{"id":243,"date":"2006-05-11T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T11:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/11\/giant-booklog-backlog\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-11T11:23:34","slug":"giant-booklog-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/11\/giant-booklog-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Booklog Backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well before I was a footnote in a list of popular science blogs, I started out into the world of weblogging by starting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steelypips.org\/library\/\">book log<\/a>, which I still maintain, sort of. I haven&#8217;t posted anything to it in a few months because, well, this site takes up most of my blogging energy, and I do have a day job, you know?<\/p>\n<p>I occasionally feel a little guilty about this, especially since I&#8217;ve got big piles of books here that haven&#8217;t been shelved in order to remind me to booklog them&#8230; Which is silly, because it&#8217;s just a damn hobby, but there you go.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as a reminder that I do read things other than blogs and student papers, I&#8217;ll list (most of) the books in the booklog queue below the fold. If there&#8217;s anything there you&#8217;d really like to hear my opinion of, leave a comment, and maybe that will provide the impetus I need to actually post about some of these<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The list, in no particular order, with a one-sentence description:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><cite>Gaudeamus<\/cite> by John Barnes. A very strange little metafictional thing.<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Tyranny of the Night<\/cite> by Glen Cook. First in a new fantasy series.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Olympos<\/cite> by Dan Simmons. Sequel to <cite>Ilium<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Hidden Family<\/cite> by Charlie Stross. <cite>The Chronicles of Amber<\/cite> plus Usenet economics.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Polaris<\/cite> and <cite>Seeker<\/cite> and <cite>A Talent for War<\/cite> by Jack McDevitt. A series about antiquities dealers Innn Spaaaace.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Caught Stealing<\/cite> and <cite>Six Bad Things<\/cite> by Charlie Huston. Mainstream crime novels, in a Jim Thompson sort of vein.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Consider the Lobster<\/cite> by David Foster Wallace. Essays by the king of footnote fiction.<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Men Who Stare at Goats<\/cite> by Jon Ronson. New Age wackiness in the US military explains our foreign policy. Non-fiction.<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Narrows<\/cite> by Alexander Irvine. A secret history of WWII in Detroit, with golems.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Altered Carbon<\/cite> by Richard Morgan. First of the Takeshi Kovacs far-future thriller novels.<\/li>\n<li><cite>A Dirty Job<\/cite> by Christopher Moore. Death&#8217;s Little Helpers run into trouble in San Francisco, wackiness ensues.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Crux (Lucifer vol. 9)<\/cite> by Mike Carey et al.. Ninth in the <cite>Sandman<\/cite> follow-on series.<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Bonehunters<\/cite> and <cite>The Healthy Dead<\/cite> by Steven Erikson. The latest Malazan Book of the Fallen, and a lightweight novella in the same world.<\/li>\n<li><cite>Noisy Outlaws, etc.<\/cite> and <cite>Astonishing Stories<\/cite> by McSweeney&#8217;s. Two story collections, the first for &#8220;young adults,&#8221; the second a sequel to their earlier collection of thrilling tales.<\/li>\n<li><cite>The Outskirter&#8217;s Secret<\/cite>, <cite>The Lost Steersman<\/cite> and <cite>The Language of Power<\/cite> by Rosemary Kirstein. The rest of the Steerswoman series.<\/li>\n<li><cite>His Majesty&#8217;s Dragon<\/cite> and <cite>Throne of Jade<\/cite> by Naomi Novik. Patrick O&#8217;Brian with dragons.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I feel like there ought to be more, but that&#8217;s a pretty good list as it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well before I was a footnote in a list of popular science blogs, I started out into the world of weblogging by starting a book log, which I still maintain, sort of. I haven&#8217;t posted anything to it in a few months because, well, this site takes up most of my blogging energy, and I&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/11\/giant-booklog-backlog\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Giant Booklog Backlog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}