Thursday, August 14, 2008

Too...many...books...

So o god we've inherited about 8 cartons of (mostly) sci-fi books from friends who are moving. I'm supposed to sell most of them if possible. Right. Of course while examining them, looking up their ebay prices etc I end up, um, reading many of them. I don't have time for this.

    Currently reading (not from the inheritance collection):
  • Soon I Will Be Invincible > Austin Grossman
  • The Last Witchfinder > James Morrow
  • About Writing > Samuel Delany
  • Clapton the Autobiography > Eric Clapton*
  • Blues: the British Connection > Bob Brunning*
  • The Cult of the Mother Goddess > EO James*
  • Black Powder War > Naomi Novik
    Just finished (not from the inheritance collection):
  • Sorcery & Cecelia > Patricia Wede
  • His Majesty's Dragon & Empire of Jade > Naomi Novik
  • Gentlemen of the Road > Michael Chabon
  • Musicophilia > Oliver Sacks
  • The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies > Robert Kirk, Andrew Lang*
  • The Execution Channel > Ken MacLeod
  • The Nag Hammaradi Scriptures (only skimmed)
  • The Search for the Last Undiscovered Animals > Karl Shuker
  • The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds & Horse Care*
Queued up (not from the inheritance collection):
  • Lud-in-the-Mist > Hope Mirrlees
  • The Iron Dragon's Daughter > Michael Swanwick
  • The Confusion > Neal Stephenson
  • The Singing Sands > Josephine Tey
  • The Alchymist's Journal > Evan Connell
  • Halting State > Charles Stross
  • Girl in Landscape: A Novel > Jonathan Lethem

  • Books marked * are technically research for the novel, but I'd be reading them anyhow most likely.

    Yep. Too many bloody books.

    1 comment:

    Ken Houghton said...

    Oh, good. For a moment, I feared our copy of The Last Witchfinder had gone in the wrong pile.