February, March, April, May, June

[muninnhuginn]

[the massive update of things read and some things done]



February
Read:

• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Monkey by Ruth Nestvold (Daily Science Fiction)
• Biomass by Alexander Stanmyer (Daily Science Fiction)
• Angry Child by Benjamin Rosenbaum (Daily Science Fiction)
• The Steel Throne by Eric James Stone (Daily Science Fiction)
• Magic Enough by Chuck Von Nordheim (Daily Science Fiction)
• The Man in the High Castle by Philip K Dick (courtesy of alitalf's clearout)
• The Effect of Centrifugal Forces by  Maureen F. McHugh
• Waiting Room by Olivia Berrier (Everday Fiction)
• Cloudburst by Robert Reed (Daily Science Fiction)
• The Age of Three Stars by Kenneth Schneyer (Daily Science Fiction)
• Her Words Like Hunting Vixens Spring by Brooke Bolander (Lightspeed)*****
• The Pencil of Truth by Shamus Maxwell (DSF)
• Joey LeRath's Rocketship by Julian Mortimer Smith (DSF)
• Pulse by Stephen Gaskell (DSF)
• In Her Arms of Dresden Pale by Damien Walters-Grintalis (DSF)
• Nanomite by Patricia Duffy Novak (DSF)
• Digital Blues by Greg Mellor (DSF)
• Nilly by Benjamin Rosenbaum (DSF)
• Dealing in Futures by Joe Haldeman (ex-alitalf)
• Infinite Dreams by Joe Haldeman (ex-alitalf)
• Saurus by John Van Pelt (DSF)
• Mother, Crone, Maiden by Cat Hellisen
• Walk in the Light While There Is Light by Matthew Cheney
• Audition with the Vampire by Lyndon Perry
• Storytellers by Jen Brubacher (DSF)
• The Prisoners by D.K. Latta (DSF)

Submitted:

• iCMA41

March
Read:

• The Film-makers of Mars by Geoff Ryman
• The Day They Came by Kali Wallace (Lightspeed Magazine)
• Lost Horizon by James Hilton
• Thanatos Beach by James Morrow
• No Gift of Words by Annie Bellet (DSF)
• Armadale by Wilkie Collins
• Memories of My Mother by Ken Liu (DSF)
• Guaranteed to Work by Lee Hallison (DSF)
• Fields of Gold by Rachel Swirsky (http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/03/fields-of-gold)
• Prudence and the Dragon by Zen Cho
• The Woman Who Shook the World-Tree by Michael Swanwick
• San Francisco Archipelago
• Mutant Menagerie by Shane D. Rhinewald
• The Sigma Structure Symphony by Gregory Benford

Submitted:

• TMA01
• iCMA42

April
Read:

• After by C.L. Holland (DSF)
• Back In My Day by Stacey Danielle Lepper (DSF)
• Rust by Steven Saus (DSF)
• Older, Wiser, Time Traveler by M. Bennardo (DSF)
• Nameless by Mari Ness (DSF)
• The Cage by Alyx Dellamonica
• A Slice of 3.141592653589793238462643 by Oliver Buckram (DSF)
• On 20468 Petercook by Andy Duncan
• The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Christopher Owen
• Objects in Space by Alex Livingston (DSF)
• Attila the Bun and the Lost Paradigm by Samantha Memi
• Infested by Stephen V. Ramey (DSF)
• Death and Taxes by Kat Otis
• A Special Day by Shannon Fay (DSF)
• Undone by Greg Porter (DSF)
• H. P. Lovecraft Answers Your Relationship Questions  by James Warner
• Last Bus to Woodstock by Colin Dexter
• Mad Cats and Englishmen by Laura Anne Gilman (DSF)
• Last Seen Wearing by Colin Dexter
• You've Ruined This For Me by Ewan C. Forbes (DSF)
• Ella and The Man by K.S. Clay (DSF)
• You Can't Come Here Any More by Luc Reid (DSF)
• Dolly at the End of the World by Amanda C. Davis (DSF)
• The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter
• Diatra by Kevin Pickett (DSF)
• Broken Hearts by Ted Lietz
• An Old Acquaintance by K.G. Jewell (DSF)
• Dancing in the Dark by Stephanie Burgis (DSF)

Submitted:

• TMA02

May
Read:

• Clem by Cassandra Rose Clarke (DSF)
• The Dead of Jericho by Colin Dexter
• The Riddle of the Third Mile by Colin Dexter
• About Fairies by Pat Murphy
• The Final Summoning by Frank Cavallo
• The Secret of Annexe 3 by Colin Dexter
• Dragoman by Helen Jackson (DSF)
• Monsters Big and Small by Jakob Drud (DSF)
• The Wench is Dead by Colin Dexter
• The Dome by Gregory Marlow
• The Numbers by Timothy Moore (DSF)
• The Portal Plague by Dinesh Rao
• Wishes by Patricia Ash (DSF)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Spaceman by Peter Wood
• Pocket by Elizabeth Creith (DSF)
• The Jewel that was Ours by Colin Dexter
• Lost White Knight by Sean Jones
• Different Kinds of Darkness by David Langford
• The Cross-Time Accountants Fail To Kill Hitler Because Chuck Berry Does The Twist by C.C. Finlay
• Brief Interviews With Therianthropes by Marissa Lingen & Alec Austin (DSF)
• The Girl She Truly Was by Lauren K. Moody (DSF)
• Our Human by Adam-Troy Castro
• Sapience and Maternal Instincts by Krystal Claxton (DSF)

Submitted:

• iCMA43

June
Read:

• The Time of Their Visitation by Lisa Nohealani Morton (DSF)
• The Way Through the Woods by Colin Dexter
• Metal and Flesh by Steven R. Stewart (DSF)
• Fairy Tales by Eliza Victoria (DSF)
• Raptured by Ted Lietz
• The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter
• Lady Into Fox by David Garnett
• Death is now my Neighbour by Colin Dexter
• Faerie Food by Kat Otis (DSF)
• The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter
• Ryan's World by Paul Ebbs (DSF)
• Deadly Quiet on the Western Front by Fábio Fernandes
• Peas, Plots, and Peril by Melissa Mead (DSF)
• Escape Route by JR Hume
• Morse's Greatest Mystery and other stories by Colin Dexter
• The Dream of the Night-Shift Power Worker by Edoardo Albert (DSF)
• Answer Man by A. J. Barr (DSF)

Submitted:

• TMA03

Hurrah! (And sighs of relief) I've "done" Dexter's Morse. Can't say it was an enjoyable experience.

Comments

[coth.livejournal.com]

We have just watched the first three episodes of Morse on DVD. We have no plans to watch any more.

And respect for things read and things done!

[muninnhuginn]

I enjoyed Morse on TV and Looby Loo rather enjoys Lewis, but the books... I have thoughts about the books. But I really cannot say I enjoyed them.

[coth.livejournal.com]

We quite liked Lewis. But B picks holes in the plots, and I think they could all (these three, at any rate) be summarised as 'torture Morse' - I don't like torture.

No plans to read them either.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I was just going to (a) say that I like Colin and I would watch Morse occasionally for John Thaw and views of Oxford colleges, but I never enjoyed the books: which as you didn't either, I can't resist asking (b), why read them all?

[muninnhuginn]

(a) Thaw plus Oxford (for all that I studied at and live in the other place) is almost unbeatable: Lawrence Fox has the edge, maybe.

(b) (i) Masochism?
(ii) Completism?
(iii) Curiosity as to whether I would like later ones better than the first few
(iv) Curiosity as to whether the TV impressions would wear off and I'd appreciate the novels for themselves
(v) As an experiment in testing my reactions as a particular reader of mainly sf/fantasy to writing in another genre
(vi) Because they were there.

I'm going to have to sit down and write this up properly, aren't I? Even if it means re-reading bits. (Did I mention masochism?)