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Oops, I did it again
I appear to have spent £110 on books while in Toronto (and in Kitchener visiting ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
james_nicoll).
Asimov's January 2005; Paul Kearney Ships from the West; Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities; Garth Nix Sabriel; John Boyd The Rakehells of Heaven; Stephen Goldin The Eternity Brigade; Joan Vinge The Summer Queen, Heaven Chronicles; Michael Swanwick Bones of the Earth; Wil McCarthy Lost in Transmission, The Wellstone; John Barnes The Duke of Uranium, A Princess of the Aerie, In the Hall of the Martian King; Harry Turtledove Ruled Brittania, In the Presence of Mine Enemies;
Antonino Terranova Skyscrapers.
A lot of those (the Barnes, the Terranova, the Turtledove, probably the McCarthy) count as guilty pleasures. Sabriel I read on the train to and from Niagara, and thought very good; lots of the aspects had been assembled before, but the non-morbid necromancy felt new and good, and there's a strong sense that victory has costs - even more so than Pullman. I got Lirael from a free-books offer on the back of a cereal packet, and will be reading that next.
Why am I buying so many books when I cannot see where in my room I'd fit a second six-shelf bookcase?
james_nicoll).Asimov's January 2005; Paul Kearney Ships from the West; Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities; Garth Nix Sabriel; John Boyd The Rakehells of Heaven; Stephen Goldin The Eternity Brigade; Joan Vinge The Summer Queen, Heaven Chronicles; Michael Swanwick Bones of the Earth; Wil McCarthy Lost in Transmission, The Wellstone; John Barnes The Duke of Uranium, A Princess of the Aerie, In the Hall of the Martian King; Harry Turtledove Ruled Brittania, In the Presence of Mine Enemies;
Antonino Terranova Skyscrapers.
A lot of those (the Barnes, the Terranova, the Turtledove, probably the McCarthy) count as guilty pleasures. Sabriel I read on the train to and from Niagara, and thought very good; lots of the aspects had been assembled before, but the non-morbid necromancy felt new and good, and there's a strong sense that victory has costs - even more so than Pullman. I got Lirael from a free-books offer on the back of a cereal packet, and will be reading that next.
Why am I buying so many books when I cannot see where in my room I'd fit a second six-shelf bookcase?
Garth Nix