Books Read in 2011, Last Call

[rolanni]

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson (read aloud with Steve)
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Joan Aiken (re-re-re-&c-read)
Agatha Heterodyne and the Guardian Muse, Phil & Kaja Foglio
Cotillion, Georgette Heyer (read aloud with Steve)
The Shattered Vine, Laura Anne Gilman
The Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer (read out loud with Steve)
Desdaemona, Ben Macallan (e)
The Sleeping Partner, Madeleine E. Robins
My Life, Deleted: A Memoir, by Scott Bolzan, Joan Bolzan, and Caitlin Rother (e)
Across the Great Barrier, Patricia C. Wrede
Scaramouche, Rafael Sabatini (e)
Destroyer, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Magic Under Glass, Jaclyn Dolamore (e)
Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs (e)
Warrior Sheep One: Quest of the Warrior Sheep, Christine and Christopher Russell
Phoenix Rising, Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris (e)
Crown Jewels, Walter Jon Williams (e)
Explorer, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Defender, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
Bond of Blood, Roberta Gellis (e)
Inheritor, C.J. Cherryh (read out loud with Steve)
I Don’t Want to Kill You, Dan Wells
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

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Comments

Happy new year

[(Anonymous)]

If you likes Miss Pettigrew, you might also like Miss Buncle's Book, by D.E. Stevenson.

Wishing you both, and the cats, a happy, healthy, and succesful new year.

Hanneke

Happy new year

[(Anonymous)]

If you liked Miss Pettigrew, you might also like Miss Buncle's Book, by D.E. Stevenson.

Wishing you both, and the cats, a happy, healthy, and successful new year.

Hanneke

Re: Happy new year

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I'll put Miss Buncle on the list.

Re: Books Read in 2011, Last Call

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I seem to remember you've read Barry Hughart's Bridge of Birds, but not whether you've read the other two chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox - The Story of the Stone and Eight Skilled Gentlemen.

Have you tried The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley? It's a murder mystery narrated (and solved) by an eleven-year-old English girl who's very keen on chemistry, and who is in a perpetual state of war with her two older sisters. Set in 1950. Their father has been coping (or not) with their mother's death for the last decade, and the financial mess it landed them in. The jack-of-all-trades who works for them has serious PTSD from being a POW, but the kid accepts it as a fact of life and is pretty good at talking him out of flashbacks when they happen. (Sequels: The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag, A Red Herring without Mustard, and I Am Half-Sick of Shadows. I like the author's taste in titles.) Available as e-books or as unabridged recordings, whatever strikes your fancy. I suspect if you'd tried the series, you'd have read the fourth book sometime this autumn, so I mention it.

It was Ophelia, the older of my two sisters. Feely was seventeen, and ranked herself right up there with the Blessed Virgin Mary, although the chief difference between them, I'm willing to bet, was that the BVM doesn't spend 23 hours a day peering at herself in a looking glass while picking away at her face with a pair of tweezers.
- from A Red Herring without Mustard