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- margaret mahy,
- michael swanwick,
- muppets,
- ngaio marsh,
- nicholas fisk,
- poirot,
- ps238,
- rosemary kirstein,
- sally odgers,
- sherlock holmes,
- the muppet show,
- the phantom,
- the pretender,
- ursula k le guin,
- war and peace,
- william goldman,
- william shakespeare
Fiction log - October 2010
Fiction books
Agatha Christie. Parker Pyne Investigates
Rosemary Kirstein. The Outskirter's Secret
Rosemary Kirstein. The Steerswoman
Aaron Williams. Nodwick: Haulin' Assets
Aaron Williams. PS 238: When Worlds Go Splat!
In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
Non-fiction books
(none)
Short fiction
Agatha Christie. "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding"
Agatha Christie. "Greenshaw's Folly"
Arthur Conan Doyle. "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"
Poetry
E. E. Cummings. "she being Brand"
Michael Swanwick. "Shadowfax"
Film
Despicable Me
Poirot: Hallowe'en Party (TV, re-watch)
Poirot: Lord Edgware Dies (TV)
Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia (TV)
Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (TV)
Whale Rider (DVD)
Short film
Pigeon Impossible
Theatre
Love's Magic
Television serials
Sherlock, season 1
In progress
The Muppet Show, season 3 (DVD)
The Pretender, season 2 (DVD)
Comic books in progress
Batman and Robin
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Comic books, individual issues
The Phantom #1579
Interactive narrative
Walker & Silhouette
Books bought
Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Vivien Alcock. The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
JG Ballard. Empire of the Sun
Russell Braddon. The Naked Island
Gene Brewer. K-PAX
John Burke. The Black Charade
Robert Cain. Cybernarc
Robert Cain. Cybernarc 3: Island Kill
Robert Cain. Cybernarc 5: Shark Bait
Tom Clancy. The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy. The Sum of All Fears
John Clarke. Great Interviews of the Twentieth Century
Max Allan Collins. The Pearl Harbor Murders
Susan Coolidge. The Katy Omnibus
Bernard Cornwall. Sharpe's Gold
Robertson Davies. High Spirits
Arthur Douglas. A Very Wrong Number
Rosemary Edghill. The Sword of Maiden's Tears
Stephen Fine. Molly Dear
Nicholas Fisk. Broops! Down the Chimney
Colin Forbes. The Heights of Zervos
George MacDonald Fraser. McAuslan in the Rough
Leon Garfield. The House of Cards
William Goldman. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ernest Gordon. Miracle on the River Kwai
George Dawes Green. The Caveman
Georgette Heyer. Detection Unlimited
Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. A Backward Place
Diana Wynne Jones. The Dark Lord of Derkholm
Guy Gavriel Kay. The Darkest Road
Guy Gavriel Kay. The Wandering Fire
George Kelly. The Light of Other Days
Hans Helmut Kirst. The Night of the Generals
Rosemary Kirstein. The Language of Power
Ursula K Le Guin. The Dispossessed
Joan Lindsay. Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joseph Locke. Blood & Lace Book One: Vampire Heart
Joseph Locke. Blood & Lace Book Two: Deadly Relations
Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay. Yes Minister Volume Two
Alistair MacLean, Lewis Jones. The Guns of Navarone (abridged)
Margaret Mahy. Underrunners
Ngaio Marsh. Tied up in Tinsel
Ged Maybury. Time Twister
Anne McCaffrey. Black Horses for the King
James McGee. Wolf's Lair
Sally Odgers. Aurora
John Parker. The Village Cricket Match
Alan Paton. Cry, The Beloved Country
JB Priestley. London End
JB Priestley. Out of Town
Chaim Potok. The Chosen
Philip Pullman. The Tiger in the Well
Julian Rathbone. A Spy of the Old School
Siegfried Sassoon. The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Renuka Singh (ed.). The Dalai Lama's Book of Daily Meditations
Julian Stockwin. Kydd
Frank Thomas. Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders
JRR Tolkien. The Hobbit
Jill Paton Walsh. The Bad Quarto
Jo Walton. The King's Name
Gene Wolfe. The Knight
Bob Woodward. Veil: the secret wars of the CIA 1981-1987
(bookshop closing-down sale)
Top of the to-read pile
James D Macdonald. The Apocalypse Door
Agatha Christie. Parker Pyne Investigates
Rosemary Kirstein. The Outskirter's Secret
Rosemary Kirstein. The Steerswoman
Aaron Williams. Nodwick: Haulin' Assets
Aaron Williams. PS 238: When Worlds Go Splat!
In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
Non-fiction books
(none)
Short fiction
Agatha Christie. "The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding"
Agatha Christie. "Greenshaw's Folly"
Arthur Conan Doyle. "The Adventure of the Dancing Men"
Poetry
E. E. Cummings. "she being Brand"
Michael Swanwick. "Shadowfax"
Film
Despicable Me
Poirot: Hallowe'en Party (TV, re-watch)
Poirot: Lord Edgware Dies (TV)
Poirot: Murder in Mesopotamia (TV)
Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (TV)
Whale Rider (DVD)
Short film
Pigeon Impossible
Theatre
Love's Magic
Television serials
Sherlock, season 1
In progress
The Muppet Show, season 3 (DVD)
The Pretender, season 2 (DVD)
Comic books in progress
Batman and Robin
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Comic books, individual issues
The Phantom #1579
Interactive narrative
Walker & Silhouette
Books bought
Douglas Adams. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Vivien Alcock. The Haunting of Cassie Palmer
JG Ballard. Empire of the Sun
Russell Braddon. The Naked Island
Gene Brewer. K-PAX
John Burke. The Black Charade
Robert Cain. Cybernarc
Robert Cain. Cybernarc 3: Island Kill
Robert Cain. Cybernarc 5: Shark Bait
Tom Clancy. The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October
Tom Clancy. The Sum of All Fears
John Clarke. Great Interviews of the Twentieth Century
Max Allan Collins. The Pearl Harbor Murders
Susan Coolidge. The Katy Omnibus
Bernard Cornwall. Sharpe's Gold
Robertson Davies. High Spirits
Arthur Douglas. A Very Wrong Number
Rosemary Edghill. The Sword of Maiden's Tears
Stephen Fine. Molly Dear
Nicholas Fisk. Broops! Down the Chimney
Colin Forbes. The Heights of Zervos
George MacDonald Fraser. McAuslan in the Rough
Leon Garfield. The House of Cards
William Goldman. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Ernest Gordon. Miracle on the River Kwai
George Dawes Green. The Caveman
Georgette Heyer. Detection Unlimited
Kazuo Ishiguro. The Remains of the Day
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. A Backward Place
Diana Wynne Jones. The Dark Lord of Derkholm
Guy Gavriel Kay. The Darkest Road
Guy Gavriel Kay. The Wandering Fire
George Kelly. The Light of Other Days
Hans Helmut Kirst. The Night of the Generals
Rosemary Kirstein. The Language of Power
Ursula K Le Guin. The Dispossessed
Joan Lindsay. Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joseph Locke. Blood & Lace Book One: Vampire Heart
Joseph Locke. Blood & Lace Book Two: Deadly Relations
Jonathan Lynn, Antony Jay. Yes Minister Volume Two
Alistair MacLean, Lewis Jones. The Guns of Navarone (abridged)
Margaret Mahy. Underrunners
Ngaio Marsh. Tied up in Tinsel
Ged Maybury. Time Twister
Anne McCaffrey. Black Horses for the King
James McGee. Wolf's Lair
Sally Odgers. Aurora
John Parker. The Village Cricket Match
Alan Paton. Cry, The Beloved Country
JB Priestley. London End
JB Priestley. Out of Town
Chaim Potok. The Chosen
Philip Pullman. The Tiger in the Well
Julian Rathbone. A Spy of the Old School
Siegfried Sassoon. The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Renuka Singh (ed.). The Dalai Lama's Book of Daily Meditations
Julian Stockwin. Kydd
Frank Thomas. Sherlock Holmes and the Masquerade Murders
JRR Tolkien. The Hobbit
Jill Paton Walsh. The Bad Quarto
Jo Walton. The King's Name
Gene Wolfe. The Knight
Bob Woodward. Veil: the secret wars of the CIA 1981-1987
(bookshop closing-down sale)
Top of the to-read pile
James D Macdonald. The Apocalypse Door