Here is the result.
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Seanan's 2008 Reading List.
001. The Ruins, Scott Smith.
002. Flu, Gina Kolata.
003. Rabid Growth, James Moore.
004. Death's Dominion, Simon Clark.
005. Slither, Edward Lee.
006. Mirabile, Janet Kagen.
007. The Beloved, J.F. Gonzalez.
008. The Deadliest Strain, Jan Coffey.
009. Mr. Monk and the Two Assistants, Lee Goldberg.
010. Hellspark, Janet Kagen.
011. The Unforgiving Minutes, Mary Monica Pulver.
012. Knightfall, Mary Monica Pulver.
013. Ashes to Ashes, Mary Monica Pulver.
014. Nightmare House, Douglas Clegg.
015. To Wake the Dead, Richard Laymon.
016. The Child Garden, Geoff Ryman.
017. Original Sin, Mary Monica Pulver.
018. One Rainy Night, Richard Laymon.
019. In This Skin, Simon Clark.
020. Duma Key, Stephen King.
021. On Stranger Tides, Tim Powers.
022. Darkness Walks, Tim Waggoner.
023. Watersong, Mary Caraker.
024. Virus Clans, Michael Kanaly.
025. Little Fuzzy, H. Beam Piper.
026. Fuzzy Sapiens, H. Beam Piper.
027. The Boy Next Door, Meg Cabot.
028. Every Boy's Got One, Meg Cabot.
029. Gone to the Dogs, Susan Conant.
030. Jumper, Stephen Gould.
031. A New Leash On Life, Susan Conant.
032. Bloodlines, Susan Conant.
033. Reflex, Stephen Gould.
034. Ruffly Speaking, Susan Conant.
035. Big Boned, Meg Cabot.
036. The Farm, author not recorded, but the book was awful.
037. Making Money, Terry Pratchett.
038. Xombie, Walter Greatshell.
039. The Liadin Companion, volume one, Steve Lee and Sharon Miller.
040. In the Night Garden, Catherynne Valente.
041. Dangerous Red, Mehitobel Wilson.
042. In the Cities of Coin and Spice, Catherynne Valente.
043. Horror Films of the 1980s, Kenneth Muir.
044. Darkfall, Stephen Laws.
045. Missing Monday, author not recorded.
046. Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill.
047. City Infernal, Edward Lee.
048. The Restless Dead, Hugh Cave.
049. Moon on Water, author not recorded.
050. The Stinky Princess, Bruce Coville.
...upon realizing I'd reached fifty books and the end of February, I lost interest in this game. End determination: I read too much.
Read anything good last year?
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Lilly is on the pumpkin-fucker orange cat tree, being tall.
January 10 2009, 07:09:48 UTC 8 years ago
If you like the Conant dog mysteries, you might have a look at Nose for Trouble by Doranna Durgin (if you can find it; the hardcover was from Five Star and the mass market from Worldwide Library); I have the sequel, Scent of Danger pre-reserved when my library gets it in.
Also, I think we may have gone around this block before, but I too am a major fan of Mary Monica Pulver's Peter Brichter books; nowadays she is writing a decent series of needlecraft-centric mysteries as Monica Ferris.
Just finished Delete All Suspects, which is either the third or fourth book, I forget which, in Donna Andrews' lesser-known mystery series. The primary sleuth, Turing Hopper, is an Artificial Intelligence Personality -- but the books are published as mysteries, rather than SF, so the frameworks and conventions are mostly those of the mystery world. (That said, Turing makes a very interesting AI, done better than some of those I've seen on the SF side of the fence.)
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(this message brought to you by the fact that I have absolutely no idea why I like needlecraft so very, very much because it drives me INSANE. And this soothes me.)
(send help)
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January 10 2009, 07:36:53 UTC 8 years ago
My rule of thumb is that I'm reading too much when I forget to do one of the following:
There may be other things, but that's the ones I hit most often.
January 10 2009, 17:31:54 UTC 8 years ago
The best 10 books I read in 2008
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Do you know about Good Reads where you can rate and review and track your books read, and get updates on what friends are reading and rating if they're part of it?
ETA: And I should mention the delightful graphic novel Bookhunter, by Jason Shiga, who did the excellent webcomic Fleep about a man trapped in a phone booth.
Re: The best 10 books I read in 2008
January 10 2009, 17:32:37 UTC 8 years ago
Re: The best 10 books I read in 2008
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Still, I did read some good ones in '08.
Dragon Heat and The Black Dragon by Allyson James. Books 1 and 2 of her dragon series. Dragons who can take the forms of men and the women who love them.
Darkling and Dragon Wytch by Yasmine Galenorn. Books 3 and 4 of her Women of the Otherworld/Sisters of the Moon (series title depending on who you ask) series. Three half-human/half-fae sisters trying to save two worlds and the men who love them. Currently my favorite series.
Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Only 1-3 since 4's not in paperback yet. Ancient Greece-geek crack.
Nora Roberts' In The Garden trilogy. Three gardening women, the men who love them, and the ghost who doesn't want to share her house.
The Undead Next Door by Kerrelyn Sparks. Book 4 of currently my second-favorite series. Didn't start reading the previous books until just recently.
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