Books I've read in 2009

[vilakins]

I got this idea from shinyjenni: the list of books I've read in 2009. Actually, it's more accurately the list of books I've borrowed from the library as they provide a handy reading history which I've just copied and pasted. I've read a few more, but can't be brothered trying to remember them. Feel free to ask me about any.

66 books

Carpe jugulum - Terry Pratchett
Hangman's holiday - Dorothy L Sayers
An assembly such as this - by Pamela Aidan
Gaudy night - Dorothy L Sayers
Sherlock Holmes: the missing years - Jamyang Norbu
The Earthsea quartet - Ursula Le Guin
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
The last continent - Terry Pratchett
Last tango in Aberystwyth - Malcolm Pryce
Fatherland - Robert Harris
Over sea, under stone - Susan Cooper
Conrad's fate - Diana Wynne Jones
Busman's honeymoon - Dorothy L Sayers
The fifth elephant - Terry Pratchett
Enigma - Robert Harris
The lies of Locke Lamora - Scott Lynch
Pompeii - Robert Harris
The truth - Terry Pratchett
The dark is rising - Susan Cooper
Thief of time - Terry Pratchett
Greenwitch - Susan Cooper
Duty and desire - by Pamela Aidan
Alexandria - Lindsey Davis
Imperium - Robert Harris
Red seas under red skies - Scott Lynch
The last hero : a discworld fable - Terry Pratchett
Perdido Street Station - China Miéville
Night watch - Terry Pratchett
Gifts - Ursula K Le Guin
The good husband of Zebra Drive - Alexander McCall Smith
The miracle at Speedy Motors - Alexander McCall Smith
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
Voices - Ursula K Le Guin
The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents - Terry Pratchett
Mr Midshipman Hornblower - CS Forester
The wee free men - by Terry Pratchett
The sweetness at the bottom of the pie - Alan Bradley
A million open doors - John Barnes
Monstrous regiment - Terry Pratchett
Powers - Ursula K Le Guin
The unbearable lightness of being in Aberystwyth - Malcolm Pryce
Pride and prejudice and zombies - Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
The grey king - by Susan Cooper
A hat full of sky : a story of Discworld - Terry Pratchett
The scar - China Miéville
Appointment with Venus
Going postal - Terry Pratchett
Silver on the tree - Susan Cooper
The other wind - by Ursula K Le Guin
Thud! - Terry Pratchett
Tea time for the traditionally built - Alexander McCall Smith
The thief - Megan Whalen Turner
The children of Green Knowe - LM Boston
Tom's midnight garden - A Philippa Pearce
The eagle of the Ninth - Rosemary Sutcliff
Making money - Terry Pratchett
Bellwether - Connie Willis
The Queen of Attolia - by Megan Whalen Turner
Uncharted territory - Connie Willis
Wintersmith - Terry Pratchett
The lilac bus - Maeve Binchy
The king of Attolia - Megan Whalen Turner
Psion - Joan D Vinge
Darwinia - Robert Charles Wilson
The divide - Robert Charles Wilson
Blind Lake - Robert Charles Wilson (in progress)

Comments

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Things are certainly different in that one, but Pryce does have a liking for bringing old villains back in unlikely ways, and I'd say the satisfaction of book 1 isn't there. It's an interesting ride though.

The gratuitous killing of cats, as a completely unnecessary-to-the-plot aside, in the second or third (can't remember which) upset me. Aberystwyth certainly seems very much the same as it was in book 1, and you'd think it would have changed a lot.