Fiction log - July 2009

[pedanther]

Fiction books
Jenny Blackford. The Priestess and the Slave
Jasper Fforde. The Eyre Affair

Non-fiction books
Joanne Cantor. Mommy, I'm Scared: How TV and movies frighten children and what we can do to protect them

Short fiction
John Scalzi. "Pluto Tells All"
Michael Swanwick. "What Information Really Wants"
Harry Turtledove. "The House That George Built"

Poetry
Edward FitzGerald. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Náishapúr (1859 version)
Edward FitzGerald. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Náishapúr (1869 version)

Film
Hoodwinked (DVD)
Marple: They Do It With Mirrors (TV)
Marple: Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (TV; didn't finish)
Something the Lord Made (DVD)

Theatre
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)

Television serials in progress
The Last Enemy (first two episodes)

Interactive narrative
Portal


Books bought
Agatha Christie. The Complete Quin and Satterthwaite
Chris Claremont, George Lucas. Shadow Moon
Peter O'Donnell. The Silver Mistress
Simon Green. Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves
Crawford Killian. The Empire of Time
Crawford Killian. Greenmagic
Rudyard Kipling. O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling's letters to his children
Rudyard Kipling. Soldiers Three
Nicholas Meyer. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Dennis Palumbo. City Wars
Clifford D. Simak. The Visitors
Clifford D. Simak. Where the Evil Dwells
Martin Cruz Smith. Gorky Park
Robert Vardeman. Sundered Realm
Ursula Vernon. Digger: Volume 4
Ursula Vernon. It Made Sense at the Time
Cherry Wilder. Second Nature

Books borrowed
Joanne Cantor. Mommy, I'm Scared: How TV and movies frighten children and what we can do to protect them
Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov
Edward FitzGerald. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Náishapúr (omnibus of the 1859 and 1869 versions)


Top of the to-read pile
Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Brothers Karamazov

Comments

[leecetheartist.livejournal.com]

Did you enjoy The Eyre Affair? Come to think of it, what did you think of Hoodwinked?

[pedanther]

It took me a while to get into The Eyre Affair, although to be fair that might have been because I've taken so long to get to reading it that I'd already heard about all the major plot twists - the moment where it finally clicked was also from memory the first moment in the book that came as a real surprise. In the end, I enjoyed it well enough, but I'm not in any hurry to read it again, or anything else by the same author.

Hoodwinked, I liked. It wasn't much in the way of deep or subtle, but it was a lot of fun. (And unlike The Eyre Affair, I'm keeping an eye out for the sequel.)