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ridding the world of madness, one post at a time

5.17.2006

 

because god spelled backwards is dog

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off the bedside table

Charlie Higson, Silverfin

Gene Wolfe,

Shadow and Claw

Neil Gaiman,

Anansi Boys

Alastair Reynolds, Century Rain

Rebecca Walker,

Baby Love

Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

(Gave up on the Clarke halfway through--way too dreary)

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls

Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

James S. Hirsch, Cheating Destiny

Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

Sarah Waters, Affinity

Laurie Colwin, More Home Cooking

Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Music at Long Verney

Sarah Waters, The Night Watch

Tina Cassidy, Birth

Jasper Fforde,

The Well of Lost Plots

(actually, I only half-read the Fforde, it was too dopey)

Maria T. Lennon,

Making It Up as I Go Along

Wallace Stegner,

Crossing to Safety

Alastair Reynolds, Pushing Ice

Kit Reed, The Baby Merchant

Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn

Justine Larbalestier,

Daughters of Earth

Karen Olsson, Waterloo

Robert van Gulik,

The Chinese Gold Murders