"So you had breakfast... and then you killed him?"
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Hello, hello, happy New Year! Have been a bit fail at the internet recently - have been skimming my flist and doing newsletters, but not commenting or replying to comments or anything like that, sorry. New Year's resolution #1: be better at commenting! Also, I made a start on reading some Yuletide fic but have only got as far as fandoms beginning with B, oh dear.
Christmas happened and it was fab. "You've won all the games and my hat doesn't fit," my sister told me glumly on Boxing Day. Although the latter is undoubtedly a tragedy, the first bit, although somewhat exaggerated, is quite a good thing if you are me. We have played a lot of games this Christmas: my family has one of those hard-disk recorder boxes, so rather than desperately watching stuff to free up tape to record more stuff, we have been blithely setting the box to record anything we might even vaguely consider watching and fishing out Careers or The Game of Life or similar instead. I did watch Wallace and Grommit, what was lovely, and The Thirty-Nine Steps, terribly fun, and that was all I really wanted to watch so there we go. Also I found a mighty trove of Big Finish books in the sale at Waterstones, hurrah. I have been reading The Inside Story and it is great, a really good read. I made flailyhands at the revelation that Paul McGann has in fact read some of the EDAs, and RTD's introduction was quite lovely and had an adorable little cartoon with it too.
I was going to do a review of the year meme of some sort, but there were an awful lot of questions and I haven't really done anything all that interesting this year anyway, so never mind. I did read 113 books last year, that was quite good. Here is a list of them:
1. Tulku - Peter Dickinson
2. Beauty - Robin McKinley
3. Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
4. DW: Asylum - Peter Darville-Evans
5. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
6. DW: The Space Age - Steve Lyons
7. DW: More Short Trips
8. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
9. DW: Tomb of Valdemar - Simon Messingham
10. Coot Club - Arthur Ransome
11. DW: The Banquo Legacy - Andy Lane and Justin Richards
12. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
13. DW: Millennium Shock - Justin Richards
14. The Devil In Amber - Mark Gatiss
15. DW: The Ancestor Cell - Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole
16. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
17. DW: The Suns of Caresh - Paul Saint
18. Time Hunter: The Winning Side - Lance Parkin
19. DW: Down - Lawrence Miles
20. DW: The Burning - Justin Richards
21. The Women's Room - Marilyn French
22. DW: The Quantum Archangel - Craig Hinton
23. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
24. DW: Casualites of War - Steve Emmerson
25. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
26. DW: Scream of the Shalka - Paul Cornell
27. Bloodsong - Melvin Burgess
28. DW: The Turing Test - Paul Leonard
29. DW: Last Man Running - Chris Boucher
30. The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brien
31. DW: Endgame - Terrance Dicks
32. In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
33. DW: Drift - Simon A. Forward
34. DW: Eye of the Tyger - Paul J. McAuley
35. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
36. DW: Father Time - Lance Parkin
37. City of Illusions - Ursula Le Guin
38. DW: Zeta Major - Simon Messingham
39. A Tale of Time City - Diana Wynne Jones
40. DW: Escape Velocity - Colin Brake
41. Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
42. DW: Venusian Lullaby - Paul Leonard
43. Mécomptes de Feés - Terry Pratchett
44. Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson
45. DW: EarthWorld - Jacqueline Rayner
46. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
47. DW: Heritage - Dale Smith
48. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - Siegfried Sassoon
49. DW: Vanishing Point - Stephen Cole
50. Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
51. DW: Invasion of the Cat-People - Gary Russell
52. The Lion Tamer's Daughter - Peter Dickinson
53. DW: Eater of Wasps - Trevor Baxendale
54. Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brien
55. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
56. DW: The Man in the Velvet Mask - Daniel O'Mahony
57. I Think The Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith
58. DW: The Year of Intelligent Tigers - Kate Orman
59. Evelina - Frances Burney
60. DW: The Murder Game - Steve Lyons
61. Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
62. DW: The Slow Empire - Dave Stone
63. Memory - Margaret Mahy
64. DW: Players - Terrance Dicks
65. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
66. DW: Dark Progeny - Steve Emmerson
67. DW: The Roundheads - Mark Gatiss
68. The Changes Trilogy - Peter Dickinson
69. The State of the Art - Iain M. Banks
70. DW: Grimm Reality - Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale
71. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
72. DW: The Final Sanction - Steve Lyons
73. The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
74. DW: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street - Lawrence Miles
75. The Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy - Lloyd Alexander
76. Against a Dark Background - Iain M. Banks
77. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
78. DW: Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Paul Magrs
79. Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
80. DW: Beyond the Sun - Matthew Jones
81. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
82. DW: Hope - Mark Clapham
83. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
84. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
85. DW: Anachrophobia - Jonathan Morris
86. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
87. DW: Sky Pirates - Dave Stone
88. The Pinhoe Egg - Diana Wynne Jones
89. DW: Trading Futures - Lance Parkin
90. Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
91. DW: Palace of the Red Sun - Christopher Bulis
92. Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks
93. DW: The Book of the Still - Paul Ebbs
94. Lady Friday - Garth Nix
95. DW: Nightshade - Mark Gatiss
96. Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
97. DW: Crooked World - Steve Lyons
98. Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
99. DW: The Also People - Ben Aaronovitch
100. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
101. DW: History 101 - Mags L. Halliday
102. Inversions - Iain M. Banks
103. DW: All-Consuming Fire - Andy Lane
104. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
105. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
106. DW: Camera Obscura - Lloyd Rose
107. The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
108. DW: Theatre of War - Justin Richards
109. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
110. Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones
111. DW: Time Zero - Justin Richards
112. DW: Salvation - Steve Lyons
113. Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds
Quite a good mix apart from the fact that 55 of them were in some way Doctor Who books, oops.
Now I am getting hungry so I shall go and eat some things.
Christmas happened and it was fab. "You've won all the games and my hat doesn't fit," my sister told me glumly on Boxing Day. Although the latter is undoubtedly a tragedy, the first bit, although somewhat exaggerated, is quite a good thing if you are me. We have played a lot of games this Christmas: my family has one of those hard-disk recorder boxes, so rather than desperately watching stuff to free up tape to record more stuff, we have been blithely setting the box to record anything we might even vaguely consider watching and fishing out Careers or The Game of Life or similar instead. I did watch Wallace and Grommit, what was lovely, and The Thirty-Nine Steps, terribly fun, and that was all I really wanted to watch so there we go. Also I found a mighty trove of Big Finish books in the sale at Waterstones, hurrah. I have been reading The Inside Story and it is great, a really good read. I made flailyhands at the revelation that Paul McGann has in fact read some of the EDAs, and RTD's introduction was quite lovely and had an adorable little cartoon with it too.
I was going to do a review of the year meme of some sort, but there were an awful lot of questions and I haven't really done anything all that interesting this year anyway, so never mind. I did read 113 books last year, that was quite good. Here is a list of them:
1. Tulku - Peter Dickinson
2. Beauty - Robin McKinley
3. Green Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
4. DW: Asylum - Peter Darville-Evans
5. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach
6. DW: The Space Age - Steve Lyons
7. DW: More Short Trips
8. The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
9. DW: Tomb of Valdemar - Simon Messingham
10. Coot Club - Arthur Ransome
11. DW: The Banquo Legacy - Andy Lane and Justin Richards
12. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
13. DW: Millennium Shock - Justin Richards
14. The Devil In Amber - Mark Gatiss
15. DW: The Ancestor Cell - Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole
16. Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
17. DW: The Suns of Caresh - Paul Saint
18. Time Hunter: The Winning Side - Lance Parkin
19. DW: Down - Lawrence Miles
20. DW: The Burning - Justin Richards
21. The Women's Room - Marilyn French
22. DW: The Quantum Archangel - Craig Hinton
23. The Summer Book - Tove Jansson
24. DW: Casualites of War - Steve Emmerson
25. The Prestige - Christopher Priest
26. DW: Scream of the Shalka - Paul Cornell
27. Bloodsong - Melvin Burgess
28. DW: The Turing Test - Paul Leonard
29. DW: Last Man Running - Chris Boucher
30. The Mauritius Command - Patrick O'Brien
31. DW: Endgame - Terrance Dicks
32. In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
33. DW: Drift - Simon A. Forward
34. DW: Eye of the Tyger - Paul J. McAuley
35. Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami
36. DW: Father Time - Lance Parkin
37. City of Illusions - Ursula Le Guin
38. DW: Zeta Major - Simon Messingham
39. A Tale of Time City - Diana Wynne Jones
40. DW: Escape Velocity - Colin Brake
41. Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan
42. DW: Venusian Lullaby - Paul Leonard
43. Mécomptes de Feés - Terry Pratchett
44. Lark Rise to Candleford - Flora Thompson
45. DW: EarthWorld - Jacqueline Rayner
46. I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith
47. DW: Heritage - Dale Smith
48. Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man - Siegfried Sassoon
49. DW: Vanishing Point - Stephen Cole
50. Last and First Men - Olaf Stapledon
51. DW: Invasion of the Cat-People - Gary Russell
52. The Lion Tamer's Daughter - Peter Dickinson
53. DW: Eater of Wasps - Trevor Baxendale
54. Desolation Island - Patrick O'Brien
55. Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
56. DW: The Man in the Velvet Mask - Daniel O'Mahony
57. I Think The Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith
58. DW: The Year of Intelligent Tigers - Kate Orman
59. Evelina - Frances Burney
60. DW: The Murder Game - Steve Lyons
61. Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
62. DW: The Slow Empire - Dave Stone
63. Memory - Margaret Mahy
64. DW: Players - Terrance Dicks
65. Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens
66. DW: Dark Progeny - Steve Emmerson
67. DW: The Roundheads - Mark Gatiss
68. The Changes Trilogy - Peter Dickinson
69. The State of the Art - Iain M. Banks
70. DW: Grimm Reality - Simon Bucher-Jones and Kelly Hale
71. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
72. DW: The Final Sanction - Steve Lyons
73. The Ladies of Grace Adieu - Susanna Clarke
74. DW: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street - Lawrence Miles
75. The Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy - Lloyd Alexander
76. Against a Dark Background - Iain M. Banks
77. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
78. DW: Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Paul Magrs
79. Blue Mars - Kim Stanley Robinson
80. DW: Beyond the Sun - Matthew Jones
81. Daniel Deronda - George Eliot
82. DW: Hope - Mark Clapham
83. Storm Front - Jim Butcher
84. Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
85. DW: Anachrophobia - Jonathan Morris
86. The Big Over Easy - Jasper Fforde
87. DW: Sky Pirates - Dave Stone
88. The Pinhoe Egg - Diana Wynne Jones
89. DW: Trading Futures - Lance Parkin
90. Throne of Jade - Naomi Novik
91. DW: Palace of the Red Sun - Christopher Bulis
92. Feersum Endjinn - Iain M. Banks
93. DW: The Book of the Still - Paul Ebbs
94. Lady Friday - Garth Nix
95. DW: Nightshade - Mark Gatiss
96. Fool Moon - Jim Butcher
97. DW: Crooked World - Steve Lyons
98. Black Powder War - Naomi Novik
99. DW: The Also People - Ben Aaronovitch
100. Suite Francaise - Irene Nemirovsky
101. DW: History 101 - Mags L. Halliday
102. Inversions - Iain M. Banks
103. DW: All-Consuming Fire - Andy Lane
104. Ella Minnow Pea - Mark Dunn
105. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
106. DW: Camera Obscura - Lloyd Rose
107. The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde
108. DW: Theatre of War - Justin Richards
109. Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
110. Charmed Life - Diana Wynne Jones
111. DW: Time Zero - Justin Richards
112. DW: Salvation - Steve Lyons
113. Redemption Ark - Alastair Reynolds
Quite a good mix apart from the fact that 55 of them were in some way Doctor Who books, oops.
Now I am getting hungry so I shall go and eat some things.
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Date: 6 Jan 2009 14:17 (UTC)I bet!
I'm really loving the Keys to the Kingdom series - every book brings in all these fantastic new elements, and yet it all seems to fit together. Very impressive!
Yes, they are excellent. I've made sure to re-read the preceding books before reading each new one...
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Date: 8 Jan 2009 13:46 (UTC)no subject
Date: 8 Jan 2009 13:48 (UTC)