I've been doing a fair amount of reading this month.

September:
( The books )

July:

( The list of books )

It's both a couple of days late, and very short. I blame the latter on the fact that several books I was reading, I just abandoned, and also I've been reading my way through the J.R.R. Tolkien Chronology, as well as Tacitus's Annals. Both are liable to take a few more months (3 months and only on Book 4 for Tacitus, so far).

June
( The Books )

Looks like I did a bit of reading this month. It's a good thing the list is behind a cut.

( The Books )

The Adept by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris
Contemporary Fantasy
The first book in a good series, which I can't even find the words to describe. However, I do find it to be a series that I re-read regularly.

The Adept: Lodge of the Lynx by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris
Contemporary Fantasy
Second in The Adept series. I just can't find the words to describe the book though. However, the authors have done a good job at gathering the readers in and holding on to them.

The Adept: The Templar Treasure by Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris
Contemporary Fantasy
The third book in the Adept series, this is one of the books which sparked my interest in the Templars and Medieval History. One of the repeating themes of the series is the idea of reincarnation, the particular theory used in this series being discussed in detail in the first few pages of this book. In some ways this book is the odd one out of the series as none of the vilains from the other books made an appearance in this one.

The New Spring by Robert Jordan
Fantasy
It's been long enough since I read any of the other books in the Wheel of Time series that I'd forgotten a lot of the small things which weren't explained in this book. Still it is a good story and a good reintroduction to that world. Now I've got to read the other books in the series.

The Night Lives On by Walter Lord
Non-Fiction
A book which looks at the aftermath of the Titanic disaster, as well as what led up to the sinking as well as other matters. Interesting information on the legal issues of liability and compensation, the changes in life-boat regulations, the investigations, the discovery of the wreck, etc. A very interesting chapter on the musicians and what they would have been playing, among other things.

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan
Fantasy
The first in the Wheel of Time saga. Though this is a good story, I kept feeling as though it was a bit of a Tolkien rip-off. However, it does set up a fairly interesting world to explore.

The Scent of Magic by Andre Norton
Fantasy
Unique is the first word I could come up with for this book. Magic, Good and Evil are all detectable mostly through scent. Well worth the read.

The House Between the Worlds by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Fantasy
Despite the authorship, I really couldn't get into this book at all.

Dune by Frank Herbert
Science Fiction
The first book in the series. When I read it and a couple of the other books in the series about ten years ago, I felt that while the first book was good, the later books had lost what made the world unique. I can't say for sure about that yet, now, but Dune was a good read, if a bit disturbing. The world is interesting,, being a weird mix of feudalism and high-tech, but the attitudes of the characters made me uncomfortable. It seemed to me that too often, people were being treated as commodities and not people. Secret breeding programs, Mentats and concubines.\

Nightseer by Laurel K. Hamilton
Fantasy
An interesting story, but a few too many loose ends and questions remained unanswered for my tastes. However, as it was supposed to be her first nove, it's pretty darned good.

This is the monthly book list for September:

( September's Books )

August:

( This month's books )

I'd say I've been doing a lot of reading this month :)
( The book list )

Admittedly, this one's a day late, but here's the June book list. It's a fairly long one too. There's going to be more science fiction and Andre Norton in July as well as I was at a garage sale and got about thirty books this month.

June:

( List of books )

It's short this month, I know. Blame it on a combination of the fact that I'm working and I have also been reading a thousand page novel, First Man in Rome. Expect to see that one on next month's list.
( The Book List )

It's been a Mercedes Lackey month, obviously.
( April Books List )

The first month of the book list. Take them as recommendations or not.

( March Book List )

I was reminded today why I shouldn't be left unsupervised at booksales, especially library ones. 17 new (actually used) books/videos and nowhere to put them (no, not quite that bad, actually I think I have a half shelf open somewhere). What else do you expect when the books are either 25 or fifty cents each?

Andre Norton, David Weber, John Ringo, Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Stewart and L.E. Modessit, just to name a few of the authors. The rest were misc historical fiction that I can't remember the author names, but the books looked good.

I'm working on a website update to go up sometime soon.

The well known science fiction author Andre Norton died yesterday.

This is the paper with one of the best articles about her:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/living/people/11162011.htm

Andre Norton was known for her series about Witch World. In total, she wrote over a hundred and thirty books during her lifetime.

Many readers will miss her.

The library sale last week was productive (in a way). I'm now hooked on Andre Norton's Witch World series. Only problem with that is that the series started being published in the early '60's. Try finding the early books in the library. Oh well. Guess the second hand bookstores are going to be getting what little spending money I have for a while.

On the computer front:
The printer problem has been fixed.
A new power cord has been ordered, so maybe next week I will be able to move forward on the repairs question. I think this is cord # 5 by the way.

Got the first draft of the term paper finished in time (think midnight last night).

Did my regular run to my favourite second-hand book store last week. Took in two boxes of books and picked up the following:
Marion Zimmer Bradley:
Hunters of the Red Moon
Survivors
The Bloody Sun

Harry Turtledove:
The North Kingdom
Thessalonia

Andre Norton:
Fur Magic

Mercedes Lackey:
The Black Swan

Misc:
Tacitus (translation)
Dante The Divine Comedy the Inferno (The Musa translation. Anyone have any opinions on whether this or the Sayers translation is better?)
The Canterbury Tales (translation)