One of the things I used this blog for was recording the books that I read. Unfortunately, keeping track of them in that much detail has taken too much of my time, so I'm abandoning that, at least for a while.

I'd rather read use the time to read, or perhaps put other things on the blog.

• Magic Study, by Maria V. Snyder, copyright 2006; ISBN-13 978-0-373-80249-4.
• Fire Study, by Maria V. Snyder, copyright 2008; ISBN-13 978-0-7783-2534-5.

I enjoyed both of these, as well as the earlier book in the series, Poison Study.

• Midnight Never Come, by Marie Brennan, copyright 2008 by Bryn Neuenscwander; ISBN-13 978-0-316-02029-9.

  I really enjoyed this mix of faerie an Elizabethan England. Interestingly, this novel was inspired by part of a campaign of the Changeling RPG, which was one of the things talked about in the informative “Extras” section of the book, where she recommends three books by the folklorist Katherine Briggs: two on general British faerie lore (British Folk-Tales and Legends and The Faeries in Tradition and Literature) and one specifically about Shakespeare's time (The Anatomy of Puck). I'll have to look for those, and for Maire Brennan's other books. She has a website <http://www.mariebrennan.net>.

• Chindi, by Jack McDevitt, copyright 2002 by Cryptic, Inc; ISBN 0-441-00938-7.

  I enjoyed this. I'll have to look for his other books.

• The January Dancer (sp?), by Michael Flynn.

  I liked this, although I'd early put down another Flynn novel that I didn't like well enough to finish.

• Iron Sunrise, by Charles Stross.

  I liked this one too. I'm going back and reading some of Stross's work that I missed when it first came out.

• SPQR XII — Oracle of the Dead, by John Maddox Roberts.

  I've enjoyed this series, and this entry was good.

• The Water Thief, by Ben Pastor.

  I enjoyed this, though it was sometimes annoying.

• In the Stormy Red Sky, by David Drake, copyright 2009; Baen Books/Baen Publishing Enterprise; May 2009; ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9159-7.

  This is the seventh in The RCN Series featuring Daniel Leary and Adele Mundy.

• The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls, by John R. King, copyright 2008; Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.; ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1801-5.

  It was interesting to see Sherlock Holmes and Thomas Carnacki mixed, even if it was uneasily mixed.

• The Revolution Business, by Charles Stross, copyright 2009; Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, LLC; April 2009; ISBN-13: 987-0-7653-1672-1.

  In the fifth in Stross's Merchant Princes series, things go from bad to worse.

• Skin Trade, by Laurell K. Hamilton, copyright 2009; Berkley/Penguin Group (USA) Inc., Penguin Books Ltd.; June 2009; ISBN-13: 978-0-425-22772-5.

  This is the seventeenth volume in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter. Again, I'm more interested in the paranormal metaphysics and the monster killing than the sex.