Books Acquired: Room by Emma Donoghue Sex Criminals, Volume 3: Three the Hard Way by Matt Fraction Mortality by Christopher Hitchens Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi by Yotam Ottolenghi Rick Stein’s Long Weekends by Rick Stein Books Read: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Amazonia by James Rollins The Dispatcher by John Scalzi I managed to accumulate a load of books this month without really trying, but two are cookbooks and don’t really count. Also, Room was given to Lee-Ann and passed off to me, so that’s a freebie as well. Had a wonderful time listening to John…

Books Acquired: The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave I Was the Cat by Paul Tobin Kaijumax, Season 1 by Zander Cannon The Sixth Gun, Vol. 1: Cold Dead Fingers by Cullen Bunn Something to Remember You By by Gene Wilder Fool’s Quest by Robin Hobb Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Authority by Jeff VanderMeer The Vegetarian by Han Kang The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino French Milk by Lucy Knisley Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays by George Orwell On Writing by Charles Bukowski Ballistics: Poems by Billy Collins Laughter in the Dark by…

Books Acquired: Last Chance to See by Douglas Adams Books Read: Double Cup Love by Eddie Huang The Sea by John Banville A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling by Tony Cliff I’m still on the book-buying ban until our pilgrimage to Powell’s Books is completed and our luggage is filled with goodies, but someone left Last Chance to See in our lobby earlier in the month, which I always meant to read, so I hungrily snatched that up. I’m on holiday already, leaving for Seattle today, so the ban will be over before we know it. We’ll also be at PAX West…

Books Acquired: Delilah Dirk and the King’s Shilling by Tony Cliff Books Read: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Poems That Make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann We Stand On Guard by Brian K. Vaughan My plan for this upcoming month is to write more than one post. An achievable goal, you would think, but after this last month who knows. What a naughty blogger I’ve been. As an apology, here’s a video of my dog’s beard in the wind. A video posted by Rob McMillan (@mcmillan) on…

Books Acquired: The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry We Stand On Guard by Brian K. Vaughan I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett Books Read: Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff Quiet by Susan Cain How is it the 7th already? I haven’t even done my wrap-up for the last month. We’ve just confirmed that we’ll be in Portland at the beginning of September, so I’m putting myself on a book-buying ban until then to save myself for Powell’s Books. We’ll see how that pans out.…

Books Acquired: Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell Tooth and Nail by Ian Rankin Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler How To Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food by Nigella Lawson My Little French Kitchen by Rachel Khoo Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff Side Effects by Woody Allen Getting Even by Woody Allen Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen Books Read: Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Richard Stark’s Parker: Slayground by Darwyn Cooke The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks I was apparently still on a bit of a book-buying high after the book…

Books Acquired: Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel by Scott Adams Exiles on Asperus by John Wyndham Blankets by Craig Thompson The Sentimentalists by Johanna Skibsrud Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon Amsterdam by Ian McEwan The Massacre Of Glencoe by John Buchan I’m a Stranger Here Myself by Bill Bryson The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood So, Anyway… by John Cleese The Salzburg Connection by Helen MacInnes The Tenth Man by Graham Greene Congo by Michael Crichton Microserfs by Douglas Coupland Black Swan Green by David Mitchell When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris Books Read: The…

Books Acquired: The Tragedy of Mister Morn by Vladimir Nabokov Books Read: The Last Colony (Old Man’s War #3) by John Scalzi Golden Son (Red Rising #2) by Pierce Brown The Sculptor by Scott McCloud Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher I really enjoyed everything I read in March. Two were sequels to novels I love, so those aren’t too much of a surprise. The third is a graphic novel that got a lot of buzz last year and came highly recommended from a number of people I trust, so also not a huge surprise. The fourth was Carrie Fisher’s first autobiography, which I picked up on a complete whim and…

Books Acquired: None. Books Read: Fool’s Assassin by Robin Hobb You’re Never Weird on the Internet by Felicia Day Animal Farm by George Orwell Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome One post last month, not including the previous wrap-up. Oh, how time flies. I have an excuse for the first two weeks, we were in Hawaii for one of them and had guests at the house for the other, but since then it’s just been laziness. It’s funny how difficult it can be to sit down in front of the keyboard after taking a long break, even knowing it’s enjoyable once you get going. It was a…

Books Acquired: The Sculptor by Scott McCloud Richard Stark’s Parker: Slayground by Darwyn Cooke Espedair Street by Iain Banks Smut: Stories by Alan Bennett Funny Girl by Nick Hornby Letters of Note by Shaun Usher Poems That Make Grown Men Cry by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden Books Read: Secondhand Souls by Christopher Moore The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg She by H. Rider Haggard Bream Gives Me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg I was a naughty boy this month. I had an order from Amazon, so I thought I’d throw in a couple graphic novels, which on its own is fine. Unfortunately, yesterday I also accidentally found myself in a…