November novel-reading

[garran]

Oh, right.

Steven Brust, Jhereg (reread)
Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days
John M. Ford, The Last Hot Time
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Lois McMaster Bujold, The Sharing Knife: Beguilement
Dan Simmons, Hyperion
Steven Brust, Yendi
Steven Brust, Teckla

All the usual stuff applies -- I'm only keeping track of novels, I'm happy to be asked my opinion of any of these, and so on. (So far, the 'getting people to ask me about books' aspect of this experiment has gone really well.)

This month included the first time since I started keeping track that I reread something, and I even that I did in preparation for my first reading of the sequels, later. This might give the impression that I'm generally a pretty forward-looking reader, but actually I seem to go through phases, depending somewhat nebulously on my mood; there are periods sometimes when the familiar is firmly in the majority. It also contained the inevitable first time that the fact of the record-keeping put me through my arts student version of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- there was a day or two early on where I couldn't decide what to read next in large part because I was, semi-consciously, trying to decide what would look best next on the list -- but it was, happily, transitory and not overwhelming.

Comments

[guthrek.livejournal.com]

I loved Jhereg (and whichever sequals to it I read).
wait, that wasn't a question.

did You love Jhereg and whatever sequals I read?

[vegetius.livejournal.com]

John M. Ford, The Last Hot Time.

As you already know, I've a high opinion of Mr. Ford's work, so I'm curious as to what you thought of The Last Hot Time.

Also, is this the first Ford novel you've read?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_quinn/]

I'm rather fond of the entirity of Brust's Draegaran works (for lack of a better term). What did you think of Hyperion? I liked later books in the series better, IIRC.

[masamage.livejournal.com]

Tell me about Pride and Prejudice! :) (I haven't read it.)

[mordath.livejournal.com]

I have two Steven Brust compilations that I've been wanting to read hugely, but I don't have the first one, and so have refrained. My next buy.com order *will* include The Book of Jhereg.

...I want to reread the Hyperion series now, too, but I think my friend still has it.

[synchcola.livejournal.com]

yay, did you buy "the sharing knife"? may i abnusticate it?