Books 2013: BOOKS FOREVER
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hawkwing_lbBooks 2013: 192-196
192. Nicola Griffith, Hild. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013.
HILD HILD HILD HILD. This is the best book. The best book. I am incoherent with praise, wordless with delighted satisfaction. Read this book.
193. Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles. Arrow reprint, originally published 1936.
Nice mystery. Lovely prose at points. Horrible anti-Semitism and racism. Just nasty shit.
194. Laurell K. Hamilton, Affliction.
These books are still a trainwreck. Sometimes it is entertaining to read a trainwreck, as long as one doesn't have to pay money for the privilege.
195. Sharon Shinn, Royal Airs. Ace, 2013.
Light, fluffy, pretty fun.
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196. Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013.
An excellent biography, revealing both about its subject and about the Roman world.
192. Nicola Griffith, Hild. Farrar Straus Giroux, 2013.
HILD HILD HILD HILD. This is the best book. The best book. I am incoherent with praise, wordless with delighted satisfaction. Read this book.
193. Josephine Tey, A Shilling for Candles. Arrow reprint, originally published 1936.
Nice mystery. Lovely prose at points. Horrible anti-Semitism and racism. Just nasty shit.
194. Laurell K. Hamilton, Affliction.
These books are still a trainwreck. Sometimes it is entertaining to read a trainwreck, as long as one doesn't have to pay money for the privilege.
195. Sharon Shinn, Royal Airs. Ace, 2013.
Light, fluffy, pretty fun.
nonfiction
196. Susan P. Mattern, The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013.
An excellent biography, revealing both about its subject and about the Roman world.
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Date: 2013-11-22 04:02 pm (UTC)HILD HILD HILD HILD. This is the best book. The best book. I am incoherent with praise, wordless with delighted satisfaction. Read this book.
My parents gave it to me without my even mentioning it once. I am so excited to read it! The cover is lovely. Women in chain mail FTW.
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Date: 2013-11-22 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-11-22 04:11 pm (UTC)Incidentally (I would leave this on the original post but comments are closed) in your list of essential urban fantasy, you included a book by Kathleen Tierney, though you don't like Caitlin Kiernan's stuff. Is this a liking the stuff from one pen name but not the other thing, or a essential-is-not-necessarily-enjoyable thing, or something else?
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