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Monday, December 9, 2013

The Books of November

Comics

Fables: Fairest In All the Land  (2013) Bill Willingham et al (8/10)

 

Mystery

Jar City (2000/2004) Arnaldur Indridason translated by Bernard Scudder (7/10)
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie  (2009) Alan Bradley (8/10)
Treasure Hunt (2010/2013) Andrea Camilleri translated by Stephen Sartarelli (8/10)
Bad Blood (2013) Dana Stabenow (1/10)

 

Fantasy

Written In Red  (2013) Anne Bishop (8.5/10)
Chimes at Midnight  (2013) Seanan McGuire (6/10)
Fated  (2012) Benedict Jacka (6.5/10)
Deadly Descendant  (2012) Jenna Black (6/10)
Dark Descendant (2011) Jenna Black (7/10)
Libriomancer (2012) Jim C. Hines (6/10)
Blood and Bullets (2012) James R. Tuck (6/10)

 

Short Story

Scarlet Sails  (2013) TS Rhodes (7/10)

 

Anthology

Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives  (2001) edited by Justin Gustainis (7/10)
The Collected Short Stories  (2013) Dana Stabenow (8/10)

Fifteen books this month, most of which were read at the end of the month.

As far as good books, mysteries beat out fantasies by a long shot, with the exception of the first book I read in November, Anne Bishop’s Written in Red (Thanks Neurondoc!)

Genre-wise, fantasy and mystery were pretty easily matched. That might not hold for December, because I’ve started reading some mysteries series I picked up cheap for the kindle and REALLY like them. They follow the trend of mysteries set in other countries and initially written in a language other than English. So I’ll get to redo that list soon.

Anthology 2
Comic 1
Fantasy 9
Mystery 7
Romance 1

Format? Once again eBooks blew away all other formats. All paper books were new releases of series I have been reading for years and plan to keep getting in paper format.

Paperback 1
Trade Paperback 2
eBook 12

Gender split for the month was pretty even.

Male 6
Female 6
Initials 1
Anthology 2

8 female authors, 6 male authors, and an anthology heavily weighted towards female authors. Pretty good.

There you go. That’s last month’s round-up. Remember, if you click through to Amazon from the links on the reviews, I get some pennies towards MORE BOOKS!

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