I have been devouring books lately. There's a lot of reasons for that, which all mostly boil down to the fact that I tend to have 2-3 hours at work daily where there isn't much for me to do. (Well, there's always internet/RP to distract me, but a) I can only get lost in TV Tropes so many times before my head starts hurting, and b) all three of my pretendy funtime games can get pretty quiet during the JST-afternoon.) Part of it's also 'cause I didn't have steady access to fresh English-language books for several months. So now that I suddenly have a Kindle'd iPod to read with, I've basically been following up on any remotely interesting-sounding books that show up on my FList.

tl;dr YAY BOOKS. In particular, the books I've read in the past couple of months:

( mooostly spoiler-free review-rantings for Temeraire, The Accidental Time Machine, Dragonhaven, Fires of the Faithful, and The Lightning Thief )

Current Reading List
Bonk by Mary Roach (saw a rec for it on the internet)
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell (classicccc)
The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan

Books I Will Probably Buy
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
Nightlife by Rob Thurman
Affinity by Sarah Waters
(Empire of Ivory and Victory of Eagles eventually)

PDFs to Hunt Down
The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
Sunshine by Robin McKinley (rec'd)
Hero by Perry Moore (do want gay superhero novel)
Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede (apparently filled with race!fail, but I am weak to pioneer stories hardcore)
Finder by Emma Bull
Expendable by James Alan Gardner
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin
Halfway Human by Carolyn Ives Gilman


Any links recommendations? I'm mostly limited to DLing off of Amazon/Kindle (despite their recent fail, goddamn you Amazon) or importing PDFs, sadly, but other than that I am starving for more good sf/f/superhero novels. Having openly gay characters is a definite bonus, especially if they're more than just random minor characters.