Okay, I think I can get most of my books for the calendar year, here.

I know I started with Ice, Iron, and Gold by S. M. Stirling, since it was due Jan. 4th. Then there was The Case of the Mythical Monkeys, by Erle Stanley Gardner, a Perry Mason mystery, which I liked well enough to place holds on a couple more.

And last night I read Legacy, by Lois McMaster Bujold. Stayed up too late finishing it. I really like this Sharing Knife series of hers. It is grabbing me more than her Curse of Chalion series.

So that is three so far. Not too many but my father was visiting the first week of the year.

Oh I'm so jealous, I'm waiting for The Sharing Knife: Legacy to come out in paperback in April or May. I really want to read it!

I got it from my library.

Yesterday:
4) Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler.

Today:
5) The Case of the Howling Dog by Erle Stanley Gardner.

Forgot the reading-out-loud books we finished this month:

6) A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle, which I read to my husband (his first time with the book).
7) The Castle of Llyr, by Lloyd Alexander, which he read to me (his first time with the book, but not mine - my family read it aloud when I was a child).

And then I read:
8) The Case of the Counterfeit Eye, by Erle Stanley Gardner. I am going to ease off on these Perry Mason mysteries for a while; a few years ago I wanted to read all the Asey Mayo mysteries in order, but I found that they were formulaic enough that it was tedious to read them in quick succession, and stopped. Now, the only formula I've noticed about Perry Mason is that the last few chapters take place in the courtroom, but I still intend to pace myself.

9) Girl in a Box, by Sujata Massey.
10) Skeletons, by Kate Wilhelm (audio book on my MP3 player, checked out of the library).

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That reading aloud thing is so neat. My daughter and I are doing that, and I make sure to pick books we are both interested in (so, no Lizzie Maquire books, but we recently read A Wrinkle in Time, too). It really is different following the book while she reads, or reading aloud to her. How much time do you spend reading aloud each night? Or do you do it more occassionally?

We read to each other a couple of times a week at bedtime, for maybe 10-20 minutes. This is between my husband and myself and doesn't count the bedtime stories with my kids. When my parents moved in together, neither one wanted to do the dishes, so we had a tradition when I was growing up of reading out loud while someone washed dishes.

11) Baby Doll Games by Margaret Maron
12) The Deepest Water by Kate Wilhelm (audio book on MP3 player, from library)
13) Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

14) Rebel Ice, by S. L. Viehl - I borrowed this from a friend over a year ago and never got into it until last week. After I got past the first few sections, it picked up.

For me, a long time for just one book. I have a pile of others that I've read part of since my last post. We shall see which one I finish next.

15) My Own Kind of Freedom, by Steven Brust - Firefly fanfic by a great author! (Find it here.)

Turned out it wasn't any of the books that I was in the middle of during my last post. And the two I might finish next are not from that pile either! Maybe I should return some of the older ones to the library without finishing them.

Ooh, free Firefly novel? By someone with street cred? I'm there!

16) Angelmass by Timothy Zahn.
17) Jennifer Government, by Max Barry.

18 & 19) Ingathering, by Zenna Henderson - I debated whether to count this as one book or two but it is an omnibus of her two earlier "People" books, plus at least one more story, so I've decided to award myself credit for two books.
20) Sunstorm, by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. I still have 2 pages to read, but that's close enough, since I should be able to do that in the next 5 minutes!

21) Crown of Slaves, by David Weber and Eric Flint.
22) Agent of Change, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (reread, again - wanted a comfortable book).

23) Here Lies the Librarian, by Richard Peck (in audio form).

24) I stayed up too late last night finishing Endless Blue, by Wen Spencer.

This morning, I started reading The Wizard Hunters, by Martha Wells, only to realize I had read it before but remembered almost nothing about it. I skipped to the last 10% of the book - I originally checked it out at the library because the 2nd book in the series was also there and I didn't want to start in the middle. So in a few minutes I'm going back to the library to get book 2, but keeping book 1 to finish skimming it.

25) The Dog Said Bow-Wow, by Michael Swanwick.

Reviewing my library records, I missed entering 26) Murder in the Solid State, by Wil McCarthy.
Since my last post, I've read:
27) Love, Lies, and Liquor, by M.C. Beaton.
28) The Ships of Air, by Martha Wells.

29) Boundary, by Eric Flint and Ryk E. Spoor

(note: touchstone on Flint doesn't work but Spoor does! And Flint has so many more books published!)

I finished two books yesterday. It seems odd that it's been so long between finishing books; but these both took a while to read.

30) The World Without Us, by Alan Weisman.
31) 1634: the Baltic War, by David Weber and Eric Flint.

32) 1634: the Bavarian Crisis, by Eric Flint and Virginia deMarce.

33) The Last Juror, by John Grisham.

34) Dragon and Thief, by Timothy Zahn.
35) Dragon and Soldier, by Timothy Zahn.

Each of them a fast read and not as good as Angelmass, but enjoyable enough to list them in my library and look for the next volume.

36) Black Powder War, by Naomi Novik.

This book sat around for a while after I had read about 2/3 of it; then I moved it to my car where I like to keep a paperback, and somehow it went pretty quickly after that. Perhaps because I took the kids to OMSI's science playground and read while they played.

37) The Knitting Sutra, by Susan Gordon Lydon.

38) Dragon and Slave, by Timothy Zahn.
39) Dawn, by Octavia E. Butler.
40) Dragon and Herdsman, by Timothy Zahn.
41) Dragon and Judge, by Timothy Zahn.

42) War and Anti-War (not a touchstone b/c the result linked to "Red Scare or Red Menace?" by John Haynes), by Alvin and Heidi Toffler.
43) The Gate of Gods, by Martha Wells - finishing up "The Fall of Ill-Rien" trilogy.

44) The Nameless Day, by Sara Douglass - another one that I bogged down on 3/4 of the way through and then took along in the car with me.
45) Agent to the Stars, by John Scalzi.

46) Empire of Ivory, by Naomi Novik.
47) Old Man's War, by John Scalzi - in PDF form, free from Tor Books.
48) Years in the Making, by L. Sprague de Camp, when I realized that I had never read "Lest Darkness Fall".

49) The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi.
50) Misspelled, edited by Julie E. Czerneda.
51) Talyn, by Holly Lisle.

52) Blood and Iron, by Elizabeth Bear.
53) The Last Colony, by John Scalzi.

54) Hard Row, by Margaret Maron.

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55) The Search: How Google and its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed our Culture, by John Battelle.

56) The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, by Alexander McCall Smith.

57) Valor's Trial, by Tanya Huff. I'm not sure, but it feels to me as if this is the end of the series.

58) With Friends Like These..., by Gillian Roberts (it was in a pile of free books outside of Laurelhurst Park).
59) Tears of the Giraffe, by Alexander McCall Smith.
60) The Final Solution, by Michael Chabon.
61) Morality for Beautiful Girls, by Alexander McCall Smith.
62) The Kalahari Typing School for Men, by Alexander McCall Smith.

(I got lots of reading in on my visit to my parents.)

63) Sideways in Crime, edited by Lou Anders.
64) Nano Comes to Clifford Falls, by Nancy Kress.
65) The Full Cupboard of Life, by Alexander McCall Smith.

66) Brasyl, by Ian McDonald.

67) Double Share, by Nathan Lowell.
68) Victory of Eagles, by Naomi Novik.

69) Playing for Pizza, by John Grisham.
70) The Careful Use of Compliments, by Alexander McCall Smith.
71) Blue Shoes and Happiness, by Alexander McCall Smith.
72) Night Train to Rigel, by Timothy Zahn.

I left this too long, so the order of reading is an estimate.

73) The Good Husband of Zebra Drive, by Alexander McCall Smith.
74) Jhegaala, by Steven Brust.
75) The Sharing Knife: Passage, by Lois McMaster Bujold.
76) Very Hard Choices, by Spider Robinson.
77) Mystery Date, edited by Denise Little.

78) Playing for Keeps, by Mur Lafferty.
79) Saturn's Children, by Charles Stross.
80) Wolf in the Shadows, by Marcia Muller.

81) The Tale of Hawthorne House, by Susan Wittig Albert.

Once again, I've left this for quite a while, so the order is a wild approximation.

82) The Mirador, by Sarah Monette.
83) To Hold Infinity, by John Meaney.
84) The Man with the Iron Heart, by Harry Turtledove.
85) Grimspace, by Ann Aquirre.
86) Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams.
87) Cenotaxis, by Sean Williams.
88) Russian Amerika, by Stoney Compton.
89) Black Maria, by Diana Wynne Jones.
90) Death by Darjeeling, by Laura Childs.

Gack! Over two weeks since I posted. Let's see:

91) Future Washington, edited by Ernest Lilley.
92) The Mirador, by Sarah Monette.
93) The Sword-Edged Blonde, by Alex Bledsoe.
94) The Jasmine Moon Murder, by Laura Childs.
95) Stewards of the Flame, by Sylvia Louise Engdahl.
96) Goodnight, Sweet Prince, by David Dickinson.
97) The Valley-Westside War, by Harry Turtledove.

98) Renegade's Magic, by Robin Hobb.

99) Hercules Poirot's Christmas, by Agatha Christie.
100) Duainfey, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller.

101) Touchstone, by Laurie King.
102) Sly Mongoose, by Tobias S. Buckell.
103) Bringing Home the Birkin, by Michael Tonello.

104) Count Karlstein, by Philip Pullman.
105) The Book of Story Beginnings, by Kristin Kladstrup.
106) The Lies of Locke Lamora, by Scott Lynch.

107) City at the End of Time, by Greg Bear.
108) Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait, by K. A. Bedford.

- two very different looks at epic wars at the end of time

109) The Accidental Florist, by Jill Churchill (wherein the character buys a mystery by Jill Churchill, from her other series).