August book log
Aug. 31st, 2009 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julesjonesSeveral books this month. One reason is that I worked out part of why I can read the Cybook on the bus, and applied that to print books -- I glance up for a second during the page-turn flash on the Cybook, and that helps minimise motion sickness. It's not the only thing going on there, but it's enough in combination with sitting over the back axle (thank you to micavity for the tip), that I've been able to read some print books as well. Thus I can grab a print book even if I've forgotten to load some new ebooks.
Oh, and I entered 600 books into LibraryThing this month...
Gerald Durrell: The Stationary Ark
Brief review on LJ, DW and WP
James Blish: Mission to the Heart Stars
Brief review on LJ, DW and WP
Harry Harrison: The men from PIG and ROBOT
Brief review on LJ, DW and WP
James Anderson - The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy
An affectionate and funny spoof of the classic 1930s country house murder mystery, with a great many nods to the masters and mistresses. Rather too many characters and their independent but interlocking intrigues for me to keep track of what was going on, and the characters and their intrigues aren't quite interesting enough for me to not care about that. I'd probably have enjoyed it more if I'd read all of the classic mysteries alluded to. And I'm not convinced that it *is* possible to work it all out without guessing, even if I adored part of the solution to the primary mystery itself. I don't regret buying this, but I'm glad I paid remainder price rather than cover price.
LibraryThing entry
The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy (Burford Family Mysteries 1)
at Amazon UK
The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy (Burford Family Mysteries 1)
at Amazon US
John Carnell: New Writings in SF 10
Anthology series, with issue with 7 new-in-1966 stories, edited by John Carnell. To review later. [review]
WJ Burley: Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue
One in the long-running police procedural series. To review later. [review]
ETA: knew I'd forgotten one...
Harry Harrison: Plague from Space [review]
Oh, and I entered 600 books into LibraryThing this month...
Gerald Durrell: The Stationary Ark
Brief review on LJ, DW and WP
James Blish: Mission to the Heart Stars
Brief review on LJ, DW and WP
Harry Harrison: The men from PIG and ROBOT
Brief review on LJ, DW and WP
James Anderson - The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy
An affectionate and funny spoof of the classic 1930s country house murder mystery, with a great many nods to the masters and mistresses. Rather too many characters and their independent but interlocking intrigues for me to keep track of what was going on, and the characters and their intrigues aren't quite interesting enough for me to not care about that. I'd probably have enjoyed it more if I'd read all of the classic mysteries alluded to. And I'm not convinced that it *is* possible to work it all out without guessing, even if I adored part of the solution to the primary mystery itself. I don't regret buying this, but I'm glad I paid remainder price rather than cover price.
LibraryThing entry
The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy (Burford Family Mysteries 1)
at Amazon UKThe Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy (Burford Family Mysteries 1)
at Amazon USJohn Carnell: New Writings in SF 10
Anthology series, with issue with 7 new-in-1966 stories, edited by John Carnell. To review later. [review]
WJ Burley: Wycliffe and the Winsor Blue
One in the long-running police procedural series. To review later. [review]
ETA: knew I'd forgotten one...
Harry Harrison: Plague from Space [review]