So I Don’t End Up Being A Waffle Waitress
If you don’t understand the line above, you’ve missed one of the planet’s finest comedians (although frequently not so much near the knuckle as well past it). Difficult to believe we’ve been missing him almost 14 years now.
Anyway, I thought I’d start 2008… er, I mean 2009… with a look at my TBR pile. Obviously this varies, as I buy new books or my mood changes, books shuffle up and down it, but given my usual rate — and one that has been pretty much maintained for the last five years — of at least three books per week, I could be through this list before the end of february.
As my TBR pile was down to zero as at about the 29th of December, and that was when I started buying some more books, that seems like a reasonable starting point. I have therefore read some of the following — which I’ll mention as and when I get to ‘em.
Crime/Thriller
- Death’s Jest-book (A Dalziel & Pascoe Novel) — Reginald Hill
- The Death of Dalziel (A Dalziel and Pascoe Novel) — Reginald Hill
- Hold Tight — Harlan Coben. Read.
- Hard Frost — R.D. Wingfield. Read.
- Winter Frost — R.D. Wingfield
- A Killing Frost — R.D. Wingfield. Read.
- The Murder Exchange — Simon Kernick. Read.
- Blood Brother — J.A. Kerley
- 7th Heaven — James Patterson. Read.
- 4th of July — James Patterson. Read.
- Jack and Jill — James Patterson. Read.
- A Is for Alibi — Sue Grafton
- In the Woods — Tana French
- Nemesis — Bill Napier
Comedy
- Grumpy Old Workers — Stuart Prebble
- Grumpy Old Christmas — Stuart Prebble
- “Rising Damp”: The Complete Scripts — Eric Chappell
Science Fiction/Fantasy
- Schild’s Ladder — Greg Egan
- Hyperion — Dan Simmons
Horror
- The Birthing House — Christopher Ransom
General Fiction
- Wish You Were Here — Mike Gayle. Read.
Non-Fiction
- The Constants of Nature — John D. Barrow
- Would I Lie to You?: Deception Detection in Relationships at Work and in Life — Dr Paul Seager & Dr Sandi Mann
- Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief — Lewis Wolpert
- The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House — Kate Summerscale. Read.
That’s a grand total of 25 books on my “to be read pile”. That might sound like a lot, but when you consider that I’ve read 9 of ‘em, that only leaves 16, and as I’ve been averaging a book every other day, so assuming I continue at that rate, I ought to have finished reading all of the above by around this time next month.
And then I’ll need to go and buy some more unless I encounter the magic book pixie.
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Ahh, Bill Hicks–there’s a blast from the past. I think you’ll enjoy “Hyperion.” I need to reread that one.
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