December 2009 book log

Books for December:

James Anderson -- The Affair of the Mutilated Mink
Robert Silverberg -- To The Land of the Living
John Carnell -- New Writings in SF 12
Isaac Asimov -- The Union Club Mysteries (actually read on and off over the last 6 months)
Arthur C Clarke -- Glide Path
Martin H Greenberg and John Helfers -- Future Crimes
Peter Anghelides -- Another Life (Torchwood 1)

All with reviews or brief comments posted during December.

2009 book log -- the full list

So, the books for 2009... Not quite a book a week, at 51 books (if you count the re-read both times), but a distinct improvement on the last few years, I think. Getting into reading on the bus to and from work has made an enormous difference in the amount I'm reading.

In the first half of the year a lot of these were ebooks on my Cybook, but I then worked out why I was able to read the Cybook on the bus without feeling sick and applied that to print books. And in June/July we moved into the new house, and started unpacking boxes that had been in storage for two/ten years, and I started reading some of the books that were coming out of boxes, so the Cybook has been sadly neglected of late.

I didn't write reviews of all of these, but I managed to write at least brief notes on most of them, and have actually kept a full log, so that I know what I've been reading. I hope the reviews have entertained and/or been useful to some of you.

( the 2009 book list )

wordage

Visitors finally went on Sunday evening, and I got in a whole 191 words on L&M3 before collapsing into bed.

Nothing for fiction on Monday and Tuesday, but I've been making notes for an essay post, and last night wrote the review of "Another Life", so I have at least been putting in 250 words a day on something constructive. Nothing tonight, because I got home late and have spent the evening putting together my 2009 book log summary, which was a useful thing to do but does not count as writing. (It mostly counts as copy-n-paste...) Going to be sensible and go to bed now, because at this point I'm tired enough to be starting a headache.

Currently reading: EC Tubb -- Veruchia