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Books 2009 // Update

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Am a bit woozy today, onset of a cold, grrrr.

Now (re-)reading a convoluted Indiana Jones novel, plus, for school, a Dutch historical novel called De Avonturen van Henry II Fix (The Adventures of Henry II Fix) so I can do the assignment tomorrow evening. And then, after that, I will be reading 2/3 of a book about Dutch history for the exam coming Monday.

2009 (so far)
01. Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves
02. P. Nowee – Arendsoog. Vogelvrij {Eagle-Eye Outlaw} [Dutch]
03. Maggie Tallerman – Understanding Syntax (translated into Dutch and edited for Dutch students by Jan-Wouter Zwart) [Dutch] [school]
04. Hanneke Houtkoop & Tom Koole – Taal in Actie. Hoe Mensen Communiceren met Taal {Language in Action. How People Communicate with Language} [Dutch] [school]
05. Erica van Boven & Gillis Dorleijn – Literair Mechaniek. Inleiding tot de Analyse van Verhalen en Gedichten. {Literary Mechanics. Introduction to the Analysis of Stories and Poetry.} [Dutch] [school]

06. Star Trek: DS9 – Relaunch 1-5 – Twist of Faith (S.D. Perry, David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang, Keith R.A. DeCandido)
07. Esther Verhoef – Alles te Verliezen {Everything to Loose} [Dutch] [School]
08. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game [re-read, it’s been years 🙂]
09. Robert J. Sawyer – Hominids
10. Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere
11. Justin Richards – Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man [Dutch]
12. Star Trek: DS9 – Prophecy & Change (short story collection)

13. Keith R.A. DeCandido – Supernatural: Bone Key
14. Paul Ruditis – Charmed: As Puck Would Have It [Dutch]
15. Laura J. Burns – Charmed: Sweet Talkin’ Demon [Dutch]

Books 2009 // Neverwhere

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Finished Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman today, and, as many books I read recently, it was awesome. It’s the tale of Richard Mayhew who gets stuck in London Below, a basically twisted through time and space copy of London situated below the Old City divided up in baronies and fiefdoms tied to old underground stations.

One evening, as Richard and his fiancé Jessica are on their way to a restaurant, they come across a young woman lying on the street, bleeding. It is Door, fled from London Below, the only survivor of the murder of her family. Richard decides to help her, against Jessica’s wishes who breaks off the engagement. Richard takes Door home to help her. Once there, Mr Croup and Mr Vandemar ring the bell, they’re looking for Door. Richard denies her being there and when C&V barge in and look through the apartment, she is indeed not there.

After Croup and Vandemar leave, Door comes back and the next day, with help from Marquis de Carabas, they return to London Below. Richard goes with them for a bit before he returns above ground. He then finds that people don’t really see him anymore. At his work they don’t recognise him, his apartment is being shown to another couple and Jessica also doesn’t recognise him.

He manages to get back Below and finds Door and the Marquis again. They then set of on a quest of sorts together after they hire Hunter as their bodyguard. Richard goes along because there’s nothing else he can do and this may be the only way for him to go back. Door comes to find out who killed her family, the Marquis helps to settle a debt to Door’s family while Hunter goes with them to so she can eventually slay the Beast of London.

The book is a very entertaining and grips you from just a few pages in. The world building of London Below is excellent, a perfect mix of (semi-)standard fantasy city and weird, twisted modern day London. Richard makes a good main character who doesn’t know what he’s getting himself into but stumbles on nonetheless because it’s the only thing he can do. Door is wonderfully charming and the Marquis… He’s intriguing from the beginning and he sets you on the wrong foot on multiple occasions. I found Hunter less fleshed out but she doesn’t speak a lot either, she more or less just is, at least  until near the end of the book. The final plot twist then, was not unexpected but felt a bit off.

2009 (so far)
01. Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves
02. P. Nowee – Arendsoog. Vogelvrij {Eagle-Eye Outlaw} [Dutch]
03. Maggie Tallerman – Understanding Syntax (translated into Dutch and edited for Dutch students by Jan-Wouter Zwart) [Dutch] [school]
04. Hanneke Houtkoop & Tom Koole – Taal in Actie. Hoe Mensen Communiceren met Taal {Language in Action. How People Communicate with Language} [Dutch] [school]
05. Erica van Boven & Gillis Dorleijn – Literair Mechaniek. Inleiding tot de Analyse van Verhalen en Gedichten. {Literary Mechanics. Introduction to the Analysis of Stories and Poetry.} [Dutch] [school]

06. Star Trek: DS9 – Relaunch 1-5 – Twist of Faith (S.D. Perry, David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang, Keith R.A. DeCandido)
07. Esther Verhoef – Alles te Verliezen {Everything to Loose} [Dutch] [School]
08. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game [re-read, it’s been years 🙂]
09. Robert J. Sawyer – Hominids
10. Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere

Booksy Update

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Currently reading Neil Gaiman‘s Neverwhere and need to finish the last story in the Deep Space 9 anthology Prophecy and Change.
Just read Ender’s game again and  Robert Sawyer‘s Hominids, which is so seriously made of WIN!

Next book in the planning after finishing Neverwhere (which I think will happen tomorrow) is Michael White‘s Equinox. It’s one of those adventure books with murder and history and artifacts and stuff so I figured I pick that one to increase variation instead of returning to either sci-fi or fantasy immediately. Plus, I’ve had Equinox for two years or so and still need to read it…

I’m also planning to enter a contest where you make your own book. This is not just a writing contest, the point here is to create the entire book, whatever way you want, it can be text, pictures, photos, art, or a mix of any or more of this. The best one that is also publishable (or, printable rather) wins and gets published, second and third get money. Those two don’t even have to be publishable/printable. And while it would be awesome^10 to get published, my current financial state is such that I would rather win second prize. I know just what I could do with €1000…
Anyway, so far, my book seems to be some kind of Alice in Wonderland thing where the main character is sucked into this really weird world. But I’m not sure yet what’s happening exactly, the book just takes me along. I do know it’s a massive mix of graphics and text and playing with colours, shapes and textures. I’ve three pages finished so far. At least, in terms of graphics, text might get edited more as the story continues. Mostly since I have no idea where Furry (as I’ve named my main character for now) is going to go or end up and what the purpose of this whole journey of his (hers?) is.

Also, something awesome was confirmed earlier today which I can’t say anything about just yet ’cause it would spoil the surprise for my friend 😀

2009 (so far)
01. Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves
02. P. Nowee – Arendsoog. Vogelvrij {Eagle-Eye Outlaw} [Dutch]
03. Maggie Tallerman – Understanding Syntax (translated into Dutch and edited for Dutch students by Jan-Wouter Zwart) [Dutch] [school]
04. Hanneke Houtkoop & Tom Koole – Taal in Actie. Hoe Mensen Communiceren met Taal {Language in Action. How People Communicate with Language} [Dutch] [school]
05. Erica van Boven & Gillis Dorleijn – Literair Mechaniek. Inleiding tot de Analyse van Verhalen en Gedichten. {Literary Mechanics. Introduction to the Analysis of Stories and Poetry.} [Dutch] [school]

06. Star Trek: DS9 – Relaunch 1-5 – Twist of Faith (S.D. Perry, David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang, Keith R.A. DeCandido)
07. Esther Verhoef – Alles te Verliezen {Everything to Loose} [Dutch] [School]
08. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game [re-read, it’s been years 🙂]
09. Robert J. Sawyer – Hominids

Books 2009 // Alles te Verliezen (Everything to Loose)

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One of my literature classes deals with current literature and examines various trends in Dutch literature. One of those trends is that well-written thrillers are more often seen as literature and also get marketed as ‘literary thriller’. So for a class on that particular subject in two weeks we had to read one of these literary thrillers. It was Esther Verhoef‘s Alles te Verliezen (Everything to Loose). Since this is not a genre I generally enjoy, I bought the book second hand. It arrived yesterday and I started reading it around 1 pm today. It’s now 4pm and I finished the book about half an hour ago. I’ve already put the book back up for sale.

I think that says enough about what I think about it. It’s not a bad book in itself, it’s just very much not my genre and not my style of book. I also found the pace to be on the slow side and the way the descriptions were done to be of the ‘look how nicely I can describe the surroundings’ variety. It felt as if she really wanted to rub it in how well-to-do her main characters were and how lovely the house and grounds and the stable and so on. I know it was part of the story, to emphasize all that Claire stands to loose, but it felt stilted.

The ending was kinda expected but the actual climax evoked an ‘oh, come on!’ reaction.

Edit: I just realised, maybe I should say a few words more about the actual plot? Well, here goes. Main character is Claire, married to rich realtor Harald and mother of their two young children. They’re rich, they live in a big house with lots of space around, stable, horse, you know, the works. Claire’s basically perfect: a stay at home mom, volunteer at the kids’ school, and excellent at entertaining her husband’s business associates when he throws a party. Claire however, has a shady past which came to an end when her lover in that period was sent to jail. Now, ten years later, he’s out and has come back to make trouble.

2009 (so far)
01. Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves
02. P. Nowee – Arendsoog. Vogelvrij {Eagle-Eye Outlaw} [Dutch]
03. Maggie Tallerman – Understanding Syntax (translated into Dutch and edited for Dutch students by Jan-Wouter Zwart) [Dutch] [school]
04. Hanneke Houtkoop & Tom Koole – Taal in Actie. Hoe Mensen Communiceren met Taal {Language in Action. How People Communicate with Language} [Dutch] [school]
05. Erica van Boven & Gillis Dorleijn – Literair Mechaniek. Inleiding tot de Analyse van Verhalen en Gedichten. {Literary Mechanics. Introduction to the Analysis of Stories and Poetry.} [Dutch] [school]

06. Star Trek: DS9 – Relaunch 1-5 – Twist of Faith (S.D. Perry, David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang, Keith R.A. DeCandido)
07. Esther Verhoef – Alles te Verliezen {Everything to Loose} [Dutch] [School]

Books 2009 // Twist of Faith

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Twist of Faith is an omnibus collecting four Star Trek tie-in novels and a novella that continue the story of Deep Space 9 and its crew. In short: I loved this book. I’d wanted to read the beginnings of the DS9 relaunch for ages now and this omnibus edition was the perfect solution (as opposed to buying all the books separately).
The stories were all very well put together, giving attention (and a very good voice) to those regulars that were left behind on the station (or from elsewhere in the ST verse) at the end of the series while skillfully introducing new characters to round out the crew.
The books take place over the course of about a month, three months after the end of the tv series. This was also my only complaint about the books, since so much happens in all of them, it kinda feels like overload to have it take place all in one month. Although this could have been caused by reading all the books in a row without pause.

The first book starts with the station being attacked by Jem’Hadar after three months of relative peace and quiet. The station is still undergoing repairs and not at all equipped to deal with attack. Fortunately, they manage to survive, although not without casualties. Thus begins the search for how and why the Jem’Hadar attacked. Intertwined with this is Jake’s story as he tries to deal with his father’s disappearance and a mysterious prophecy he is given. The third strand is the murder investigation of a Bajoran Vedek who gave Jake the prophecy. The Jem’Hadar and murder strands are brought to a close by the second book. Jake’s story isn’t done yet, however, and he sets out to find his dad.

The third book is a Bashir-centered one where he, together with a few friends from DS9, goes off on a mission for section 31 to stop another genetically enhanced human. I found this one the weakest of the books, the solution seemed to be too easy. It felt a bit sudden.

The fourth book is a Gateways book, telling a story about the Iconian gateways that suddenly open throughout the galaxy. Here it just so happens that one of those gateways connects the Delta Quadrant with the orbit of a Beta Quadrant planet. A Malon waste freighter stumbles upon the gateway and decides to dump it’s toxic waste into it. The waste threatens the planet on the Beta Quadrant side and a massive evacuation needs to be undertaken to save the people. Against the backdrop of this evacuation a way is being sought to close the gateways while Quark gets in over his head trying to negotiate the buying of the gateways for the Orions.

The fifth story tells the tale of Kira who gets lost in a gateway at the end of the fourth book. It is a lovely story about Bajor’s past and offers insights into Kira’s mind.

All in all, it was a ride I enjoyed immensely and I can’t wait to continue the relauch series with the Mission Gamma books and Rising Son where we will finally learn (among other things) what happened to Jake.

2009 (so far)
01. Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves
02. P. Nowee – Arendsoog. Vogelvrij {Eagle-Eye Outlaw} [Dutch]
03. Maggie Tallerman – Understanding Syntax (translated into Dutch and edited for Dutch students by Jan-Wouter Zwart) [Dutch] [school]
04. Hanneke Houtkoop & Tom Koole – Taal in Actie. Hoe Mensen Communiceren met Taal {Language in Action. How People Communicate with Language} [Dutch] [school]
05. Erica van Boven & Gillis Dorleijn – Literair Mechaniek. Inleiding tot de Analyse van Verhalen en Gedichten. {Literary Mechanics. Introduction to the Analysis of Stories and Poetry.} [Dutch] [school]

06. Star Trek: DS9 – Relaunch 1-5 – Twist of Faith (S.D. Perry, David Weddle & Jeffrey Lang, Keith R.A. DeCandido)

Reading Plans

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I’m almost done with the current exam period so it’s time to direct my focus on to what I plan to read next. I have several books on my shelves that I still need to read and this year I plan to get that done. I’ve made a deal with myself that I don’t get to buy new books unless I read old(er) ones I still haven’t opened. The idea is that I need to read two books (at least) for every new one that I want to buy. Since I ordered a new one last week that just got delivered, I need to read two older unread ones to compensate 😀 Not that it is a punishment, I <3 books.

So, the new arrival is Twist of Faith. An omnibus edition that collects four Star Trek novels and a novella in one cover. These books are the first in the so-called DS9 Relaunch Series where they continue the story of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in book form. Now, I’m a Trekkie to the core of my being and Deep Space 9 is my favourite of the available series so when I learned of the relaunch (started some years ago) I wanted them. Various reasons, a lot of them to do with availability of the books over here, have resulted in a somewhat skip-jumped reading. I read about a handful of books taking place after the show ended but never really in order. Now, with Twist of Faith arriving in my home, I can remedy this and start from the beginning.

Other books that live on my shelves and are to be read this year, and preferably in February and March, are:
Elizabeth Bear – Blood & Iron
John Scalzi – The Android’s Dream
Robert Sawyer – Hominids
Neil Gaiman – Neverwhere
Allen Steele – Coyote
Michael White – Equinox

There’s a few more but those are planned for later in the year, including China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station which I’ve had for a few years but never managed to get to more than the first two chapters or so. Then there’s some “literary” stuff, I guess. Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief and James Morrow’s The Last Witchfinder. I also have a Kenzaburo Oe novel lying around that I would like to tackle this year.

Additionally, my best friend has a few fantasy/supernatural books that I haven’t read and that interest me so I will probably plunder her shelves too.

Ooh, I’d almost forget. I’ve done major studying which included completely reading three books (instead of that chapter here, chapter there stuff) so they can be added to the list. And there’s another bedtime reading Arendsoog book.

2009 (so far)
01. Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves
02. P. Nowee – Arendsoog. Vogelvrij {Eagle-Eye Outlaw} [Dutch]
03. Maggie Tallerman – Understanding Syntax (translated into Dutch and edited for Dutch students by Jan-Wouter Zwart) [Dutch] [school]
04. Hanneke Houtkoop & Tom Koole – Taal in Actie. Hoe Mensen Communiceren met Taal {Language in Action. How People Communicate with Language} [Dutch] [school]
05. Erica van Boven & Gillis Dorleijn – Literair Mechaniek. Inleiding tot de Analyse van Verhalen en Gedichten. {Literary Mechanics. Introduction to the Analysis of Stories and Poetry.} [Dutch] [school]

Books 2009 // A Companion to Wolves

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And so we reach 2009. For the rest of the year, I plan to post a list every first few days of the month (starting February) listing the books read so far. I might, in between, post when I’ve read something I enjoyed very much or hated (which is unlikely) or I just feel like I have something to say about.

Not much now, I’ve only read one book so far (mostly to blame on the fact that it’s exam period and I spend most of my time studying/reading school stuff). The book I’ve read is A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear. I bought this late last year as a result of starting to read Bear’s blog halfway through 2008. Then, on my Birthday in September I got a book gift card. I took to the bookstore and went to look for books by Bear and found Dust and Blood & Iron. I read the back cover and was intrigued by both of them so brought them home. I’ve finished Dust and I absolutely LOVE it. It immediately made its way on to the list of favourite books (where it joined, among others, Dan Simmons’  Hyperion/Endymion series and Keith R.A. DeCandido’s Articles of the Federation) and I can’t wait for its sequel, Chill, to get published.
I’ve started Blood & Iron after that but so far it has failed to really pull me in. I don’t quite know why, normally it’s a type of book I like. I blame it on a somewhat busy schedule in the last few months which didn’t give me the uninterrupted time to really dive into a novel. I’ll take it up again after the exam period when I can give it at least an hour at a time so i can see if the schedule’s to blame or the book.

Anyway, getting back on track, after I’d finished Dust, I knew I had to have more Bear. The description of A Companion to Wolves intrigued me, so I bought it and it ended up on the shelf until a few days ago. A post on Bear’s blog about the sequel tot ACtW inspired me to grab it as my next book and once I started, I couldn’t put it down, it was that AWESOME.

The story takes place in this Norse-based culture where Wolfcarls, men who bond together with a wolf, protect the villages from trolls. In return, when a she-wolf has a litter, they choose a number of boys from the villages to join them and eventually bond with the new pups.
This happens to the main character of the book, Njall. Njall is the oldest son of a jarl and destined to follow in his father’s footsteps and lead the villages. Until the wolfcarls knock on their door. Njall is fascinated by the wolf accompanying the wolfcarl and decides to join them. This is only the start of his new life in which he does not only find new friends and bonds with a wolf of his own, but in which he also learns that life is not as black and white as he grew up believing. Things are not always what they seem.

I love the fact that it uses Norse mythology, history and culture as a base, I’ve always been a mythology/history nut so… 😀 I also love the fact that they obviously researched their stuff. The names, culture, behaviour (of men and wolves)… The attention given to the trolls and elves to make them both fit the mythology/culture and keep them different from those generic fantasy trolls and elves… It all created such an interwoven whole that sucked me right in and kept me there. Like Dust, ACtW made its way onto my favourites list and I can hardly wait for the sequel. Too bad that still needs to be written, although the fact that the first two lines have been done is hopeful 😀

2009 (so far)
01. Sarah Monette & Elizabeth Bear – A Companion to Wolves

Booklist: 2008

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Almost there now 😀 Explanation of format and markers is here.

This year I started writing down the authors on tie-in novels in addition to the series they were from.

2008
01. Jeannette Walls – The Glass Castle

02. Mary Shelley – Frankenstein [School]

03. Charmed (Jeff Mariotte) – Mirror Image [Dutch]
04. Star Trek (Keith R.A. DeCandido) – Articles of the Federation [re-read]
05. Harriet Beecher Stowe – Uncle Tom’s Cabin [School]
06. Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child – Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast 3)

07. Julie Kenner – Carpe Demon (Demon Slayer Mom 1)
08. Susan Albert – Hangman’s Root (China Bayles 3) [Dutch]
09. Susan Albert – Rosemary Remembered (China Bayles 4) [Dutch]
10. Susan Albert – Rueful Death (China Bayles 5) [Dutch]
11. Patricia Briggs: Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson 2)
12. William Shakespeare – Anthony & Cleopatra

Starting with this play, a friend and I began the massive job of reading all of Shakespeare’s plas together. Out loud. We each take roughly half of the speaking parts and there we go 🙂 We made a playlist, so to speak, by taking turns picking a play. We then also get first pick of characters in the plays we chose. It’s SO much FUN!

13. Lindsay Sands: A Quick Bite
14. William Shakespeare – Macbeth

15. William Shakespeare – Hamlet
16. William Shakespeare – Romeo & juliet

17. Terry Pratchett – Making Money (Discworld 31)
18. William Shakespeare – King Lear
19. Terry Pratchett – Thud (Discworld 30) [re-read]

20. Carrie Vaugh – Kitty and the Midnight Hour (Kitty 1) [re-read]
21. Carrie Vaugh – Kitty Goes to Washington (Kitty 2)
22. David & Leigh Eddings – The Elder Gods (The Dreamers 4) [Dutch]
23. David & Leigh Eddings – The Treasured One (The Dreamers 2) [Dutch]
24. David & Leigh Eddings – Crystal Gorge (The Dreamers 3) [Dutch]
25. David & Leigh Eddings – The Younger Gods (The Dreamers 4) [Dutch]

26. Carrie Vaugh – Kitty Takes a Holiday (Kitty 3)
27. Carrie Vaugh – Kitty and the Silver Bullet (Kitty 4)
28. Karen Chance – Touch the Dark (Cassandra Palmer 1)

29. Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart – The Science of Discworld III: Darwin’s Watch
30. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Could Read backwards (The Cat Who 1) [Dutch] [re-read]
31. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Played Post-Office (The Cat Who 6) [Dutch] [re-read]
32. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (The Cat Who 7) [Dutch] [re-read]
33. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Sniffed Glue (The Cat Who 8) [Dutch]
34. Elizabeth Bear – Dust

35. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Went Underground (The Cat Who 9) [Dutch] [re-read]
36. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Lived High (The Cat Who 11) [Dutch]
37. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Said Cheese (The Cat Who 18) [Dutch]
38. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Robbed the Bank (The Cat Who 22) [Dutch] [re-read]
39. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Brought Down the House (The Cat Who 25) [Dutch] [re-read]
40. P. Nowee – Arendsoog en de man zonder verleden {Eagle-Eye and the Man without a Past} [Dutch]

Arendsoog (Eagle-Eye) is a series of adventure books for boys, written a long time ago (I have about ten of these books that used to belong to my father when he was young). They are about a young rancher in 19th century America with his Native American friend White Feather. It’s a bit like those Karl May books but then really geared towards kids. It’s pretty obvious they were written a long time ago based on how the books portray White Feather, but if you ignore that it’s a nice read to kill a little time. I recently bought this one (and three others) for a few euros. They are cheap mass-market reprints of the older works and suit their purpose (as a quick bedtime read) perfectly.

41. Stephenie Meyer – Twilight (Twilight 1)
42. Stephenie Meyer – New Moon (Twilight 2)
43. P.Nowee – Arizona Arendsoog {Arizona Eagle-Eye} [Dutch]

44. P. Nowee – Arendsoog. Mexicaans avontuur {Eagle-Eye. Mexican Adventure} [Dutch]

Booklist: 2007

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Explanation of format and markers is here.

I didn’t read anything in January so there’s only 11 bookclots. Also, can you tell I love Discworld? 😀

2007
01. Arthur Conan Doyle – The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
02. Arthur Conan Doyle – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

03. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6)
04. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter 1) [Dutch] [re-read]
05. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber (Harry Potter 2) [Dutch] [re-read]
06. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter 3) [Dutch] [re-read]
07. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter 4) [Dutch] [re-read]
08. J.K. Rowling – Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) [re-read]

09. Terry Pratchett – Interesting Times (Discworld 17) [re-read]
10. Terry Pratchett – Thief of Time (Discworld 26) [re-read]
11. Terry Pratchett – Maskerade (Discworld 18) [re-read]
12. Terry Pratchett – Going Postal (Discworld 29) [re-read]
13. David & Leigh Eddings – Polgara the Sorceress [re-read]

14. Terry Pratchett – Pyramids (Discworld ) [re-read]
15. Henny Thijssing-Boer – Jouw liefde is mijn geluk (Geluk is als de wind; Een huis met open deuren & Leven met jou) [Dutch] [re-read]

A book of my mothers’ that I had read when I was about 14ish and decided to re-read. It’s what the Dutch call a streekroman, which is kinda like a romance novel in that they center on the relationship and they always get each other in the end but these very specifically take place in rural countryside areas (and often on farms that regularly feature whole dynasties) or small(er) towns. It’s still being written today but the period it takes place in is usually some years ago without all the comfort of nowadays, this can be all the way back to early 20th century or as late as the 60s, 70s or 80s, as long as we’ve not entered that whole computerised everything era.

16. Duistere Parels [Dutch] <anthology>
17. Terry Pratchett – The Colour of Magic (Discworld 1) [re-read]

18. Laurell K. Hamilton – Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake 1) [re-read]
19. Laurell K. Hamilton – The Laughing Corpse (Anita Blake 2)
20. Robert Louis Stevenson – Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
21. Terry Pratchett – The Wee Free Men (Discworld YA 1 ) [re-read]
22. Laurell K. Hamilton – Circus of the Damned (Anita Blake 3)
23. Tanith Lee – Biting the Sun <Contains Don’t Bite the Sun & Drinking Sapphire Wine>

24. Laurell K. Hamilton – The Lunatic Cafe (Anita Blake 4)
25. Terry Pratchett – A Hat Full of Sky (Discworld YA 2)
26. Charlaine Harris – Dead Until Dark (Southern Vampire 1)
27. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Could Read backwards (The Cat Who 1) [Dutch] [re-read]
28. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Played Post-Office (The Cat Who 6) [Dutch] [re-read]
29. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (The Cat Who 7) [Dutch] [re-read]
30. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Went Underground (The Cat Who 8) [Dutch] [re-read]
31. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Robbed the Bank (The Cat Who 22) [Dutch] [re-read]
32. Lilian Jackson Braun – The Cat Who Had 14 Tales (The Cat Who Special) <short stories>
33. Carrie Vaughn – Kitty and The Midnight Hour (Kitty 1)
34. Patricia Briggs – Moon Called (Mercy Thompson 1)
35. Rachel Vincent – Stray (Faythe 1)

36. Kim Harrison – Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows 1) [re-read]
37. Neil Gaiman – Fragile Things
38. Kim Harrison – The Good, The Bad And The Undead (The Hollows 2) [re-read]

39. Dolf Verroen – De verschrikkelijke schoolmeester {The Horrible School Teacher} [Dutch] [re-read] <Children’s book. I read it when I was a wee one and re-read it cause I was, at the time, studying to be an elementary school teacher. Same goes for the next two books.>
40. John Marsden – So Much To Tell You [Dutch] [re-read]

41. Ellen Tijsinger – Nikolaj [Dutch] [re-read]
42. Terry Pratchett – Wintersmith (Discworld YA 3)

43. Kim Harrison – Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows 3) [re-read]
44. Kim Harrison – A Fistful of Charms (The Hollows 4)

45. Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner [Dutch]

Booklist: 2006

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We’re getting closer, slowly…. Again, for explanation of format and markers, see here.

I didn’t read anything in January and June hence the number of bookclots being only 10.
Also, I know I read Terry Pratchett’s Monstrous Regiment this year but can’t find it on the list. Probably because I forgot to write it down at first and then couldn’t remember where it should go.

2006
01. Terry Pratchett – The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents (Discworld YA 0)
02. Maarten Rijkens – I Always Get My Sin [Dutch] <funny little book about mistakes Dutch folk make when speaking English>

03. Colin White & Laurie Boucke – The UnDutchables
04. Judith Barad & Ed Robertson – The Ethics of Star Trek

05. Ursula LeGuin – The Earthsea Quartet
06. Fantastic Adventures January 1943 <really big magazine I got from a second hand shop>

07. Kim Harrison – Dead Witch Walking (The Hollows 1)
08. Steve Gallagher – Saturn 3
09. Bruna SF Jaarboek Ganymedes 1 [Dutch] <anthology>
10. Dan Simmons – Hyperion (Hyperion 1)
11. Kim Harrison – The Good, The Bad And The Undead (The Hollows 2)
12. Kim Harrison – Every Which Way But Dead (The Hollows 3)

13. Dan Simmons – Fall of Hyperion (Hyperion 2)

14. Terry Pratchett – Jingo (Discworld 21) [re-read]

15. Maria Oomkes – Bidden in de theedoek {Praying in a Tea Towel} [Dutch]
16. Ken Macleod – Learning the World
17. Maria Oomkes – Het huis dat lachtte {The House that Laughed} [Dutch]
18. Terry Pratchett – The Fifth Elephant (Discworld 24)

19. Terry Pratchett – Thud! (Discworld 30)
20. Star Trek – The Case of the Colonist’s Corpse

21. Dan Simmons – Endymion (Endymion 1)
22. Dan Simmons – Rise of Endymion (Endymion 2)

23. Maria Oomkes – Mijn ei en ik {My Egg and I} [Dutch]
24. Star Trek:TNG – X Planet (X-Men Crossover)
25. Star Trek:TNG – 5 – Strike Zone
26. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – De avonturen van Sherlock Holmes {The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes} [Dutch]
27. Star Trek:TNG – Immortal Coil
28. Star Trek:TNG – I, Q