pedanther

Fiction books
Terry Pratchett. The Light Fantastic (e) (re-read)
Patricia C Wrede. Talking to Dragons (e) (re-read)

In progress
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Conflict of Honors (re-read)

Non-fiction books
Adrian Goldsworthy. Antony and Cleopatra

In hiatus
Nigel West. MI5

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Terry Pratchett. Equal Rites

Fiction books
(anthology). Ocean
Ina R Friedman, Allen Say. How My Parents Learned to Eat
Ayano Imai. The 108th Sheep

In progress
Ben Aaronovitch. Moon Over Soho
Kim Newman. The Hound of the D'Urbervilles

Non-fiction books in progress
Barbara Sher, Barbara Smith. I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Kim Newman. Bad Dreams

Fiction books
David Gemmell. Legend
Barbara Hambly. Stranger at the Wedding (re-read)
Josephine Tey. The Franchise Affair (re-read)

In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

Non-fiction books
Linda Gale. Discover What You're Best At

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Agatha Christie. The Complete Quin & Satterthwaite

If you're thinking I've left it a bit late to write about Sunday, you're not wrong. I actually started working on the first version of this two Sundays ago. I'm trying to avoid making it three.

Sunday night television at the moment is Last Chance to See, Poroit, and Sherlock. (Poirot and Sherlock are scheduled against each other, as if that means anything in the age of home video recorders and streaming video.)

Last Sunday's episode of Poirot had a minor character played by the actress who went on to appear as Agatha Christie in Doctor Who.

I'm enjoying Sherlock so far. Well, I liked the first episode, but the second was disappointing. (It's supposed to be bringing Sherlock Holmes into the 21st century, so what was with all the outdated oriental stereotypes? They don't even have the excuse of it being in the original story - all the chinoiserie is new material.) I hear the third episode is a return to form, though?

Last Chance to See so far seems to be giving the original series of twenty years ago an opportunity to live up to its name - two episodes in, both the featured species have been no-shows when Mark and Stephen went to look for them in the wild. And then there's the Yangtze river dolphin, which they didn't even go to look for because it's been declared extinct since the original series was made. Disturbing.

(There's never been a moment when I've been tempted to forget that Stephen Fry isn't Douglas Adams, but there are times when he's in narration mode where he sounds remarkably like the original series' narrator, Peter Jones. Although this is perhaps not so odd; after all, it's not the first thing he's taken over from Peter Jones as narrator of.)

Fiction books
Raymond Briggs. The Puddleman
John Brunner. The Compleat Traveller in Black
Warren Ellis, Raulo Caceres. Crecy
Warren Ellis, John Cassaday. Planetary: All Over the World and other stories
Warren Ellis, Darrick Robertson. Transmetropolitan: Back on the the Street
Don Freeman. Will's Quill: or, How a Goose Saved Shakespeare
Agatha Christie. Death Comes As the End
Crawford Kilian. Greenmagic
Anthony Price. The Labyrinth Makers
Kathleen Sky. Vulcan!
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 001
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 002
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 003
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 004
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 005
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 006
Naoki Urasawa, et al. Pluto: 007
Aaron Williams. PS 238: Senseless Acts of Tourism! (re-read)
Aaron Williams. PS 238: Daughters, Sons, & Shrink-Ray Guns

In progress
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace

Non-fiction books
(none)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Dennis Palumbo. City Wars

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, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

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

Fiction books
(anthology). Batman Black and White volume 2
John Bellairs. The Pedant and the Shuffly (reread)
Paul Biegel. The King of the Copper Mountains (reread) (partial)
Alexandre Dumas, tr. Richard Pevear. The Three Musketeers
Austin Grossman. Soon I Will Be Invincible
T H Lain. Dungeons & Dragons: The Savage Caves
L S Lawrence. Escape by Sea
Alan Moore, et al. DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons. Watchmen (reread)
Richard Morgan. Altered Carbon
Mickey Zucker Reichert, Jennifer Wingert. Spirit Fox

Non-fiction books
(none completed)

In progress
Adrian Goldsworthy. Caesar

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )