kgbooklog

A book I've been waiting for is supposed to be published next month, but I've been getting rather worried about it since neither Amazon nor the publisher have a title for it yet. Today I decided to check the author's website, and discovered that the lack of title is a promotional gimmick, not (necessarily) a sign that the author had written himself into a corner and will have to start over from scratch.

I'm happy, though I suspect this is really annoying to a lot of librarians.

My booklog is now indexed by date and author in my memories. Well, except for the month and a half that pre-dates my LJ account; I may repost those entries later, clumped by author.

From davidgoldfarb who doesn't know where the first list comes from either. Second list is from the ALA.

You're supposed to bold the ones you've read
and italicize the ones you've read part of. Paranthetical comments are from me.

( 2 Big Honkin' Lists )

I'd like to see meme spread, so I'll tag papersky and james_nicoll. You don't have to do both lists if you don't want to.

As nancylebov puts it.

Why am I on your friends list?

[cut&pasted from papersky]

Since this account exists solely for me to talk about books, I don't have any excuse not to participate...

As requested by kate_nepveu.

1. Total number of books I've owned:

I think I own about 300-400 now, and about an equal number sold back. We are counting non-fiction too, right?

2. Last book I bought:

It's been a slow year so far. I think Nix's Sabriel (for re-reading). Most recent unread book would be Erikson's Midnight Tides.

3. Last book I read:

Last finished: Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in a Hot Pink Pursuit

Currently reading: Rosenberg's Not Quite Scaramouche and Erikson's Midnight Tides (during breaks at work)

4. 5 books that mean a lot to me:

Kirstein's The Steerswoman's Road, underappreciated and no one else is writing anything like this (every time I ask for similar books, people recommend things like MacAvoy which are the exact opposite of what I want).

The Lord of the Rings

Gonick's Cartoon History of the Universe
Gleick's Chaos: Making a New Science
Gardner's Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers
(making history, science and math fun)

5. Five people to take up the meme and answer in their own lj.

Heh, only six people read my journal, and at least one has already done this meme.

I finally have a user pic!

This is something called NeCoRo, which I first saw about a week ago on james_nicoll's friends page. A little hunting around in Google found the perfect image: an arrogant, robotic cat sitting on a book. And just now I got a reply from the website I found it on (MentalBay.com) giving permission to use it (but they still didn't name the photographer).

Not sure if this will be added to my official booklog since it's a movie, but I thought I may as well give my opinion here.

I was expecting a more traditional tale, more like the early scenes in the village and maybe the samurai army. Iron Town was just weird, like a Renfest "Guys and Dolls". Well, no, not really, but that's the closest thing I can think of. And I've never seen anyone decapitated by an arrow before (nor by a bullet). And why was it titled "Princess Mononoke", anyway? Was she the wolf girl? I think that's what was said the one(1) time that name is mentioned. Not that this is her story in the first place.

I don't regret watching it, but I am glad I got it from the library and not Blockbuster. Oh well, back to reading books.

Next Book: F. Paul Wilson, _Gateways_

Everyone else is doing it, and it's free, and I'm sure I'll be able to quit anytime I want to.

Anyway, this blog is mainly so I can put my booklog on-line instead of posting and emailing it to people I think are interested.

Comments welcome. If you ask nicely, I may even write actual reviews of selected books.