What I’ve Been Reading: Apr ’09

Books I've finished reading this (last) month:

  1. The Golden Fool, Robin Hobb.

    Rating: ★★★★☆ 

  2. Fool's Fate, Robin Hobb.

    Rating: ★★★★☆ 

  3. The New American Splendor Anthology, Harvey Pekar.

    Rating: ★★½☆☆ 


    The bits I really liked in this were bits I remembered fondly from the movie. A somewhat haphazard collection
  4. Sleeper Vol. 2: All False Moves, Ed Brubaker.

    Rating: ★☆☆☆☆ 


    Wow. Talk about trash.
  5. The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula le Guin.

    Rating: ★★★☆☆ 


    The first non-Earthsea book of le Guin's I've read, this was an odd combination of of original ideas about gender and the same old science-fiction gender-role narrow-mindedness. Also set in a pretty interesting world, though.
  6. The Salmon of Doubt, Douglas Adams.

    Rating: ★★★☆☆ 


    I'd avoided reading this for a long time because it seemed rude to read something the author hadn't been behind publishing, but there was actually some pretty enjoyable reading in there. And the Hitchhiker Fatigue that I've developed doesn't seem to affect Dirk Gently stories.
  7. Then I got completely stuck on The Pickwick Papers, which I took forever to decide not to bother finishing, so didn't read nearly as much as I might have otherwise.

    I have also realised that my star ratings have been skewed too far to the right, so I'm going back to rejig previous entries.

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