Spree
or, Library Sale
So, I went to the library sale on Saturday morning.
I only managed to get the eight books.
A Tupolev Too Far – Brian Aldiss
Ring – Stephen Baxter
Out Of Sight – Elmore Leonard
The Stone Canal – Ken McLeod
Fevre Dream – George RR Martin
Memory Seed – Stephen Palmer
Lunar Descent – Allen Steele
The Wild – David Zindell
God knows when I’m going to read them all, but at 50p for a hardback and 30p for a paperback, it was just too good a deal to pass up.
Has it been that long?
Procrastination
It appears it’s been ten days since I last updated this thing, where does the time go eh?
Anyway, since I’ve been so lax of late, I thought I’d do an update this time.
Since the last entry I’ve bought four books and borrowed another four.
I’ve bought
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
Dream Brother by David Browne
R.E.M. – The Rolling Stone Files by The Editors of Rolling Stone
I’ve borrowed
The Corrections by Johnathan Franzen
Hothouse by Brian Aldiss
King of the City by Michael Moorcock
Deepsix by Jack McDevitt
I’ve currently got five books on the go.
The Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub, which is a sequel of sorts to The Talisman
American Gods by Neil Gaiman, which I’m doing a slow re-read of.
Songs of Earth and Power by Greg Bear An interesting two book fantasy series
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman Supposedly a juvenile fantasy novel. First part of a trilogy, the final part of which has just won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
R.E.M. – The Rolling Stone Files by The Editors of Rolling Stone Has articles and reviews on R.E.M. that appeared in Rolling Stone from the start of their career up to the release of the Monster album.
I finished
The Gunslinger by Stephen King Part one of the Dark Tower series, a fantasy that ties in with The Black House to some degree
Luminosity
or, it’s getting light in the mornings again
I finished Neverwhere.
I’m reading Songs of Earth and Power by Greg Bear.
Which is an omnibus collection of his two fantasy books The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage. I first read these when I was still at school (Praise be to Sinclairtown Library). I only read them because I had really enjoyed Blood Music by Bear and I decided to work my way through all of his books I could find in the Library. I think that Bear wrote some powerful Science Fiction when he was starting out, especially Blood Music, and that his later work has been terribly inconsistent. Songs of Earth and Power comes from his early burst of creativity and is an intriguing fantasy.