[books 2009] last but not least
Dec. 30th, 2009 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulro69. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
I suspect that everyone who cares has already read this, so I'll just say that it's lovely. I've been saving it till I had a chance to read it all at once, which I did over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
(With an additional hooray for spending Chrismtas with people who don't mind you curling up with a book all day).
70. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Finally! I got through the whole thing!
Which makes it sound like a chore, but it wasn't. I loved this book (no big surprise as I'm a big fan of Stephenson on the whole). A masterful bit of world-building - when you think you have it all figured out, something changes and you realise it doesn't work like you think it does.
71. The First City: St Augustine Saga of Survival edited by Jean Parker Waterbury
A history of St Augustine that I picked up when we were there. Surprisingly easy read. I was left wondering how the Spanish managed to hang onto Florida as long as they did. I have enough training to wonder whether they really were that incompetent, or whether, as history is told by the victors, it's Anglo spin. Though the evidence as presented is pretty compelling for the incompetence case.
I suspect that everyone who cares has already read this, so I'll just say that it's lovely. I've been saving it till I had a chance to read it all at once, which I did over Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
(With an additional hooray for spending Chrismtas with people who don't mind you curling up with a book all day).
70. Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Finally! I got through the whole thing!
Which makes it sound like a chore, but it wasn't. I loved this book (no big surprise as I'm a big fan of Stephenson on the whole). A masterful bit of world-building - when you think you have it all figured out, something changes and you realise it doesn't work like you think it does.
71. The First City: St Augustine Saga of Survival edited by Jean Parker Waterbury
A history of St Augustine that I picked up when we were there. Surprisingly easy read. I was left wondering how the Spanish managed to hang onto Florida as long as they did. I have enough training to wonder whether they really were that incompetent, or whether, as history is told by the victors, it's Anglo spin. Though the evidence as presented is pretty compelling for the incompetence case.
