Most recently read stuff is listed first. Books that I'm rereading are in this color. You can generally tell from the blurb whether I liked the book or not, but if you don't want to read the blurb, there's also a star rating on the right. Five stars is excellence personified; three stars means that I thought the book enjoyable but not outstanding; one star ratings are rarely earned, in that I rarely finish such books. Sometimes people ask if I have a favorite book. I point them here. For my own convenience, links go to Amazon, unless the author has a page about it or Project Gutenberg has scanned it in. Honestly, I get most of these from the library... |
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| The Born Queen | Greg Keyes | Fantasy, fourth and last in the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone. In progress. |
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| Titus Groan | Mervyn Peake | Gothic fantasy, first of the Gormenghast trilogy. Lots of incredibly flowery language and describing of people as if they were fantastic objects. A child is born, heir to Gormenghast, the seventy-seventh Earl to take the title; the denizens of the castle react, including an ambitious kitchen boy who aspires to higher things. |
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