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23 Oct 2009, 7:35 pm

Years Best SF 13 (Edited by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer)

Anthology of best science fiction short stories



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23 Oct 2009, 7:48 pm

A Lion Among Men-Gregory Maguire

3rd in series:
Wicked
Son of a Witch
A Lion Among Men

Glinda the Good Witch is a ditz
Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West is a student revolutionary and Animal rights activist and has AS traits
The Wizard of Oz is a despotic tyrant
The Cowardly Lion's name is Brrr

great fantasy read -he really fleshes out "The Wizard of Oz"


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23 Oct 2009, 10:40 pm

I usually have about five books on the go:

Just finishing The Fionavar Tapestry for the umpteenth time
Just picked up Vanity Fair to see if it is better than the last time I tried
Mansfield Park is waiting to be opened, as I need to read it for a play in January
Have started The Tale of Edgar Sawtelle and Queer Fear

On deck I have A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and The Halifax Connection

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23 Oct 2009, 11:29 pm

Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin (an author that I really liked)



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24 Oct 2009, 5:11 am

I'm reading 'Clay' by David Almond, 'Noughts And Crosses' by Malorie Blackman, and 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins.


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24 Oct 2009, 5:53 am

I'm reading "Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne" in the original French.


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24 Oct 2009, 4:27 pm

I'm now reading "Dragon" by Clive Cussler.

Before that it was;

"Blaze" by Stephen King
"Doctor Who - Made of Steel" by Terrance Dicks (a bedtime book - two pages and I'm asleep)
"Raising a Left-Brained Child in a Right-Brained World" by Katharine Beals PhD. (I reviewed it here).


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25 Oct 2009, 5:02 am

Winds of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson


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27 Oct 2009, 1:25 pm

Does the Onion's 'Our Dumb Century' count?

If not, then it defaults to The Shadow Out of Time (and other stories) by H.P. Lovecraft.



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28 Oct 2009, 1:20 am

The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington



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10 Feb 2010, 5:55 pm

Currently, I'm working my way through Norman Solomon's The Talmud: A Selection.



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10 Feb 2010, 6:06 pm

The Monster of Florence non-fiction by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi. After reading this I have serious doubts as to whether Amanda Knox has gotten a fair trial or whether she should have even been charged. The book is not about her btw, but about the investigation of a still unsolved string of murder and mutilation. I have just started 1491 by Charles C. Mann.


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10 Feb 2010, 6:18 pm

Currently reading "Brother Odd", the third book in Dean Koontz's "Odd Thomas" Trilogy.

They're quite good.


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