Dusk Before the Dawn

The stack is big, the voice inside my head keep telling me to read more…quick links here to Now Reading and The To-be-read stack

Recently Read and Reviewed (linked to reviews):

2008

• The Living Dead edited by John Joseph Adams
• The Host by Stephenie Meyer
• Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley (318pg, PB)
• Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (629pg, HB)
• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (563pg, PB)
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• The Dragon’s Nine Sons by Chris Roberson (419pg, PB)
• Playing for Pizza by John Grisham (from Bob) (306pg, PB)
• An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson (288pg, ARC)
• The Alexandria Link by Steve Berry (414pg,HB)
• Seeds of Change, edited by John Joseph Adams (ARC)
• Jimi Hendrix Turns 80 by Tim Sandlin
• Ragamuffin by Tobias Buckell (325pg, PB,Finalist for this year’s Nebula, congrats Tobias!)
• Widower’s Two-Step by Rick Riordan
• This Day All Gods Die: The Gap into Ruin by Stephen R. Donaldson (749pg, PB)
• Chaos and Order: The Gap into Madness by Stephen R. Donaldson (674pg, PB)
• Big Red Tequila by Rick Riordan (372pg, PB)
• A Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap into Power by Stephen R. Donaldson (518pg, PB)
• Forbidden Knowledge: The Gap into Vision by Stephen R. Donaldson (455pg, PB)
• Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson (from Charles)
• The Real Story: The Gap into Conflict by Stephen R. Donaldson (220pg, PB)
• Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (846pg, PB)
• On Writing by Stephen King
• The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (527pg, PB)
• Olympos by Dan Simmons (690pg, HB)
• Triangle by R. J. Archer (ARC)
• A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge (613pg, PB)
• The Silent Blade by R. A. Salvatore (from Paths of Darkness collection, 277pg)
• Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell by David Michaels (355pg, PB)
• Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On The Cosmos by Seth Lloyd (211pg, PB)
• Qigong Meditation: Embryonic breathing by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming (348pg, PB)
• American Shaolin by Matthew Polly (361pg, PB)
• The Vor Game by Lois McMaster Bujold (Hugo, 1991) (342pg, PB)
• Seeker by Jack McDevitt (373pg, PB)

2007

• Confessor by Terry Goodkind (603pg, HB)
• In the Company of Soldiers by Rick Atkinson (303pg, HB)
• 2012 The War for Souls by Whitley Strieber (319pg, HB) (guest review posted at SF Signal.com)
• The Metatemporal Detective by Michael Moorcock (326pg, HB)
  
• Red Moon by David S. Michaels (404pg, PB)
• 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl by Daniel Pinchbeck (397 dense pages, PB)
• To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis (493pg, PB)
  
• The Crocodile and the Crane by Arthur Rosenfield (332pg, HB)
  
• The Human, The Orchid and The Octopus by Jacques Cousteau and Susan Schiefelbein (ARC from BEA) (306pg)
• The Algebraist by Iain M. Banks (434pg, PB)
• Paragaea by Chris Roberson (393pg, PB)
• Crystal Rain (370pg, PB) by Tobias Buckell
• Here, There and Everywhere by Chris Roberson (276pg, a fellow Texas author!)
• The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson (ARC from BEA) 588pg, 188pg of notes
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (759 pg, HB)
• The Takers by R. W. Ridley (216pg, PB)
• Dragons of the Highlord Skies (ARC from BEA) by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (464pg)
  
• Dragons of the Dwarven Depths by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (582pg, PB)
  
• An Army at Dawn by Rick Atkinson (541pg, 82pg of notes, PB)
• The Chronoliths by Robert Charles Wilson (315pg, PB)
  
• The Dark River by John Twelve Hawks (ARC from BEA)
  
• The Cutting Season by Arthur Rosenfeld
• The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold (ARC from BEA)
  
• The Modern World (called Dangerous Offspring in the states) by Steph Swainston
• The Ghost Brigades by John Sclazi (343pg, PB)
  
• Positively Fifth Street by James McManus (just in time for the WSOP!)
• The Pixel Eye by Paul Levinson
• The Terminal Experiment by Robert J. Sawyer
• Bataan Diary by Chris Schaefer
• Wanderer Springs by Robert Flynn
• You Suck by Christopher Moore
• Hardcase by Dan Simmons
• Illium by Dan Simmons
• Power, Faith and Fantasy by Michael Oren

Currently reading (and, yes, the voices in my head tell me to read more than one at a time):

• Anathem by Neal Stephenson (signed copy!!!! Thanks, Charles!)
• The Spine of the World by R.A. Salvatore
• Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
• Old Frame Chen Style Taijiquan by Mark Chen
• Tai-chi Chuan in Theory and Practice by Kuo Lien-Ying
• The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
• Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit
• Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, edited by John Joseph Adams (327pg, PB)
• The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose (at 1049 pages (HB) and lots of mathematics, I will be reading this one for a long long time…unless the voices in my head get tired of it)

The Stack:

Science Fiction / Fantasy / and a little Horror and Mystery

• Sly Mongoose by Tobias Buckell (won an ARC in a contest)
• The Reality Dysfunction by Peter F. Hamilton (holy crap, it’s 1225pgs, PB!!)
• Redwall by Brian Jacques
• the rest of the Justice League of America graphic novels, to keep up with my son
• Atmosphere by Michael Laimo (348pg, PB)
• Borrowed Tides by Paul Levinson
• Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
• The Maze Murderer by Charles Pero
• The Path of Darkness, The Hunter’s Blade trilogy, The Sellswords Sage by R.A. Salvatore, to keep up with my son (yes, I’m falling behind)
• The Orc King by R. A. Salvatore (ARC from BEA)
• Hominids, Humans, Hybrids by Robert J. Sawyer
• The Lost Colony by John Scalzi
• A Deepness in the Sky by Vernor Vinge (774pg, PB)
• Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (578pg, PB)
• Spin by Robert Charles Wilson (Hugo, 1996) (452pg, PB)
• The Golden Age by John C. Wright (395pg, PB)

History and Ancient Civilizations

• The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich
• The Long Grey Line by Rick Atkinson
• Slouching Toward Zion and More Lies by Robert Flynn (a fellow Texas author!)
• Growing Up a Sullen Baptist and Other Lies by Robert Flynn
• Book of the Hopi by Frank Waters (337pg, PB)
• The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham (618pg, HB)
• History of the Choctaws, Chickasaws and Natchez Indians by H. B. Cushman (476pb)

Martial Arts / Philosophy / Science and Technology

• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
• Qigong Meditation: Small Circulation by Dr. Yang, Jwing-Ming
• The Emperor’s New Mind by Roger Penrose (another of Dr. Penrose that I will be reading for a long time) (583pg, PB)
• Fundamentals of Hawaiian Mysticism by Charlotte Berney
• Adventures with a Purpose by Richard Bangs
• Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
• Practical Cryptography by Bruce Schneier
• Secrets and Lies by Bruce Schneier

General Fiction

• The Spanish Bow by Andromeda Romano-Lax (ARC from BEA) (547pg)
• Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer, to keep up with my son
• How Nancy Drew Saved by Life by Lauren Baratz-Logsted
• The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
• Caspian Rain by Gina Nahai