More Birthday Books
Nov. 28th, 2005 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
muninnhuginnThis would seem to mark an end to a brief, tho' chunkily fed, fiction binge, but for the fictions in the grammatical treatise.
- Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase
- Ulrich von Liechtenstein, The Service of Ladies
- Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
- ed. The Lifted Veil, 19th Century Women's Stories
- Bremner, Bird, Fortune, You Are Here
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
- Polly Bird, How to Be an Effective School Governor
- Jean Estoril, Ballet Twins
- Andre Norton, Judgment on Janus
- Granta 89, The Factory
- Gene Wolfe, The Claw of the Conciliator
- Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor
- Patrick McGrath, Dr Haggard's Disease
- James Barclay, Dreamthief
- Paul Cornell, British Summertime
- Ken Macleod, Dark Light
- Evelyn Lord, The Knights Templar in Britain
- Eric Brown, Deep Future
- Japanese Death Poems
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Felaheen
- Iain M Banks, The Algebraist
- Elizabeth Bear, Hammered
- Granta 90
- Ian Rankin, The Falls
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood, redRobe
- Angus McAllister, The Canongate Strangler
- Allen Steele, Coyote
- Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch
- Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade
- Granta 91, Wish You Were Here
- Michel Houellebecq, H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life
- Bernard Lewis, The Assassins
- Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
- Jeanette Winter, The Librarian of Basra
- Allen Steele, Coyote Rising
- Neil Asher, The Skinner
- Karen Elizabeth Gordon, The Deluxe Transitive Vampire
Invigorating. Some examples of US English maybe didn't ring entirely true to English ears. But the Gothic illustrations and the wicked allusions to ongoing shenanigans! Joy.
The shade of sadness we call the blues can take a singular or plural verb, since anyone who has them can't be bothered to look it up, or to be consistent about whether it is--or they are--in pieces or in a solid hopeless mass."Agreements", from The Deluxe Transitive Vampire, Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Coming into a clearing in the forest that did not appear on the map, they tilted their puzzled heads heavenward to discover a corresponding tear in the sky."Phrases", op. cit.
