Books read in 2011

[rolanni]

Invader, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Library Wars Volume 1: Love and War, Kiiro Yumi
The Perilous Gard, Elizabeth Marie Pope
Edie Ernst, USO Singer — Allied Spy, Brooke McEldowney
Silver Phoenix, Cindy Pon
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (e)
Foreigner, C.J. Cherryh (read aloud with Steve)
Betrayer, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Right-Ho, Jeeves, P.G. Wodehouse (e)
American Rose, Karen Abbott
The Bull God, Roberta Gellis (e)
Sin in the Second City, Karen Abbott
Of Blood and Honey, Stina Leicht (e)
The God Engines, John Scalzi (e)
Or Else My Lady Keeps the Key, Kage Baker (e)
Unseen, Rachel Caine
Total Eclipse, Rachel Caine
Weight of Stone, Laura Anne Gilman
The Story of Chicago May, Nuala O’Faolain

Originally published at Sharon Lee, Writer. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[estara.livejournal.com]

Is the Library Wars volume the novel or the manga? Did the first light novel even come out in the US? I have to investigate.
Yay for Bren-paidhi! However, the timeline seems to be at three days or so at the most now, so I wonder if the next book will only cover a day ;-).

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The Library Wars volume I read is a manga loaned by a friend. Who happens to be a librarian... Someone else had mentioned a novel from which the manga derives, but I haven't come across that.

[estara.livejournal.com]

Ah! I just thought it might be a novel because all the other read things here are books ^^. Did you like it? Do you like manga in general?

I got hooked on the series by watching the anime made of it as a fansub - now I'm buying what I can get legally in a language I can understand. I don't think they licensed the light novel series which is the original of the story.

It does have a bit of a shoujo feel to it because the heroine is so naive, but still you rarely have action manga solely in a setting of grown-ups and girls holding up their own end of the action without becoming major fan service. I have a soft spot of the honest believer in her dreams ^^.

My favourite current manga heroine is Shurei Hong from Saiunkoku Monogatari (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/149224135) (the first series of the anime was licensed, too, the mangas are released by Viz) which is also based on light novels and has a congenial translation. Lots of eye candy for the girl readers, but the heroine is focussed on trying to become a civil servant (which girls can't - it's a fantasy-based ancient China country) to make sure that the poverty and hopelessness of the upheavals at the time when the current emperor took the throne years ago don't ever happen again.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Well...Edie Ernst, USO Singer — Allied Spy is a graphic novel, sort of, but unless you follow 9 Chickweed Lane, you'd have a good chance of not knowing that.

I do read manga, but mostly I depend on loans from friends. I just read them too fast, and don't tend to re-read, so I'm better served buying a novel (or even two) -- more bang for the buck.

[estara.livejournal.com]

That makes sense.

I'm lucky in that I'm single and fully employed for the foreseeable future and have decided to encourage further production of my favourite genres of books, manga, anime and games by purchasing ^^ - I now own a mortgage on a flat that has two of its living room walls covered in Billy shelves from Ikea, and most of them are already full up - manga especially is being stacked in two rows ^^.

I shall enjoy this state of affairs until I can no longer afford it - so do create away. I still have space on my e-reader or on my shelves!

CJ Cherryh

[claire774.livejournal.com]

I see you are reading Foreigner series. in each new book I'm waiting for her to take up what I call the "big story". But lately she's sticking to the "small story". The small story is about the political problems of the Atevi. The big story is about what's waiting for the humans and Atevi out in space. And it might not be easy. There's some really bad ass aliens rumored to be out there. If they ever pay a visit the Atevi and humans better have their act together. I wish she would write more than one novel a year.
C.