Pile o' Books

Thanks to uni last year, I accumulated a whole mess o' books for my reading pile and never got around to reading them. Sure, I fit a few in - Thud! by Terry Pratchett, Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman - but the majority sang their siren song in a teetering stack by my bedside. And then came Christmas and New Year, not very reading-friendly events. But at last I can be with my preciouseseses start reading again.

I've recently finished Talyn by the wonderful Holly Lisle (and am looking forward to Hawkspar when it comes out later this year), and Confessions of a Pod Person, a book of humorous short sf stories by Chuck McKenzie.

At the moment I'm in the middle of Altered Carbon, a very enjoyable noirish cyberpunk novel by Richard Morgan (I got this and the third book in the series, Woken Furies, for Christmas from my sister. Yay!).

Next on the "read, dammit! most coveted" section of my reading pile, in no particular order:

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (after reading Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog, how could I resist?)

The Riddle-Master's Game by Patricia McKillip

The Etched City by KJ Bishop

Medieval Lives by Terry Jones and Alan Ereira

Rynosseros, Blue Tyson, and Twilight Beach by Terry Dowling

Crash Deluxe (Parish Plessis #3) by Marianne de Pierres

Divine Endurance by Gwyneth Jones

And then I've got other books to look forward to, like the next Harry Dresden book by Jim Butcher coming out in paperback, and Laurell K Hamilton's novellite Micah, and the next Keys to the Kingdom book by Garth Nix, and scott_lynch's Lies of Locke Lamora, and a bunch of other books I noted down on scraps of paper, and must now go find.

Ah, *bookgasm* :)