Books read in 2012

[rolanni]

A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs (read aloud w/Steve)
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Grace Lin
From Whence You Came, Laura Anne Gilman (e)
Frederica, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
No Dominion, C.E. Murphy (e)
The Prestige, Christopher Priest
Cuttlefish, Dave Freer
Intruder, C.J. Cherryh (read aloud w/Steve)
Blameless, Gail Carriger (e)
Changeless, Gail Carriger (e)
The Quiet Gentleman, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Unbroken, Rachel Caine
The Talisman Ring, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Sylvester / OR, The Wicked Uncle, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Death and Resurrection, R. A. MacAvoy
The Unknown Ajax, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Black Sheep, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses, Diane Duane (e)
The Reluctant Widow, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Friday’s Child, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Dragon Ship manuscript, Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (e)
Kim, Rudyard Kipling (e)
Regency Buck, Georgette Heyer (read aloud w/Steve)
Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter (e)
Chimera, Rob Thurman (e)

Comments

Tshirts and list

[nocal-kathyf.livejournal.com]

Hurrah for the T-shirts - can't wait to try mine on and have the first person ask about it! If it arrives on time I will wear it to the County Fair, should see lots of people there. Maybe I'll take my paperback copy of Carousel Tides with me as well to re-read!
I think you have the list right, though I would add the companions because they are the length of a novel. Don't know what limitations you have for the blurb. Must go, cat nibbling at my toes, needs to be petted.

Books read or to read

[(Anonymous)]

I would add to your list of books to read the "Tinker" series from Wen Spencer.
Elf/human interaction in an alternate earth Pittsburgh.

Oh and I would post as an LJ person, except that the system keeps pretending that I do not exist when I try to register.

G. L. Heaton
gheaton4@comcast.net

Re: Books read or to read

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yes, but this is not a "to be read" list; it's an "I HAVE read list." And I read Tinker a long, long time ago.

tshirts

[nocal-kathyf.livejournal.com]

I received my T-shirt already! Hurrah for Sharon and the US Post Office. It is lovely, can't wait to wear it to the Fair on Thursday. Thank you. Kathy

Re: tshirts

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The USPS comes through! Wear it in good health.

Re: Books read or to read

[doushkasmum.livejournal.com]

Are you aware that the third Tinker book, Elfhome, is now available from Baen? http://www.baenebooks.com/p-1635-elfhome.aspx

Re: Books read or to read

[doushkasmum.livejournal.com]

Are you aware that the third Tinker book, Elfhome, is now available from Baen?

Trying again without the link to avoid being spam filtered

Reading aloud

[(Anonymous)]

It strikes me that one of the reasons the dialogue in your novels is so realistic is that you regularly read aloud to each other. I think that must have been much of how books were read in previous generations without radio or TV or movies and in an environment when fewer people were literate. Good books read in a group must have formed some of the more readily available entertainment. Classical writers (and I count Georgette Heyer in that bunch) used dialogue much in the same way oral tradition did in the stories that are timeless. People talking to each other communicates more than just a story line - it's the most effective way of communicating emotion. Descriptive language and internal musing isn't nearly as effective in engaging an audience.