Daily Archives: April 23, 2012

What I’ve Read Since Owlet Was Born, October 2011-April 2012

I have been delinquent in keeping track of my reading here on the blog for the past eight months, which is moderately disappointing to me since I use this as a reference all the time. Part of it has been lack of time to write down what I have read; part of it has been I’ve been reading fewer books because I have less time to read in the first place. Books are expensive, so my buying has been really scaled back as we are really strapped for cash; and my library doesn’t often stock the kind of books I want to read. (My mother, on the other hand, has been mailing me her copies of books we both love to read, so it’s like I have a subscription library service! Every once in a while a box with four or five books shows up in the doorstep and I work through its contents over a couple of weeks.)

So in no particular order, here’s what I remember reading, off the top of my head:

With Fate Conspire by Marie Brennan
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
Folly du Jour by Barbara Cleverly
Blood Royal by Barbara Cleverly
All Wound Up by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan
Death Comes to Pemberly by P.D. James
I am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley
The Revenant by Sonia Gensler
Jane and the Canterbury Tale by Stephanie Barron

Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron by Stephanie Barron
How Shakespeare Changed Everything by Stephen Marche
Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History by Bill Laws
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
A Bitter Truth by Charles Todd
One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire
Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear
The Mapping of Love and Death by Jacqueline Winspear
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear
A Fatal Grace by Louise Penny
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny
The Murder Stone by Louise Penny
The Brutal Telling by Louise Penny
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
The Adventures of Sally by P.G. Wodehouse

I reread:
Grand Obsession by Perri Knize
Haunted by Kelley Armstrong
Dime Store Magic by Kelley Armstrong
Industrial Magic by Kelley Armstrong

On my current TBR pile:

Goliath by Scott Westerfeld
Red Glove by Holly Black
Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear
Kingdoms of Dust by Amanda Downum

I have no doubt I’ve forgotten a dozen books, but this is better than nothing.