Updating the book log...

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... but not downgrading the back log. (I did buy more jewelry than books at worldcon, honest.)

1. Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
2. Ulrich von Liechtenstein, The Service of Ladies
3. Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
4. ed. The Lifted Veil, 19th Century Women's Stories
5. Bremner, Bird, Fortune, You Are Here
6. Haruki Murakami,Norwegian Wood
   This fell off the list (a peril of using two PCs).
7. Polly Bird, How to Be an Effective School Governor
8. Jean Estoril, Ballet Twins
9. Andre Norton, Judgment on Janus
10. Granta 89, The Factory
    
11. Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
12. Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor
13. Patrick McGrath, Dr Haggard's Disease
14. James Barclay, Dreamthief
15. Paul Cornell, British Summertime
16. Ken Macleod, Dark Light
17. Evelyn Lord, The Knights Templar in Britain
18. Eric Brown, Deep Future
19. Japanese Death Poems
20. Jon Courtney Grimwood, Felaheen
21. Iain M Banks, The Algebraist
22. Elizabeth Bear, Hammered
23. Granta 90
    About the country, if I'm remembering right. Fairly forgettable.
24. Ian Rankin, The Falls
    I borrowed this from the huge pile of Rankins at my dads out of curiosity: Ian Rankin's always come over on TV as sharp, incisive and I was intrigued by how his fiction would read.Dad suggested The Falls as being a good one, so I went with the recommendation. Apart from returning to Sherlock Holmes irregularly, and the odd loan of a P D James, I don't read detective/crime fiction much. I generally enjoy it when I do, but I don't find myself drawn to it that much. I was disappointed. There was not much mystery and the procedures gone through weren't gripping enough. More worryingly,the shifts in point of view left me uncertain as to who knew what (crucial in a fiction about searching for the truth) and even gave me the impression that characters had access to the contents of each others' minds.
25. Jon Courtney Grimwood, redRobe
    Far more fun.