July was busy. Not much reading, and not much listening, as I took a Gym Break during the last week of the month (just started back on Saturday the 3rd.)
07/03/2013 Mary Ann in Autumn (audiobook) by Armistead Maupin
07/03/2013 Star Trek (DC Series II) 61-70, Special 2, Annual 5 by Howard Weinstein & Various
07/04/2013 Star Trek (DC Series II) 71-80, Special 3, Annual 6, Ashes of Eden GN by Howard Weinstein & Various
07/07/2013 The Fountains of Paradise (audiobook) by Arthur C. Clarke
07/13/2013 Star Trek: The Next Generation: Vendetta (audiobook) by Peter David
07/13/2013 Snows of Darkover (anthology) Edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley
07/20/2013 Creating the Enterprise (2nd Edition) by Paul Olsen
07/20/2013 Red Sun of Darkover (anthology) Edited by Marion Zimmer Bradley
07/22/2013 The Man Who Folded Himself by David Gerrold
07/24/2013 Clingfire I: The Fall of Neskaya (audiobook) by Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J. Ross
07/27/2013 The Love and Rockets Companion: 30 Years (and Counting) edited by Marc Sobel and Kristy Valenti
07/30/2013 Love and Rockets Book 1: Music for Mechanics (gn) by Los Bros Hernandez
07/31/2013 The Complete Omaha the Cat Dancer Vol. 8 (gn) by Red Waller & Kate Worley with James Vance
This that & the other. Some Star Trek comics (finished re-reading DC Series II). Some Darkover fan fiction, followed by Darkover audio of the Ages of Chaos Clingfire Trilogy. I enjoyed these books a whole lot more when I read them myself. I think the reader just doesn't work for me. Sadly.
David Gerrold's The Man Who Folded Himself, first re-read since the 70's, I think. Man, is that a compelling read. It still holds up beautifully, by the way. I Kindled this one after reading Gerrold's ringing denouncement of Orson Scott Coward (I think that's his name, right?) and the whole Ender's Game movie boycott brouhaha. Thanks Dave!
Last year was the 30th anniversary of the first issue of Love & Rockets, and their publisher, Fantagraphics, announced an extensive celebration, to include 3 big celebratory volumes to be published in the latter half of the year. Twelve months late, but it looks like that material is finally going to come out, just in time for the 31st anniversary. Better late than never, I say. The first book, the Love and Rockets Companion, showed up from Amazon on, I think, Wednesday the 24th of July. It went camping with me over the weekend, and I finished in on Saturday. That got me in the mood for L&R again, so I'm re-reading the whole series in trade paper. The early stuff (the first volume, essentially) is weird and tonally quite different from what came later, but still wonderful.
The L&R re-read got interrupted when the final, belated volume of Omaha the Cat Dancer showed up last Tuesday. I finished it the next day. It was OK, and a good wrap-up for the series, but not up to the highs of some of the earlier material.
Yesterday, I did some living room cleaning, and finally put away a stack of books I had planned to read over last year's Xmess break - those plans went out the window when my younger brother passed away on Christmas eve, and I spend the next couple of weeks shuttling back & forth to Boise, trying to help my sister-in-law and my parents deal with the fall-out.
I did pull one book out of that stack and started reading it again -- Lou Scheimer's memoirs of his years with Filmation, making kid's TV programming. Fun read!
Currently reading: L&R Book 3, Las Mujeres Perdidas by Los Bros Hernandez, Creating the Filmation Generation by Lou Scheimer & Andy Mangels, Star Trek Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures by Christopher Bennett. Currently listening to Clingfire II: Zandru's Forge by MZB & Deborah J. Ross.
