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The Atrocity Archives & The Jennifer Morgue by Charlie Stross

Reviewing these both togethor as I read them back to bank. Had picked up The Jennifer Morgue over lunch one day from the bookstore right next to where I do my banking (a truly dangerous arrangement I am finding, paycheck gets deposited and then large chunks of it spent right away as I step out of the bank and succumb to the siren’s song of books to read next door) and started reading it on my bus ride home at the end of that day.

By next morning on my bus ride into work I had finished it and got off a stop early to visit a bookstore again to pick up a copy of The Atrocity Archives which I started on the way home that day and finished that night.
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Favorite Books of 2009

These are those books that I read in 2009 which were my favorite reads in the past year.

The books that I enjoyed the most, or that looking back on the past year, were at least the books that I remember best as having enjoyed reading.

Apologies in advance for my slaughter of the English language, cold medicine and a head cold are book working brutally against me.
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What I Read In 2009

Not counting manga, because I never manage to keep track of what and when I read that, this is a listing of most everything that I read last year.

Pretty sure there was actually more than this, but I’ve re-arranged my bookshelves enough over the last year that the area where I was keeping the ‘recently read’ books has gotten mixed back into the general population a few times over the year.

Kind of scary to realize I read that many Star Trek books last year, I knew I had read a few that were suggested by people I was talking to on IRC while waiting for the Star Trek Online beta to begin but I hadn’t realized there had been THAT many…

One of these days, I’ll actually get around to posting up the reviews I wrote of many of these books.
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