Recent Fun Reads

Summer audibles et cetera

• Fall or Dodge in Hell, Neil Stephenson (multimedia)
• Alien III: An Audible Original Drama, William Gibson (Audible)
• The Mystery of Alice, Lee Bacon (Audible)
• The Lost Plot & The Mortal Word: The Invisible Library, Book 4 & 5, Genevieve Cogman (Audible)
• I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You: Gallagher Girls, Book 1, Ally Carter (Audible)
• Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright (Audible)
• Blood of the Earth, Curse on the Land, Flame in the Dark, Circle of the Moon: Soulwood books 1,2,3,4 Faith Hunter (Kindle)
• The 5th Gender, G. L. Carriger (Kindle)

spring?

• Before Watchmen: Minutemen and Silk Spectre, Vertigo (GN)
• Alien: Out of the Shadows, An Audible Original (Audible)
• a mess of Cap'n Marvel comics from Comixology (Comix)
• Delver #1 and #2 (Comix)
• Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein (Audible)
• Strangers in Paradise Terry Moore, Vols 11,12,13 (Comix)

winter and other seasonal disturbances

• Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, David Foster Wallace (Kindle) (in progress)
• Fables through the end (Comix)
• The Wicked + The Divine Vol 7 (Comix)
• Dragonfly in Amber (Audible) (finished)
• The Fairer Sex Collection (Series), Michelle Miller (Kindle)
• The Sexy Librarian's Big Book of Erotica, Rose Caraway (Audible) (partial)
• Cast in Oblivion, Chronicles of Elantra, Michelle Sagara (Audible,Kindle)
• Etiquette & Espionage: Booktrack Edition, Gail Carriger (Audible)
• Threat Intelligence and Me: A Book for Children and Analysts, Robert M Lee (Kindle, pb)

Yule!

• novels: Dietland, The Great Frame-Up, and Cybermancy (Kindle)
• comix: Wonderland Vol 10, Amecomi Girls Vol 1, Grimm Tales of Terror Vol 1, Constantine (2015) Vol 1, American Vampire Vol 2, Goliath Girls #2, Ask for Mercy #1, Grave Danger #5, Goliath Girls #2 (Comixology)

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• Great Mythologies of the World, The Great Courses (Audible)
• The Labyrinth Index (Laundry Files #9), Charles Stross (Kindle)
• Stephen Fry’s Victorian Secrets: An Audible Original (Audible)
• The X-Files: Cold Cases and Stolen Lives, full cast (Audible)
• Grimm Fairy Tales Omnibus Vol 1, 2, 3, GFT Vols ... (Comix)
• Comixology: Aliens Omnibus Vol 1, other Zeniscope, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Vol 1
• Hellboy Collected Vol 2,3,4 (Comix)
• The Collapsing Empire, The Cleaning Flame, John Scalzi (Wil Wheaton), Audible
• From Yao to Mao: 5,000 Years of Chinese History, The Great Courses, (Audible)
• Jessica Jones Vol 1&2 (Comix)
• Wonderland Vol 7-9 (Comix)
• Ms Marvel Vol 3 (Comix)
• Short story anthologies Hot Blooded II, (trade, Kindle)
• Head On, John Scalzi (Amber Benson) (Audible)
• Angela: Asgard's Assassin Vol 1 (Comix)
• Strangers in Paradise: Vol 1-8 (Comix)
• Dresden reruns: up through Skin Game (Audible)
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Vol 3,4,5,6 (Comix)

new Dresden, old Dresden

• Captain Marvel: Vol 2, Old Man Logan, Ms. Marvel: Vol 1,2 (Comix)
• BPRD: Hollow Earth and Other Stories (Comix)
• Multiversity, Grant Morrison (Kindle)
• Competence, Gail Carriger (hardback)
• Dark State, Charles Stross (hardback)
• POC||GTFO Vol I (Kindle)
• Dresden reruns: up through Ghost Story (Audible)
• Brief Cases (Dresden Files) (Kindle, Audible)
• Vol 1 of Thor: Goddess of Thunder, Captain Marvel, G.I. Joe / Danger Girl, Grimm Fairy Tales (Comix, Kindle)
• Thor Vol 2: Who Holds the Hammer? (Kindle)
• A v X and Companion (Comix, HB)

many airports

• volume 1 of Umbrella Academy, Bitch Planet, ... (Comix)
• Dresden comics
• Rachel Rising vol 1-7
• Y: the Last Man vol 1-5
• finished Morning Glories
• Witchblade: classic 1-3 and vol 1-7
• Dark Queen, Jane Yellowrock, Faith Hunter (Kindle)
• The Plastic Magician, Charlie N (Kindle)
• Dresden reruns: up to Death Masks

some books

• WebMage, Kelly McCullough (paperback)
• The Devil You Know, Mike Carey (paperback)
• Outlander, Diana Galbaldon (Kindle, Audible)
• Storm Front Dresden Files I, Jim Butcher, James Marsters (Audible) (started a run back through)

Comics

• BtVS Omnibus Volume 1, Dark Horse, (Comix)
• The Dispatcher John Scalzi, Zachary Quinto (Audible)
• Secret Origins Vol 2 (The New 52) DC (Trade)
• Wicked + The Divine Vol 5, 6, & 1831 (Comixology)
• Sex Criminals: Volume Three (Comix)
• Astonishing X-Men: Exogenetic (Vol 6), Marvel, (Kindle, Comix)
• Dollhouse: Epitaphs (Vol 1), Dark Horse, (Comix)
• BtVS: Season Nine: Vol 1,2,3,4, Dark Horse, (Comix)
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol II: Squirrel You Know It's True, Marvel Now (Comix)
• X-Women (collection), Marvel, (Kindle, Comix)

heartwarming tales for the cold breath of winter

• Cast in Flight, Deception, Chronicles of Elantra 12 & 13, Michelle Sagara (Audible,Kindle)
• The Shadow Queen, Shalador's Lady, novels of the Black Jewels, Anne Bishop (Audible)
• Morning Glories, Image & Shadowline, Vol 2,3,4,5 (Comix)
• Artemis, Andy Weir (Audible)
• I Am Legend, Richard Matheson (Audible)
• Astonishing X-Men: vol 1,2,3,4,5 (Kindle, Comix)
• Touch & Grave: Queen of the Dead, Books 2 & 3, Michelle Sagara (Audible)
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore (Audible)
• Hacking Darkness: A Reverse Harem Romance (Dark Codes Book 1), Marissa Farrar (Kindle)
• 2600 Autumn 2017 (paper,Kindle)
• The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Vol I: Squirrel Power, Marvel Now (Kindle)
• Cat News for Cats (Kindle)
• Cast in Flame, Honor, Chronicles of Elantra 10 & 11, Michelle Sagara (Kindle)
• Cast in Moonlight, Chronicles of Elantra prequel, Michelle Sagara (Kindle)

3Q

• Cast in Peril, Sorrow, Chronicles of Elantra 8 & 9, Michelle Sagara (Kindle)
• Cold Reign Jane Yellowrock Book 11, Faith Hunter (Audible)
• finished DC Bombshells digital comic (Comixology)
• Monstress Volume 2: The Blood, Marjorie Liu (graphic novel)

summer

• Ballet Beautiful: Transform Your Body and Gain the Strength, Grace, and Focus of a Ballet Dancer, Mary Helen Bowers (Paperback)
• The Player of Games (Culture), Iain M. Banks, (paperback)
• The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi (Audible, trade)
• The Butterfly Effect: S1, Jon Ronson, (Audible)
• The Delirium Brief, Laundry Files, Charles Stross (hardback)
• Cast in Ruin, Chronicles of Elantra, Michelle Sagara (Kindle)
• The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O.: A Novel, Nicole Galland and Neal Stephenson (hardback, Audible)
• Anansi Boys, Neal Gaiman (Audible)
• The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas: BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatization (Audible)
• Astonishing X-Men: Emma Frost, Vol. 1,2,3, Karl Bollers,(manga)
• Use of Weapons, Culture, Iain M. Banks (paperback) (in progress)

2q

• The CS Detective, No Starch Press (paperback)
• Chicks Dig Time Lords, various (paperback)(in progress)
• Norse Mythology , Neil Gaiman (hardback, Audible)
• Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson (Audible)
• some Elantra book

Januar

• Blindsight and Echopraxia, (Firefall), Peter Watts (Audible)
• 2600 (Kindle)

Yule

• American Gods: Author's Definitive 10th Edition, Neil Gaiman (Audible)
• Trigger Warnings , Neil Gaiman (Audible)
• Poison or Protect, Gail Carriger (Kindle)

Thanksgiving

• The Dark horror story journal, catchup to #6 (mobi)
• The Dune Audio Collection, Frank Herbert (Audible)

winter 2016

• Death's End, Chixin Liu, Ken Liu trans. (Kindle)
• Endymion, Rise of Endymion, (Hyperian Cantos), Dan Simmons (Audible Frontiers)
• Hex Appeal, various, TPB
• Dragon Further Adventures of Vlad Taltos, Steven Brust (Paperback)

more recently

• The Book of Dragon: Two Further Adventures of Vlad Taltos, Steven Brust (trade collection)
• The Book of Taltos: Two Further Adventures of Vlad Taltos, Steven Brust (trade collection)
• The Masked City, (Invisible Library), Genevieve Cogman (Audible)
• You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost): A Memoir, Felicia Day (Audible)
• Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion, (Hyperian Cantos), Dan Simmons (Audible Frontiers)

Late Summer

• The Invisible Library, (Invisible Library), Genevieve Cogman (Audible)
• Out (a novel), trans. (Audible)
• The Familiar Book I, Mark Danielswki (started) (trade)
• Imprudence, (Custard Protocol) Gail Carriger (hardback)
• The Nightmare Stacks, (Laundry) Charles Stross (hardback)

2Q

• Guilty Pleasures .. Obsidian Butterfly (Anita Blake), Laurel K. Hamilton (Audible)
• Manners and Mutiny, Book 4 of the The Finishing School, Gail Carriger (Audible)
• Baskerville Tales (Kindle)

15-16 April 2016

• Frost something, Mercy Thompson book , Kindle
• Night something, Mercy Thompson book , kindle
• Started listening Guilty Pleasures (Audible)

Q1

• Magic Shifts (Kate Daniels), Illona Andrews (Audible)
• some thing Faith Hunter, Jane Yellowrock #9 (Audible)
• The Three Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Cixin Liu (Kindle)
• The Dark Knight Returns III 1-3 (Comixology)
• Wicked + The Divine Vol 3 (Comixology)
• Bombshells (Digital Edition) ... (Comixology)

Winter

• Broken Soul, Faith Hunter, Jane Yellowrock #8 ( Kindle)
• River Marked, Patricia Briggs, Mercy Thompson # (Kindle)
• Black Water, Faith Hunter, Jane Yellowrock stories (Kindle)
• Blood Trade, Faith Hunter ,Jane Yellowrock #6 ( Kindle)
• Death's Rival, Faith Hunter ,Jane Yellowrock #5 ( Kindle)
• Who on Earth is Tom Baker? An Autobiography, Tom Baker (Kindle)
• Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits, David Wong
• John Constantine, Hellblazer, Vol 8-done , Vertigo (Comixology)
• Preacher Vol 6, Vertigo (Comixology)

autumn

• Raven Cursed, Faith Hunter ,Jane Yellowrock #4 ( Audible )
• Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami (paperback)
• John Constantine, Hellblazer, Vol 7 Dangerous Love , Vertigo (Comixology)
• John Constantine, Hellblazer, Vol 6 Bloodlines , Vertigo (Comixology)
• Hellboy volumes, Vampirella comics (Comixology, Humble Bundle)
• 2600 Summer (paperback, Kindle)
• Ticker, Kindle

Summer

• Mercy Blade, Faith Hunter ,Jane Yellowrock #3 (Audible)
• The Wicked + The Divine Vol 2 : Fandemonium, Image (Comixology)
• The Annihilation Score, Charles Stross (hardback)
• Batgirl (New 52) #41 (paper)
• John Constantine, Hellblazer, Vol 5 Dangerous Habits , Vertigo (Comixology)
• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, ABC (hardboack)
• Blood Cross, Faith Hunter ,Jane Yellowrock #2 (Audible)
• Seveneves, Neal Stephenson, hardback
• Karen Memory, Elizabeth Bear (hardback)
• Syndrome E, Frankie Thielz (Kindle)

2Q2015

• The Wicked + The Divine #1 - #5 (Comixology)
• Skinwalker, Faith Hunter, Audible
• Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus, Vonda McIntyre, paperback
• The Girl in the Steel Corset, Steampunk Chronicles #1, Kady Cross (hardback)
• Prudence, The Custard Protocol book 1, Gail Carriger (hardback)
• Twelfth Doctor (Kindle)
• A Study in Silk (Kindle)

2015

• Waistcoats and Weaponry, Book 3 of the The Finishing School, Gail Carriger (Audible)
• Silver something, Mercy Thompson book 4, hardback
• Iron Kissed, Mercy Thompson book 3, paperback
• 1Q84, trade paperback
• The Glass Magician, Charlie N. Holmberg (Kindle)
• 2600 issues
• Walking Dead Vol ?,?, Comixology
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs , (Kindle)

autumn

• Maul, Tricia Sullivan (Kindle)
• The Legend of Drizzt: The Collected Stories, R. A. Salvatore and an all star cast (Audible)
• Batgirl (2011) caught up to present including #35 (Comixology, paper)
• Batgirl: Year One (Comixology)
• Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line, Rob Thomas, Jennifer Graham, narrated by Kristin Bell (Audible)
• The Handmaid's Tale, Marget Atwood, performed by Claire Danes (Audible)
• What If?, Randall Munroe, hardback
• Lock In, John Scalzi, narrated by Amber Benson (Audible)
• Curtsies and Conspiracies, Book 2 of the The Finishing School, Gail Carriger (Audible)
• The Paper Magician, Charlie N. Holmberg (Kindle)

vacation

• Wonderland comics collections (10?)
• Guardians comics collection (2)
• Redshirts, John Scalizi, (Audible) (again)
• Magic Breaks (Kate Daniels), Illona Andrews (Audible)

summer

• Etiquette and Espionage, Book 1 of the The Finishing School, Gail Carriger (Audible)
• Fuzzy Nation, John Scalzi (Audible)
• Skin Game, A Novel of the Dresden Files, Jim Butcher (Audible,Kindle)
• The Rhesus Chart (Laundry Files), Charles Stross (hardback)
• Unlocked: An Oral History of Haden's Syndrome: A Tor.Com Original (Kindle Single)
• Lovecraft's Monsters anthology (ebook)
• We, Robots anthology (Audible)
• Consider Phlebas (Culture Book 1), Iain M. Banks (Paperback, Kindle)
• Bleeding Violet (Kindle)

2Q2014

• Heartless and Timeless, books 4 and 5 of the Parasol Protectorate series, by Gail Carriger (Kindle)
• The Book of Jhereg, collecting the first three Vlad Taltos tales by Steven Brust (paperback)
• John Constantine, Hellblazer, Vol. 1: Original Sins, Comixology
• The Emperor's Soul, Brandon Sanderson (ebook)

Winter

• Singularity Sky, by Charles Stross, paperback
• listening to Metatropolis: Greenspace (third collection) (Audible)
• Jennifer Blood collected Vol 1,2,3 ... (Comixology)
• Fables Deluxe Volume 9?, hardback
• Changeless and Blameless, 2 & 3 of the Parasol Protectorate series, by Gail Carriger (Kindle)
• Gilded, first book of Gilded, by Christina Farley (Kindle)
• Soulless, first book of the Parasol Protectorate series, by Gail Carriger, paperback
• all three recollected Merchant Princes novels, Charles Stross, Kindle
• Neptune's Brood, Charles Stross (Kindle)
• Magic Rises, Kate Daniels book 6, Illona Andrews (paperback)
• Rule 34, Charles Stross (Kindle)
• Rendezvous With Rama, Arthur C. Clarke (Kindle Match book)
• Myth in Human History, Professor Grant L. Voth, The Great Courses (Audible) (in progress)
• Classical Mythology, Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, The Great Courses (Audible)

Autumn

• Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary W. Shelley
  
• plodding away at House of Leaves
  
• read Insurgent & Allegiant by Veronica Roth, rest of Divergent trilogy
• Red Shirts: A Novel with Three Codas by John "whatever" Scalzi
  
• Doom Vagina, funny porn from Shon Richards
  
• Red Sonja (Dynamite 2013) 1-3 by Gail Simone and Walter Geovani, Comixology
  
• Equoid: A Laundry Novella by Charles Stross
  
• Boneshaker by Cherie Priest, from Humble eBook Bundle 2
• Doctor Who 50th anniversary ebook series: 9,10
• read Divergent by Veronica Roth, first of a trilogy
• read Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, from Humble eBook Bundle 2
• listening to James Marsters read Turn Coat, a novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
• read Magic Burns & Magic Bleeds, the fourth and fifth Kate Daniels novels by Ilona Andrews
• read Fables Deluxe Vol VII, the end of the first year
• read reissue of The Players, Terrence Dicks 6th Doctor novel
• read Star Trek (Ongoing) Vol 4 collected, Comixology
• listened to James Marsters read Changes, a novel of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

Summer

• read Magic Strikes, the third Kate Daniels novel by Ilona Andrews
• read a borrowed paperback of Charlie Stross's The Apocalypse Codex, latest in Laundry Files
  
• listened to Max Brook's World War Z performed by an all star cast, via Audible
  
• reread David Brin's Kiln People after finding it in a used book shop
  
• listened to Torchwood: Exodus Code
• read Wil Wheaton's book Just a Geek
• read/listened to David Brin's Existence
• Doctor Who 50th anniversary ebook series: 6,7,8

Spring

• listened to James Marsters performing Jim Butcher's Cold Days (Audible/Penguin Audio)
  
• Ever After, Kim Harrison: latest Rachel Morgan / Hollows book
  
• Emperors of the Night, second Moreaus book
  
• Mongoliad   collection Book Three (of Three)
  
• The Human Division 8-12, serial ebook, John Scalzi
• Doctor Who 50th anniversary ebook series: 3
• The Kings Own, a novel of the Borderlands

Winter

• Forests of the Night, first Moreaus book
  
• Transmetropolitan Vol I: Back on the Street (reread)
• Doctor Who 50th anniversary ebook series: 1,2
• Fables Deluxe Volume 4
• The Human Division 1-7, serial ebook, & short The Crystal Spheres, John Scalzi
• The Manual of Detection
• Tangled Webs, Anne Bishop Black Jewels novel between sets
• The Cage
• Covenants, a novel of the Borderlands
• Halting State and Glasshouse plus "A Tall Tale", all Charles Stross
• Dreams Made Flesh, an Anne Bishop story collection between Black Jewels trilogies
• Cold Days, latest Dresden Files novel, Jim Butcher
• The Men Who Stare At Goats
• Audio: DW:Shada, Metatropolis: Cascadia,   John Dies at the End and its sequel
• Comics: Steed and Peel ongoing 1-6, Star Trek ongoing, and finished ST:TNG/DW crossover plus Lori Lovecraft: My Favorite Redhead and some others
• Hentai: reread Tranceptor vol 1, caught up with Nana To Kaoru and LemonFont Shapeshifter

3Q2012

• A Perfect Blood, Kim Harrison, (latest Rachel Morgan book) on her Kindle
• Mongoliad collections vol 1 and 2, plus Sinner and Dreamer

• Graphic novels: Catwoman: When in Rome
• Comics: Star Trek: TNG/ Dr Who : Assimilation(crossover) #1 - #5
• Comics:  League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century
• I started back into  The Walking Dead  at about Volume 8 when Compendium One stopped

• Batman: Hush 
• Batman: Arkham Citygame lead-in

1Q2012

• Fables Deluxe Vol 3
• The Walking Dead: Compendium One
• Joss Whedon's  Frey collection, a holiday gift
• Arkham Asylum anniversary edition
• Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dearly Devoted Dexterby Jeff Lindsay
  

4Q2011

• Must Love Hellhounds(various) 
  
• Introducing Garrett P.I. , Glenn Cook 
  
• Pale Demon & Blood Work, Kim Harrison