OK, my one and only resolution this year is to get at least one review up per week, cos my slackness over the last few months has been a disgrace *hangs head in shame*. For a taste of what's (hopefully) on its way...
Reviews still in progress from last year
Watchmen - Alan Moore
The Inferior - Peadar O Guilin
The Ennead, Divide and Rule & Enough Is Too Much Already - Jan Mark
The Complex - John Duignan
Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
Books I haven't finished reading yet
Bloodheir - Brian Ruckley
In Search of the Craic - some folk-music journalist guy
The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 21
Bad Science - Ben Goldacre
The Extended Phenotype - Richard Dawkins
Howard Who? - Howard Waldrop
Books I haven't even started reading yet
House of Leaves - Mark Z Danielewski
Chronicles of the Xandim - Maggie Furey
City at the Edge of Time - Greg Bear
Feast of Souls - Celia Friedman
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
Dragonscarpe - Pat McNamara
Still waiting for it to turn up from Amazon
Thongor fights the Pirates of Tharakus - Lin Carter
If anyone has an opinion on which of these I should tackle first, then please speak now!
Dear Ms. Brighton:
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year! I don't meant to post this, per se, but I do not see another way to contact you. I am an editor at Putnam, an imprint of Penguin, and we occasionally publish some outstanding books that I think you might really like. I would love nothing more that to send you advance copies from time to time. Could you drop me a line and let me know if that would be alright? My email is Timothy [dot] Travaglini [at] us [dot] penguingroup [dot] com.
Thanks!
All best wishes,
Timothy Travaglini
Senior Editor
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Penguin Young Readers Group
looking forward to seeing what you think of little brother - just finished it, and there's a lot of food for thought there - fee
ReplyDeleteI would really like to see a review on House of Leaves. I have read conflicting opinions on the book, and I don't know If I should read it. It would be really great if you could do a review on it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback! I've just put up the Little Brother review and am moving House of Leaves to the top of the stack...
ReplyDeleteYeah, I find maintaining a regular blogging schedule based around books alone quite difficult. My reading speed is a fair bit less than a lot of my friends who don't have blogs. That's one of the reasons why I decided from the start to have movie/TV/computer game reviews on my blog as well.
ReplyDeleteHere's to more Sandstorm Reviews in 2009! :-)
I'd love to hear what you think of "Bloodheir". My next Amazon spree approaches, and this one's a candidate because I liked "Winterbirth" well enough.
ReplyDeleteCool list. I haven't read any of them yet, though many are on my own list for this year. I look forward to reading them and finding out what others think of them.
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