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Eleven-month anniversary, and New Reviews
August 1, 2002 (11:07 PM) ( link )

ADDED reviews of the following:

  1. Mark Bowden's Blackhawk Down
  2. Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy (at last!!!)
  3. Robert Charles Wilson's Harvest
  4. Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus
  5. Vonda McIntyre's Dreamsnake
  6. John Gardner's Grendel
  7. Guy Gavriel Kay's The Fionavar Tapestry
Whew! I can't believe I'm finally finished with A Suitable Boy--I've been meaning to read that book since last October, and finally it's done and written up for good.

Today marks the 11-month anniversary of this book-review site. In the last month I read 9 new books and wrote 7 reviews (lumping together the three Fionavar Tapestry books), making for a total of 58 books read in the last 11 months and 89 reviews written.

Right now I am reading an unusual pair of books: Glen Cook's The Dragon Never Sleeps, a weird but interesting science-fiction tale, and Barry Hughart's superb Bridge of Birds, "a novel of an ancient China that never was" that is charming, exciting, and hilarious. Hughart's book is a bit too short to be truly satisfying, but nonetheless I am glad to have picked it up.

This is the last month of summer for me. Hopefully I'll be able to stuff down a whole lot of books in the next few weeks.

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