Fourteen months of books

[shewhomust]

While we were away on holiday, I reached the end of the A4 notebook in which I write my book diary: time to index it, and start another. It appears that since the end of July 2006, I have diaried (which should be synonymous with "I have read", but is not; there is a backlog):

Joan Aiken: The Witch of Clatteringshaws
Florin Andreescu, Mihai Ogrinji, Anda Raicu: Bucovina / The Romanian Village Eternity
Richard Aronowitz: Five Amber Beads

Carla Banks: The Forest of Souls / Strangers
L. Frank Baum: The Wizard of Oz
Bob Beagrie: Endeavour
Elizabeth Bear: Blood and Iron / Carnival /The Chains that You Refuse
(with Sarah Monette) A Companion to Wolves
Alison Bechdel: Fun House
Brian Bolland: Bolland Strips
Chaz Brenchley: A Cold Coming / Desdaemona / River of the World / Rotten Row
(as editor) Phantoms at the Phil: The Second Proceedings
Jan Harold Brunvand: Casa Frumoasa: The House Beautiful in Rural Romania
John Burns, Robbie Morrison, Steve Yeowell: Nikolai Dante: Tsar Wars
Charles Butler: Timon's Tide

Arthur Calder-Marshall: The Fair to Middling
Eddie Campbell: The Fate of the Artist
Mike Carey, Glen Fabry: Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere
Ann Cleeves: Another Man's Poison / The Crow Trap / Hidden Depths / Telling Tales
Kevin Crossley-Holland: King of the Middle March
John Crowley: Beasts

Nellie Dale, Walter Crane: The Dale Readers, Book II
Pamela Dean: Tam Lin
Peter Dickinson: The Green Gene

Martin Edwards (editor): ID: Crimes of Identity

Brian Fies: Mom's Cancer
Anne Fine: Bill's New Frock / Jamie and Angus Together

Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman, John Romita: Eternals
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean: Mirrormask
Andy Goldsworthy: Parkland / Wood 98

Brian Hitch, Mark Millar, Andrew Currie: The Ultimates 1: Super-Human / The Ultimates: Homeland / Security / Gods and Monsters

Tove Jansson: Comet in Moominland / The Exploits of Moominpappa / Finn Family Moomintroll / Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip / Moominland Midwinter /Moominsummer Madness / Tales from Moominvalley
Michael Jecks: The Death Ship of Dartmouth / The Malice of Unnatural Death
Diana Wynne Jones: The Pinhoe Egg
Gwyneth Jones: The Hidden Ones
Stephen Jones, (editor): Shadows over Innsmouth

Nikolai Nikolaevich Karazin: Cranes Flying South (PS 38)

Valerie Laws: Quantum Sheep
Lugo Laszlo Lugosi: Zsido Budapest Jewish

Marisa Acoccella Marchetto: Cancer Vixen
Robert Mayer: Superfolks
Andrew Martin: The Necropolis Railway
Val McDermid: The Grave Tattoo
Juliet E. McKenna: The Thief's Gamble
Medieval Murderers: House of Shadows
Stephen Mellor: Down Among the Yla
Farah Mendlesohn: DWJ: Children's Literature and The Fantastic Tradition / (as editor) Glorifying Terrorism
Peter Milligan, Chris Bachalo, Brendan McCarthy: Shade: American Scream (v. )
Mil Millington: Love and Other Near-Death Experiences
Sarah Monette: The Virtu
Grant Morrison: Seven Soldiers / Seaguy
Craig Murray: Murder in Samarkand

Barbara Nadel: Belshazzar's Daughter

Simon Palmer: Saltaire: a picture story book
Elizabet Peters: Crocodile on the Sandbank / The Deeds of the Disturber
Ellen Phethean: Wall
Ed Piskov, Alex Saviuk, Robert Tinnell: The Feast of the Seven Fishes
Terry Pratchett: Thud! / Wintersmith

Sheila Quigley: Bad Moon Rising / Every Breath You Take / Living on a Prayer / Run for Home

Gordon Ramsey: Humble Pie
Ian Rankin: Set in Darkness
Danuta Reah: Bleak Water

Marjane Satrapi: Persepolis 1
Joann Sfar: Vampire Loves
Sean Steward: Firecracker
L.A.G. Strong: Mr Sheridan’s Umbrella (PS 45)

Bryan Talbot: Alice in Sunderland

Serena Valentino, Crab Scrambly: Nightmares & Fairy Tales: 1140 Rue Royale
Rina Valero: Delights of Jerusalem
Ursula Vernon: Black Dogs: Part One - The House Of Diamond / Digger: Volume Two
Sue Vickerman: Shag

Liz Williams: Banner of Souls / Nine Layers of Sky / Snake Agent
Douglas Wolk: Reading Comics
Brian Wood, Becky Cloonan: Demo

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Comments

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Thank you for answering my question in such detail - don't apologise, I did ask!

And I can see why these things bother you: I enjoyed the partisan nature of the argument, and - without knowing the scholarly background - took a number of assertions with a pinch of salt. On the other hand, you know, not everyone is a storyteller, and there is a general sort of myth that the whole story emerged perfect from nowhere one sunny afternoon in Oxford...