My Weekly Book

Ahahaha. 2007 finally dispensed with and only a month behind now! Here is my list of books read in January which I had better get written up quite fast:

• Pieces of Modesty - Peter O’Donnell
• The Sandman: A Game of You - Neil Gaiman et al
• L is for Lawless - Sue Grafton
• The Impossible Virgin - Peter O’Donnell
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Modesty Blaise: The Hell-Makers - Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway
• Sanditon/The Watsons - Jane Austen

Two ongoing projects here - to continue through the Modesty Blaise novels and strips, and to read everything I haven’t already by Jane Austen in preparation for reading the Tomalin biography. Both going well, as you can see.

Now all I need to do is get the damned reviews written…

In the meantime, here’s an interesting piece from the Wall Street Journal on the somewhat heightened wait for the next Dan Brown super-thriller. As Jessa Crispin points out at Blog of a Bookslut, with no Rowling or Brown blockbusters to pull the readers through the doors of the stores, publishers are getting really quite twitchy about the old bottom line.

You might not like Brown and Rowling one little bit - but it appears they may well have been helping keep all our lesser-known favourites afloat. Food for thought, that…

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Tags: January 2008, monthly

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