Adventures in the Mouse House

Once again, I fail at doing these idividually.

58. Bad Things by Michael Marshall

I would say that the Michael Marshall thrillers are subject to the law of diminishing returns, except that I read the last half of it in one evening, so he must be doing something right.

Less of an all-pervading conspiracy theory behind this than the other books, it's an interesting twist on the "something evil in the forest" tale.

59. Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children by Michael Newton

Not so much a history of children raised by wolves, etc (too lost to time) but a history of what they mean in the history of ideas. Lots of Enlightenment stuff and characters who popped up at the periphery of my PhD, but ultimately self-indulgent. Left me with more questions than it answered, and not in a good way. Amusing enough, but it's going back to the charity shop whence it came.

60. Generation X by Douglas Coupland

This month's Bibliogoths selection (which we will discuss tomorrow). I read this shortly after it came out, when I was a fully paid up member of the poverty jet set. I'd remembered the term but forgotten where I picked it up.

61. Fool Moon by Jim Butcher

Book 2 of The Dresden Files. I love this stuff. Mostly disposable supernatural-detective stuff but the scene where Harry becomes a wolf is just beautifully written.

The only thing stopping me from buying the rest of the series RIGHT NOW is that I just had a major accident at the library so things are a bit out of control around here book-wise.

20. Blood of Angels by Michael Marshall

Third in the Straw Men trilogy. Some bits of this book bugged me more than the others - chiefly, the exceedingly lame "Paul escapes from custody" premise of the book which I saw coming when they arrested him rather than killed him at the end of the second book. There's also a couple of demonstrably wrong facts of history in the "potted history of the Straw Men and opposition to them" but thankfully that's only mentioned once in passing.

Having said that, it effectively sucked me in and took very little time to get through (it's much longer than the first two volumes), so it was worth the effort.