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31 books

[15:52] Lamont-Cranston> I have read 31 books since January 1
[15:52] Tigger_> list them on the site
Trouble is my Business - Raymond Chandler - finished January 1st
The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson - January 1st-2nd
A Spectre is Haunting Texas - Fritz Leiber - January 3rd-8th
Jirel of Joiry - C.L. Moore - January 9th-10th
Word for World is Forest - Ursula K. LeGuin - January 10th-11th
Rocannon's World and Planet of Exile - Ursula K. LeGuin - January 12th-14th
City of Illusions - Ursula K. LeGuin - January 14th-15th
Soldier of Arete - Gene Wolfe - January 15th-17th

bibliomania?

In the last three book buying trips since mid November-ish I've picked up:
The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
Fantasy Masterworks #32 The Broken Sword - Poul Anderson
Trouble is my Business - Raymond Chandler
Penguin Classics The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Gather, Darkness* - Fritz Leiber
The Green Millennium*
The Wanderer*
Ship to the Stars*
Night of the Wolf*
A Spectre is Haunting Texas*
Our Lady of Darkness*
Changewar*
Interfaces, an anthology of Speculative Fiction* edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Virginia Kidd

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

Here is a critic's list of "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die": http://www.librarything.com/bookaward/1001+Books+You+Must+Read+Before+You+Die or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1001_Books_You_Must_Read_Before_You_Die

And of those 1001, I have read 144 of them, as follows:

books bought today

The Winter Queen - Boris Akunin
Gollancz Fantasy Masterworks #46 Sea-Kings of Mars and Otherworldly Stories - Leigh Brackett
Penguin Classics The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Gollancz Science Fiction Masterworks #16 The Dispossessed - Ursula K. leGuin
Conjure Wife - Fritz Leiber
Elric the Stealer of Souls - Michael Moorcock

I had wanted to also get Bloods A Rover by James Ellroy, but not one bookstore in Melbourne city centre had it!

Gene Wolfe discusses The Wizard Knight

To arms men!

Venkman please read The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

And in exchange I shall read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Riders
Who treads those level lands of gold,
The level fields of mist and air,
And rolling mountains manifold
And towers of twilight over there?

No mortal foot upon them strays,
No archer in the towers dwells,
But feet too airy for our ways
Go up and down their hills and dells.

[i]The people out of old romance,
And people that have never been,

What are we reading? Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front

"Since You Went Away: World War II Letters from American Women on the Home Front", as you can guess from the title is an anthology of letters written by women to their men at war.

Tigger please read The Wizard Knight by Gene Wolfe

The Riders
Who treads those level lands of gold,
The level fields of mist and air,
And rolling mountains manifold
And towers of twilight over there?

No mortal foot upon them strays,
No archer in the towers dwells,
But feet too airy for our ways
Go up and down their hills and dells.

The people out of old romance,
And people that have never been,
And those that on the border dance
Between old history and between

[i]Resounding fable, as the king

What are we reading? Famous Five - Five Go Off in a Caravan

Time for another Famous Five book. This time it is Enid Blyton's 1946 work, "Five Go Off in a Caravan".

What Are We Reading? Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser.

I started these on the 4th of June an finished them on the 3rd of July.

[i]Swords and Deviltry (collection 1970)
Induction (vignette 1970, first publication)
The Snow Women (novella 1970 Fantastic)
The Unholy Grail (novelette 1962 Fantastic)
Ill Met in Lankhmar (novella 1970 F&SF)—telling how Fafhrd and the Mouser met, this story won both a Nebula award and a Hugo award
Swords Against Death (collection 1970, expanded and revised from Two Sought Adventure 1957)
The Circle Curse (1970, first publication)

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