\nAnd 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?\n<\/p>\n
\nThe End in Africa<\/a><\/cite> — Alan Moorehead \nSeventeenth-century Burma and the Dutch East India Company<\/a><\/cite> — Wil O. Dijk \nValor’s Choice<\/a><\/cite> — Tanya Huff \nWhite Dragon<\/cite> — Anne McCaffrey \nThe People’s Chef<\/cite> — Ruth Brandon
\nThe third and final part of Alan Moorehead’s Africa trilogy, reporting on the war in North Africa in 1942-1943.\n<\/p>\n
\nA very interesting, data intense look at an almost forgotten part of Dutch colonial and trading history.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe first in a new to me series of military sf books, better than it needed to be.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe third Dragonriders of Pern<\/cite> novel which I’ve been rediscovering once Anne McCaffrey’s death last year remined me of them. Much better than I remembered.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe biography of Victorian chef Alexis Soyer, something Sandra had been wanting me to read last year.\n<\/p>\n