Books I can remember reading in recent months

[petronia]

Id est, books that at one point were lying in physical form on a table in my house, and that I read from end to end. I skim a lot of stuff in bookstores and elsewhere, especially shorter pieces - Gaiman stories, Calvino essays. At one point I read a few chapters of All Quiet on the Western Front, do you know I never realized that book was written by a German, explains why the front was Western then. *is sporked*

• Steven Brust, Orca
• Angela Carter, Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
• G. K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown
• Deborah Curtis, Touching from a Distance
• Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

Writeups after dinner. Is there one I should start with? XD I should make a to-read/acquire list, too - trying to move forward with the Dragaera books in particular but stymied by how Five Hundred Years Later appears to have fallen out of print (!?!). Suggestions are welcome.

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

but stymied by how Five Hundred Years Later appears to have fallen out of print (!?!)

I am having this Exact Same Problem. What the hell? The Phoenix Guards is in every bookstore ever, but no one has the sequel?

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Exactly - it's not like I had to go out of my way to find The Phoenix Guards!

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

IME Toronto's used book stores usually have plenty of both.