New books - December 2007!

Books that arrived in December 2007:

Vernor Vinge. Marooned in Real Time
Robert Rankin. Apocalypso
J. Calvin Pierce. The Door to Ambermere
H.P. Lovecraft. The Road to Madness
Eleanor Mathews. Ambassador to the Penguins: A Naturalist's Year Aboard a Yankee Whaleship
Frederik Pohl. Heechee Rendezvous

Official TBR Count - December 2007!

As of December 1, my TBR count is:

--- 229 ---

New books - November 2007!

Books that arrived in November 2007:

Charlaine Harris. Shakespeare's Trollop
Charlaine Harris. Shakespeare's Counselor
Christopher Moore. Fluke, or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings
Christopher Moore. A Dirty Job
Kathy Reichs. Break No Bones
Bryan Smith. Deathbringer
Brian Keene. The Rising
Patricia A. McKillip. The Riddle-Master of Hed
Kim Harrison. Every Which Way But Dead
C.J. Cherryh. Brothers of Earth
Norm Cowie. The Next Adventures of Guy

Official TBR Count - November 2007!

As of November 1, my TBR count is:

--- 228 ---

New books - October 2007!

Books that arrived in October:

Kim Newman. Anno Dracula
Gillian Flynn. Sharp Objects
Martin H. Greenburg, et al. Murder in Baker Street
Keith Ablow. Denial
Javier Sierra. The Secret Supper
Jefferson Bass. Carved in Bone
Kevin Brockmeier. The Brief History of the Dead
Matthew Pearl. The Poe Shadow
Pete Goss. Close to the Wind
Kate MacAlister. Fire Me Up
Ingrid Hill. Ursula, Under
Reginald Hill. A Pinch of Snuff
C.J. Cherryh. Fortress in the Eye of Time
Jonathan Safran Foer. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Julie Kaewert. Unbound
Laura Lee. Blame it on the Rain
Garth Nix. Mister Monday
Thomas Mullen. The Last Town on Earth
Jennifer Traig. Devil in the Details
Terry Bisson. Virtuosity
Trudi Canavan. The Novice
Linda Greenlaw. The Lobster Chronicles
Michael Koepf. The Fisherman's Son
Augusten Burroughs. Running With Scissors
Philip Caputo. The Voyage

Official TBR Count - October 2007!

As of October 1, my TBR count is:

--- 207 ---

New books - September 2007!

Books that arrived in September:

Holly Black. Valiant
Lalita Tademy. Cane River
Khaled Hosseini. A Thousand Splendid Suns
Clifford Simak. Our Children's Children
Judith Tarr and Harry Turtledove. Household Gods

Official TBR Count - September 2007!

As of September 1st, my TBR count is:

-- 209 --

New books - August 2007!

These are the books I received in August:

Jerry Jay Carroll. Top Dog
Dean Koontz. Brother Odd
Alice Hoffman. The Probable Future
Dean Koontz. The Husband
K.J. Bishop. The Etched City
Graham Joyce. Dreamside
Trish MacDonald Skillman. Someone to Watch Over
Kate Mosse. Labyrinth

Official TBR Count - August 2007

As of August 1st, my TBR count is:

-- 210 --

New Books - July 2007!

These are the books I received in July:

Stan Pottinger. The Final Procedure
Marilynne Robinson. Gilead
Diane Stabenow, ed. Powers of Detection
Simon R. Green. Deathstalker War
John Irving. The Fourth Hand
Elizabeth Scarborough. Song of Sorcery
Patricia Wallace. Lullabye
Vernor Vinge. A Fire Upon the Deep
Robert A. Heinlein. The Green Hills of Earth
Douglas Clegg. The Attraction
C.J. Cherryh. Foreigner
Jack Olsen. The Climb Up to Hell
Greg Iles. The Footprints of God
Carrie Vaughn. Kitty Goes to Washington
Jerry Jay Carroll. Top Dog

Official TBR Count - July 2007

As of July 1st, my TBR count is:

--- 208 ---

Official TBR Count - June 2007

As of June 1st, my TBR count is:

--- 211 ---

More new books!

Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry
Matilda at the Speed of Light edited by Damian Broderick
Hell West and Crooked by Tom Cole
Survey Ship by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen
Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Cell by Stephen King
Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub
Legacy of Morevi by Tee Morris
Billibub Baddings and The Case of the Singing Sword by Tee Morris

Even more new books!

The Last Mountain by Robert C. Fleet
A Knot in the Grain and Other Stories by Robin McKinley
Design for Murder by Carolyn Hart
Grave Sight by Charlaine Harris
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
War for the Oaks by Emma Bull
Awaken Me Darkly by Gena Showalter
Tall, Dark & Dead by Tate Hallaway

Official TBR count - May 2007

As of May 1st, my TBR count is:

--- 207 ---

More new books!

End in Tears by Ruth Rendell
Master of Wolves by Angela Knight
Murder in E Minor by Robert Goldsborough
Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur
The Pride of Chanur by C.J. Cherryh
Murder in the White House by Margaret Truman
Serpent's Reach by C.J. Cherryh
March by Geraldine Brooks
The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Book of Shadows by James Reese
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore

Official TBR Count - March 2007

At the end of March, my TBR pile was at:

--- 202 ---

Another new book!

Little Face by Sophie Hannah

More new books!

The Restless Dead by Hugh B. Cave
The Sign of the Book by John Dunning
Here be Demons by Esther Friesner
Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King
The Ill-Made Mute by Cecilia Dart-Thornton
The Gilded Chain by Dave Duncan
Bridge to Terabithia by Katharine Patterson
The Redemption of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings
Sphere by Michael Crichton
The Endless Game by Brian Forbes
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
The Mapmaker's Opera by Bea Gonzalez

Official TBR count - February 2007

I managed to weed out some books that I could get easily at the local library. At the end of February, my TBR pile is at:

--- 202 ---

More new books!

Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
The Italian Secretary by Caleb Carr
See Delphi and Die by Lindsey Davis
The Family Trade by Charles Stross
The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
The Shattered World by Michael Reaves
Shadows Over Baker Street edited by Michael Reaves and John Pelan
The Dimension Riders by Daniel Blythe

Official TBR count - January 31, 2007

At the end of January, my TBR pile is at:

--- 215 ---

Another new book!

Today I received Dragonne's Eg by Mary Brown in the mail.

New books!

I received these books on Thursday:

Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See

2 more books!

Two more books came in so far this week:

Upside Down by John Ramsey Miller
Tinker by Wen Spencer

More new books!

Here are the new books I received recently:

Unicorn Mountain by Michael Bishop
An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore
Reliquary by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Ludlum
The Good, the Bad, and the Undead by Kim Harrison
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Another new book!

Today I received The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book 1) by Jonathan Stroud!

Description:

"Presenting a thrilling new voice in children's literature-a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hotshot wizard named Simon Lovelace ruthlessly humiliates Nathaniel in front of everyone he knows, Nathaniel decides to kick up his education a few notches and show Lovelace who's boss. With revenge on his mind, he masters one of the toughest spells of all: summoning the all-powerful djinni, Bartimaeus. But summoning Bartimaeus and controlling him are two different things entirely, and when Nathaniel sends the djinni out to steal the powerful Amulet of Samarkand, Nathaniel finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of magical espionage, murder, blackmail, and revolt. Set in a modern-day London spiced with magicians and mayhem, this extraordinary, funny, pitch-perfect thriller will dazzle the myriad fans of Artemis Fowl and the His Dark Materials trilogy. And with the rights sold in more than a dozen countries, and a major motion picture in the works, the Bartimaeus trilogy is on the fast track to becoming a classic."

Another new book!

Yesterday I received another bookring book in the mail - Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. I'll probably start reading it sometime next week.

Two new books!

I received two more books yesterday:

Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris. This is the first book in the Lily Bard mystery series. It is also a bookring book, so when I finish it, I'll mail it to the next person in the ring.

Hemlock Bay by Catherine Coulter. This is the sixth book in the FBI mystery series.

New book today

Today I got 1776 by David McCullough!

Description:

" In this stirring book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.

Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is a powerful drama written with extraordinary narrative vitality. It is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the King's men, the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known.

Here also is the Revolution as experienced by American Loyalists, Hessian mercenaries, politicians, preachers, traitors, spies, men and women of all kinds caught in the paths of war.

At the center of the drama, with Washington, are two young American patriots, who, at first, knew no more of war than what they had read in books -- Nathanael Greene, a Quaker who was made a general at thirty-three, and Henry Knox, a twenty-five-year-old bookseller who had the preposterous idea of hauling the guns of Fort Ticonderoga overland to Boston in the dead of winter.

But it is the American commander-in-chief who stands foremost -- Washington, who had never before led an army in battle.

The book begins in London on October 26, 1775, when His Majesty King George III went before Parliament to declare America in rebellion and to affirm his resolve to crush it. From there the story moves to the Siege of Boston and its astonishing outcome, then to New York, where British ships and British troops appear in numbers never imagined and the newly proclaimed Continental Army confronts the enemy for the first time. David McCullough's vivid rendering of the Battle of Brooklyn and the daring American escape that followed is a part of the book few readers will ever forget.

As the crucial weeks pass, defeat follows defeat, and in the long retreat across New Jersey, all hope seems gone, until Washington launches the "brilliant stroke" that will change history.

The darkest hours of that tumultuous year were as dark as any Americans have known. Especially in our own tumultuous time, 1776 is powerful testimony to how much is owed to a rare few in that brave founding epoch, and what a miracle it was that things turned out as they did.

Written as a companion work to his celebrated biography of John Adams, David McCullough's 1776 is another landmark in the literature of American history."

New books!

After three days of no mail (Sunday, New Year's, President Ford's Funeral), I came home to find four packages in the mailbox. Three were wishlist books, and one was part of a bookring. A bookring is a Bookcrossing book that someone sends out and which eventually makes it back to the owner. So, my TBR mountain has increased by 3 total.

Here are the books:

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (bookring)
Thunderhead by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Engines of God by Jack McDevitt
Map of Bones by James Rollins