish Isles from the Thraxas series of novels. Not a bad book for an author I've picked for the first time, I enjoy books in this particular mish-mash of genre, fantasy noir. Too bad that aside from this one, I know of only one other series that focuses on such a genre, Glen Cook's Garett P.I. series.

Books of the (last) Week V

I finally have work! I started last week , unfortunately my office does not have internet access! (Also it would be unprofessioal to use the 'net for personal reasons at work!) Which means I didn't get to update the blog about my last week's novel binge. Of course with work coming around, I really didn't get to read much, and probably not in the near future as well, oh well, the price you pay...

Books Read: 2

Sweet Myth-tery of Life by Robert Asprin. Part of the Mythadventures series of short novels. Sigh... when I linked this post to Robert asprin's wikipedia entry, I found out that he recently passed away. Not one of my favorite authors but still I have several of his books and series, in fact I have a couple of his books that I still haven't goten around to reading... he will be missed. 

Spiderlegs by Piers Anthony and Clifford A. Pickover. It's been a long time since I've read a book by Piers Anthny, one of my favorite authors when I was younger (maybe I've outgrown him...I hope not) in fact I have more than 50 of his books in my collection, certainly the most number for one author.