Other Books Read in June

This will be short and uninformative; I was reading almost exclusively for WFA this past month, and vast chunks of what I was reading are magazines and other venues for short fiction, which I don't record. And, as always, I don't list things I don't finish. So let's dive into it:

• Erik Tomblin, Riverside Blues
  Novella published as a book; no comment.
• Lee Thomas, Parish Damned
  ditto; still no comment.
• Steven Gilbar, compiler, Bibliotopia
  A book of odd lists and facts, all about books. Not all that wonderful and often incorrect (in cases where I already knew the facts); I wouldn't recommend it.
• Karen Traviss, Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines
  Second in the new nine-book series, which I am enjoying but not, so far, loving. Plot points seem to be doled out between books very sparingly; I bet the whole thing could have been one longish novel without much trouble. [speculations on possible motives redacted]
• Simon Morden, Another War
  This is one I actually did mention, briefly, and that's more than I should say, anyway.
• Ian R. MacLeod, The House of Storms
  No comment
• Neil Williamson & Andrew W. Wilson, editor, Nova Scotia
  This morning I had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. In addition to my duties in this house, I shall be having further meetings later today.
• Laurell K. Hamilton, Strange Candy
  Her first short story collection, coming this fall. The most interesting thing to me is that her dream markets, when she started writing stories, were clearly Marion Zimmer Bradley's Swords & Sorceress anthologies and Dragon magazine -- these stories are mostly in that vein, rather than Anita Blake-y contemporary spookiness.
• A. Lee Martinez, In the Company of Ogres
  Reasonably funny fantasy.
• Graham Joyce, The Limits of Enchantment
  No comment.
• Carl-Johan Vallgren, The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred
  It was close, but The Complete Symphonies of Adolph Hitler is still my favorite title of 2005. No comment.
• Chris Roberson, editor, Adventure, Vol. 1
  No comment
• Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith
  The third Tiffany Aching book.
• Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things
  His new short-story collection.
  Those two books made up a very pleasant, but very busy, weekend. (If wandering around the house, looking for quiet places to read, for two days can be characterized as "busy.")
• Tom DeHaven, It's Superman!
  No comment.
• Al Sarrantonio, Haydn of Mars
• Al Sarrantonio, Sebastian of Mars
• Al Sarrantonio, Queen of Mars
  A somewhat Burroughsian trilogy set on a far-future terraformed Mars inhabited by the intelligent, bipedal descendants of housecats. A lot of running around and fighting, and three short books -- all good things.
• Jack Dann and various others, The Fiction Factory
  And, finally -- no comment.

Well, I'm getting this done quicker than in past months, which is a plus. But I'm not saying much of anything, since Bibliotopia is the only thing I read that wasn't for SFBC or WFA, and that was a bathroom book. But WFA reading will be done in about a week, so expect a flood of comics collections, graphic novels, and similar stuff this time next month -- I want to read a whole lot of short things quickly and knock the tops off of my teetering stacks.
Edited slightly 7/6/06 at 09:15 to fix two sentences that were missing words.