End of month haul

For some reason, June is always incredibly busy for me. It's historically the most likely month in which I don't post anything here at all except reviews (and sometimes not even that). But I'm going to tell you about what books I bought (or were given to me) on the very last day of the month to break the pattern of no journal postings in June.

Ted Chiang — Arrival (Stories of Your Life) (sff collection)
Eoin Colfer — Artemis Fowl (sff)
Philip K. Dick — The Man Who Japed (sff)
Yoon Ha Lee — Raven Strategem (sff)
Paul K. Longmore — Why I Burned My Book (nonfiction)
Melina Marchetta — The Piper's Son (mainstream)
Jules Verne — For the Flag (sff, sort of)

This is a more than usually eclectic mix.

The Chiang is his Stories of Your Life collection reissued under the title of Arrival to cash in on the huge success of the movie based on one of his short stories. I'm not much of a short fiction reader, but I've heard so many good things about Chiang that I'm going to give it a try.

The Longmore is a set of essays about disability rights that has been on my radar for a while. I finally got pushed into buying it (plus the first Artemis Fowl book and the Marchetta) because I've been reading back through every review Light has written. (I wish I were even close to that amusingly snarky in reviews, and she manages to say in a few paragraphs what usually takes me a whole essay.)

Finally, the Dick and the Verne were gifts from a co-worker from a used book store in Ireland. Minor works by both authors, but nice, old copies of the books.

Posted: 2017-06-30 20:44 — Why no comments?

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