Here’s the latest additions to my stack of books, acquired since the last posting.
From the free books outside Michael’s Books
- The Urth of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe — I’m told Wolfe writes fantasy that I would like and this is supposedly the best one.
- Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley
- 1001 Ways to Be Romantic, Gregory J. P. Godek
- The Far Call, Gordon R. Dickson
- The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Second Edition, Volume 1
- A Treasury of the World’s Great Speeches, Houston Peterson, editor
- Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice, Charles E. Bressler — I figure if I ever read this or my other lit-crit text that it can only improve my reading and reviewing.
- The Russia House, John le Carré
- Overload, Arthur Hailey — At one point big thick books like this from Hailey and Michener were all the rage, except I don’t think I’ve ever read one.
- Foundation, Isaac Asimov — I read this years ago but stupidly gave away the book.
- Foundation’s Edge, Isaac Asimov
- City of Illusions, Ursula K. LeGuin
- Beyond the Fall of Night, Arthur C. Clarke and Gregory Benford
- The Unreasoning Mask, Philip José Farmer
- Soldier, Ask Not, Gordon R. Dickson
- Lost Dorsai, Gordon R. Dickson
- The Pearl, John Steinbeck
The following two books arrived as e-books from Tor through their Watch the Skies promotion. Sign up for the newsletter and they send you one e-book from their catalog every week for twelve weeks.
- Farthing, Jo Walton — I really wanted to read this book anyway, since I’ve heard such good things about the follow-up, Ha’Penny
- Crystal Rain, Tobias Buckell — Also really wanted to read this because I heard the follow-ups were so good. However, I won’t be reading the e-book because…
And one order from Amazon. On my goals for the year, I said I would read twelve SF/F books published since December 2007. I’ve read two so far. Plus, I set a goal of completing three by 11 April for a mentoring program I do. So that meant I couldn’t go to my current pile, I had to get something new. Bright of the Sky qualifies since it’s newly out in paperback this year. (I swear it’s not cheating!)
- Bright of the Sky, Kay Kenyon — I met her when she made an unannounced stop to sign books at my workplace last year. She’s also semi-local. Washington State represent!
- Bad Monkeys, Matt Ruff — I wanted the free shipping, so I added two more books from my Wish List. Ruff is also local! Seattle represent!
- Crystal Rain, Tobias Buckell — Dammit! Now they send it to me free, after I’ve already bought it!
