https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/ pedanther - Dreamwidth Studios Fri, 01 May 2026 01:28:29 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios pedanther personal https://v2.dreamwidth.org/10886900/689574 https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/219744.html Fri, 01 May 2026 01:28:29 GMT https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/219744.html <strong>Fiction books</strong><br />Peter S Beagle. <i>The Last Unicorn</i> (e)<br />Marshall Browne. <i>The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders</i><br />William Gibson. <i>Neuromancer</i><br />Max Gladstone. <i>Three Parts Dead</i> (e)<br />James McGee. <i>Wolf's Lair</i><br />Caroline Stevermer. <i>A College of Magics</i> (re-read)<br /><br /><strong>In progress</strong><br />Antony Johnston. <i>The Dog Sitter Detective</i><br /><br /><strong>Abandoned</strong><br />James P Blaylock. <i>The Last Coin</i> (e)<br />Olaf Stapledon. <i>Last and First Men</i><br /><br /><strong>Non-fiction books</strong><br />Erik Larson. <i>Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania</i><br />MV Woodgate. <i>St Vincent de Paul</i><br /><br /><strong>In progress</strong><br />John Green. <i>The Anthropocene Reviewed</i> (e)<br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/219744.html#cutid1">short, screen, and stage</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/219744.html#cutid2">books bought and borrowed</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><strong>Top of the to-read pile</strong><br />Jack Weatherford. <i>Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World</i> (e)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pedanther&ditemid=219744" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/219744.html antony johnston fiction log wicked the princess bride dorothy l sayers: fanworks zombies run peter s beagle les miserables: adaptations max gladstone the other avengers: fanworks books bought: none natural six william gibson sherlock holmes: fanworks donald hall terry pratchett: fanworks erik larson babylon 5 the matrix john green dorothy j heydt tron james p blaylock catherine louisa pirkis ursula vernon caroline stevermer casablanca triangle and robert oz: adaptations olaf stapledon the mummy ridley scott charles dickens public 0 https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/201662.html Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:29:01 GMT https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/201662.html <strong>Fiction books</strong><br />Steven Carroll. <i>Death of a Foreign Gentleman</i><br />Uri Orlev, tr. Hillel Halkin. <i>The Island on Bird Street</i><br />Mordecai Richler. <i>Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang</i><br />Tom Scioli. <i>Godzilla's Monsterpiece Theatre</i> (e)<br />Arthur Upfield. <i>The New Shoe</i> (e)<br />Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. <i>Asadora!</i> volume 1<br />Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. <i>Asadora!</i> volume 2<br />Jules Verne, tr. FP Walter. <i>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas</i> (e)<br /><br /><strong>In progress</strong><br />Charles Dickens. <i>Little Dorrit</i> (e)<br /><br /><strong>In hiatus</strong><br />Cory Doctorow. <i>Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town</i> (e)<br />William Morris. <i>The Well at the World's End</i> (e)<br />Julian Rathbone. <i>The Last English King</i><br />Helen Simonson. <i>Major Pettigrew's Last Stand</i> (e)<br /><br /><strong>Picture books</strong><br />Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. <i>The Grizzled Grist Does Not Exist!</i> (e)<br />Juliette MacIver, Sarah Davis. <i>That's Not a Hippopotamus!</i> (e)<br />Eve Sutton, Lynley Dodd. <i>My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes</i> (e) (re-read)<br /><br /><strong>Non-fiction books</strong><br />Yuval Noah Harari. <i>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind</i> (e)<br />Richard Fidler. <i>Ghost Empire</i><br /><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/201662.html#cutid1">short, screen, and stage</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___2" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/201662.html#cutid2">books bought and borrowed</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___2" aria-live="assertive"></div><br /><br /><strong>Top of the to-read pile</strong><br />Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. <i>Around the World in Eighty Days</i> (e)<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pedanther&ditemid=201662" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://pedanther.dreamwidth.org/201662.html ted chiang: adaptations superman: fanworks roald dahl: adaptations j r r tolkien: fanworks sherlock holmes: adaptations michael ende: adaptations brad bird arthur upfield the fifth element jules verne: adaptations jurassic park godzilla robert herrick the sixth sense batman: fanworks wicked fiction log mordecai richler denis villeneuve charles dickens the mummy lynley dodd triangle and robert jules verne doctor who muppets helen simonson labyrinth h g wells: adaptations highlander juliette maciver naoki urasawa james bond julian rathbone steven spielberg cory doctorow dracula: adaptations star wars: fanworks richard fidler f scott fitzgerald: adaptations natural six dungeons and dragons: adaptations james d macdonald indiana jones the princess bride william morris bluey monty python oz: adaptations the muppet show the shawshank redemption casablanca steven carroll tom scioli ursula vernon yuval noah harari tron pixar blackadder terminator the matrix the iron giant babylon 5 uri orlev public 0