May book roundup
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bedlamsbardSeriously, every month I sit down and I'm like, I totally read more books this month than I did last month and I never did. Though to be fair this month I had (a) major papers due and (b) wrist pain that makes it difficult to hold a book (not that that stopped me).
The complete list (finished):
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, Edward Luttwak
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome, Donald G. Kyle
Empire of Honour, J.E. Lendon
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic, Tom Holland
Beyond Celts, Germans, and Scythians, Peter S. Wells
The Barbarians Speak, Peter S. Wells
The Bane Chronicles: The Runaway Queen, Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson (ebook, novella)
The Minority Council, Kate Griffin
Feed, Mira Grant
Deadline, Mira Grant
Books in progress (as of June 1):
Calling on Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
A Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer (abridged audiobook, read by Richard Armitage)
Rebels and Traitors, Lindsey Davis
The Gentry: Stories of the English, Adam Nicolson
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece, Dennis D. Hughes
Blackout, Mira Grant
Usually I list them in order of the dates I started them (which is how they're tracked in my Excel file), but I put them in order that I finished them this month. Okay, I think we can safely see at what point I finished my papers, ehehehehehe. (I'm reading that human sacrifice book for fun. NO REALLY. Also, for some weird reason I keep thinking that it was written by a woman and then being surprised when I check and see that the author is a man instead.)
Oh my god, can I talk about how good the Newsflesh trilogy (Feed, Deadline, and Blackout) are? So good. SO GOOD. I read them despite the fact I was actually in excruciating pain the entire time because I couldn't find a comfortable way to hold those giant paperbacks. I just couldn't stop! (I've finished Blackout, it's just that I finished it yesterday rather than on May 31.) SO GOOD. Don't be put off by the fact that they have zombies in, they are SO GOOD. They do my absolute favorite thing, but I can't tell you what it is because it's spoilery.
I am actually going home this month so I can finally finish rereading Calling on Dragons and take it off this list, finally. Maybe I will actually woman up and read that last thirty pages of The Hobbit. (Maybe I just don't want to read the scene where HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN, okay?)
Rubicon is a really good book about the equal parts hysterical, horrible, and totally traumatizing shenanigans that led to the fall of the Roman Republic. I have a lot of feels about the Roman Republic, okay? The Late Republic is full of lulz which have to be read to be believed.
I also read Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon, which isn't on the main list because it's a TPB and I didn't have it in my Excel file. Whoops.
From now on out I'm on pure research and writing, rather than on classes, so we'll see what that does to my reading lists.
Okay, and for the books I bought in May list (asterisks mean I already own a copy):
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien*
River Cottage Veg Everyday, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Black Diamonds, Catherine Bailey
Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon, Matt Fraction
Outlaw, Angus Donald
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Official Movie Guide, Brian Sibley
Deadline, Mira Grant
Grillhouse: Gastropub at Home, Ross Dobson
The Vintage Tea Party Year, Angel Adoree
John Whaite Bakes, John Whaite
Blackout, Mira Grant
The Ides of April, Lindsey Davis
So what I can tell you about that list is that I was definitely stress-buying books this month, though, heh, at least I read some of the books on that list. Also I went back to buying cookbooks (four. FOUR), which I was trying to avoid because I don't cook from cookbooks as much as I wish I did and I own too many of them as it is.
We'll see how June goes. I'm going home for most of it, which will hopefully lead to me buying fewer books and reading more. Some of them will hopefully be for my dissertation, please gods.
The complete list (finished):
The Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, Edward Luttwak
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome, Donald G. Kyle
Empire of Honour, J.E. Lendon
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic, Tom Holland
Beyond Celts, Germans, and Scythians, Peter S. Wells
The Barbarians Speak, Peter S. Wells
The Bane Chronicles: The Runaway Queen, Cassandra Clare & Maureen Johnson (ebook, novella)
The Minority Council, Kate Griffin
Feed, Mira Grant
Deadline, Mira Grant
Books in progress (as of June 1):
Calling on Dragons, Patricia C. Wrede
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
A Convenient Marriage, Georgette Heyer (abridged audiobook, read by Richard Armitage)
Rebels and Traitors, Lindsey Davis
The Gentry: Stories of the English, Adam Nicolson
Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece, Dennis D. Hughes
Blackout, Mira Grant
Usually I list them in order of the dates I started them (which is how they're tracked in my Excel file), but I put them in order that I finished them this month. Okay, I think we can safely see at what point I finished my papers, ehehehehehe. (I'm reading that human sacrifice book for fun. NO REALLY. Also, for some weird reason I keep thinking that it was written by a woman and then being surprised when I check and see that the author is a man instead.)
Oh my god, can I talk about how good the Newsflesh trilogy (Feed, Deadline, and Blackout) are? So good. SO GOOD. I read them despite the fact I was actually in excruciating pain the entire time because I couldn't find a comfortable way to hold those giant paperbacks. I just couldn't stop! (I've finished Blackout, it's just that I finished it yesterday rather than on May 31.) SO GOOD. Don't be put off by the fact that they have zombies in, they are SO GOOD. They do my absolute favorite thing, but I can't tell you what it is because it's spoilery.
I am actually going home this month so I can finally finish rereading Calling on Dragons and take it off this list, finally. Maybe I will actually woman up and read that last thirty pages of The Hobbit. (Maybe I just don't want to read the scene where HORRIBLE THINGS HAPPEN, okay?)
Rubicon is a really good book about the equal parts hysterical, horrible, and totally traumatizing shenanigans that led to the fall of the Roman Republic. I have a lot of feels about the Roman Republic, okay? The Late Republic is full of lulz which have to be read to be believed.
I also read Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon, which isn't on the main list because it's a TPB and I didn't have it in my Excel file. Whoops.
From now on out I'm on pure research and writing, rather than on classes, so we'll see what that does to my reading lists.
Okay, and for the books I bought in May list (asterisks mean I already own a copy):
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien*
River Cottage Veg Everyday, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Black Diamonds, Catherine Bailey
Hawkeye: My Life as a Weapon, Matt Fraction
Outlaw, Angus Donald
Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Official Movie Guide, Brian Sibley
Deadline, Mira Grant
Grillhouse: Gastropub at Home, Ross Dobson
The Vintage Tea Party Year, Angel Adoree
John Whaite Bakes, John Whaite
Blackout, Mira Grant
The Ides of April, Lindsey Davis
So what I can tell you about that list is that I was definitely stress-buying books this month, though, heh, at least I read some of the books on that list. Also I went back to buying cookbooks (four. FOUR), which I was trying to avoid because I don't cook from cookbooks as much as I wish I did and I own too many of them as it is.
We'll see how June goes. I'm going home for most of it, which will hopefully lead to me buying fewer books and reading more. Some of them will hopefully be for my dissertation, please gods.
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