February books

1. The Princess Bride, William Goldman (audio)


2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (audio)


3. Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, *Lois McMaster Bujold
   SQUEEEEE!!! Old-people romance! Polyamory! Lashings of Vorkosiverse backstory!
   And bonus, if Bujold had set out to write a book to piss off the Morose Young Canines she couldn't have done it better than this. LOL


4. *Lifelode, Jo Walton (paper)


5. The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, Douglas Adams (audio)


6. *That Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed, Charles E. Cobb, Jr. (paper)


7. Revisionary, Jim C. Hines


8. Hiding in Plain Sight, +Nuruddin Farah (Somalia)


9. The Shameful State, +Sony Labou Tansi (Republic of Congo) (abandoned 38%)
   I just couldn't cope with the grossness: constant gruesome deaths, incessant references to herniated balls, etc. Not to mention that I still don't know who the first-person narrator was meant to be, and sentences would change from first to third person and back again with no discernable rhyme or reason. I'm sure there was some sort of literary purpose to it, but it flummoxed me. Moving on.


10. Life, the Universe, and Everything, Douglas Adams (audio)


11. So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Douglas Adams (audio)


12. *All the Birds in the Sky, Charlie Jane Anders


13. Gravity's Rainbow, +Thomas Pynchon (USA) (abandoned 2%)
    I've been using a random number generator on my Reading the World spreadsheet, and Pynchon came up. I've never read anything by him before, and now I know why. Pretentious writing about not very nice people in ugly situations. Blech.