The entries marked with a (*) are rereads.
In what follows:
- Exclamation mark: Definitely try to read this if you can
- 5 stars: Extraordinary
- 4 stars: Really good
- 3 stars: Good, or a fun read; if you have time and nothing else to read
- 2 stars: Ennnn.....nnnnh
- 1 star: What was the author thinking?
- N/A: Rating not applicable
Do note that my ratings are based on either how much
entertainment/escape I had reading the book or how much new stuff I
learned/noticed while reading it. This isn't a literary merit rating,
except maybe for the exclamation mark books. Which might be exclamation
mark for a wide variety of reasons as well, including "it's a classic,"
and "it details a worldview/scientific information that I think everyone
should be aware of."
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January 2009
| The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human
Nature | S. Pinker |
Nonfiction: How we think and perceive
things, based on the features of language.
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| White Teeth | Z. Smith |
Modern literary fiction: Immigrants in England.
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| In the Best Families | R. Stout |
Mystery: A Nero Wolfe book.
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| Prisoner's Base | R. Stout |
Mystery: A Nero Wolfe book.
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| Mistborn | B. Sanderson |
Fantasy: V. 1 of the Mistborn trilogy.
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February 2009
| The Gift of Fear | G. de Becker |
Non-fiction: Personal safety.
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| The Well of Ascension | B. Sanderson |
Fantasy: V. 2 of the Mistborn trilogy.
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| The Witchfinder | L. Estleman |
Mystery
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| Catnap | C.N. Douglas |
Mystery with a cat theme
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March 2009
| Black Orchids | R. Stout |
A Nero Wolfe mystery
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| Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial
Killers for the FBI | R. K. Ressler and T. Schachtman |
Non-fiction
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| The Rubber Band | R. Stout |
A Nero Wolfe mystery
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April 2009
| The Red Box | R. Stout |
A Nero Wolfe mystery
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| Nemesis | A. Christie |
A Miss Marple mystery
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| Peril at End House | A. Christie |
A Hercule Poirot mystery
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| Devil in the Gateway | M. Carey et al. |
Lucifer, v.1
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| Pussyfoot | C.N. Douglas |
Mystery with a cat theme
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May 2009
| Monsters and Children | M. Carey et al. |
Lucifer, v.2
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| A Dalliance with the Damned | M. Carey et al. |
Lucifer, v.3
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| Gardens of the Moon | S. Erikson. |
Malazan books, v.1
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| Watership Down | R. Adams |
Rabbits.
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| Agyar | S. Brust |
Fantasy, standalone.
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| Consider Phlebas | I. M. Banks |
The Culture novels, v.1: science-fiction.
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June 2009
| Just Six Numbers | M. Rees |
Non-fiction; cosmology.
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I sometimes prefer to let some time elapse before I rate a book, to see
how well it "ages" in memory.
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