And that’s the second month of 2012 gone, with more books read: seven in total, five science fiction, two history. Need more diversity. I could’ve read more, but got bogged down in one book I didn’t finish, then was ill and disinclined to do anything but look at the telly for a week. I also only managed to review three of them in the month I read them, which isn’t that good either, but it seems I can do only a review a week or so, sometimes two. First world problems?
The End in Africa — Alan Moorehead
The third and final part of Alan Moorehead’s Africa trilogy, reporting on the war in North Africa in 1942-1943.
Seventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company — Wil O. Dijk
A very interesting, data intense look at an almost forgotten part of Dutch colonial and trading history.
Valor’s Choice — Tanya Huff
The first in a new to me series of military sf books, better than it needed to be.
White Dragon — Anne McCaffrey
The third Dragonriders of Pern novel which I’ve been rediscovering once Anne McCaffrey’s death last year remined me of them. Much better than I remembered.
The People’s Chef — Ruth Brandon
The biography of Victorian chef Alexis Soyer, something Sandra had been wanting me to read last year.
The Better Part of Valor — Tanya Huff
After I’d read the first in the series, I had to read its sequel too.
The Heart of Valor — Tanya Huff
And the third in the series too. All three were eminently readable and fun. What’s more there wasn’t any of the more nasty politics some mil-sf series have at their heart.
Osama — Lavie Tidhar
9/11 meets Life on Mars. A book stuffed with symbolism almost to the point of choking on it, but which just about worked despite or because of it.
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