Books read, 2007

[dreamer_easy]

Greg Bear. Slant.
Brian Michael Bendis. Fortune and Glory.
William S. Burroughs. Queer.
Dominique Collon. The Queen of the Night (British Museum Objects in Focus).
Marcel Cohen. In Search of a Lost Ladino.
Michael David Coogan. Stories from Ancient Canaan.
Douglas Coupland. JPod.
Piers Moore Ede. Honey and Dust.
Stefan Fatsis. Word Freaks.
Ian Fleming. Casino Royale.
- Live and Let Die.
Wanda Gag. Millions of Cats.
Niall Griffiths. Runt.
- Sheepshagger.
- Stump.
- Wreckage.
Richard Hammond. On The Edge.
Jonathan Harley. Lost in Transmission.
bell hooks. Bone Black.
Nick Hornby. The Complete Polysyllabic Spree.
- Fever Pitch.
- How to be Good.
Aldous Huxley. Brave New World
- Crome Yellow.
Arvid S. Kapelrud. The Violent Goddess.
Etgar Keret. The Nimrod Flip-Out.
Betty MacDonald. The Egg and I.
Magnus Mills. The Restraint of Beasts.
Me. Return of the Living Dad.
George Orwell. A Clergyman's Daughter.
- Coming up for Air.
- The Road to Wigan Pier.
Paul Radin. The Trickster: a study in American Indian mythology.
Rainbow Spirit Elders. Rainbow Spirit Theology.
Ali Rattansi. Racism: A Very Short Introduction.
Ruth Rendell. A Guilty Thing Surprised.
Lionel Shriver. Ordinary Decent Criminals (aka The Bleeding Heart).
Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon. Oy gevalt.
Jacqueline Susann. Valley of the Dolls.
Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72.
- Kingdom of Fear.
Fred Waitzkin. Searching for Bobby Fischer.
Tom Wolfe. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers.

Notable short stories
John Baxter. The Hands. In Carnell, John (ed) New Writings in SF: 6. Corgi, London, 1965. Argh!!
James Tiptree Jr. The Women Men Don't See. Wanted to see if this had any relevance to DW S3. It doesn't. But I did understand the story much better on the re-read. And Tiptree's relentless prose!

Comments

[jonquil.livejournal.com]

I think Jon needs a present.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3698691.htm

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Eeeee!

[mrteufel.livejournal.com]

Oodles of fun!

[dinosaurcostume.livejournal.com]

"There is no gender differentiation of the Ood."

So now we get our continuity information from the Argos catalogue, rather than books by Peter Haining or Terrance Dicks?

[cthonus.livejournal.com]

Humph. I suppose that rules out juvenile jokes about man Oods.

[rodinia.livejournal.com]

Just came along your journal and read 2007, 31. I thought: panic, it's already that date. Then I realised the exam I'm currently learning for is 30 March and I panicked again because I thought I missed it, and then, after having wiped my eyes that the date on this entry is 31 december. Dear Kate, you really know how to scare visitors who just come strolling past.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Ay yi yi yi yi yi!

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Kate-

So glad I found your blog here! I've been wondering what you've been up to- I miss the occasional "What Kate's been up to" newsletters you'd send out, and I _definitly_ miss your Doctor Who novels. I look forward to reading over things here and catching up. Hope John is doing well, as well. Tell him Maryland hasn't changed much, at least it hadn't when I was there last in December.

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Hey dude! Long time no see!

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

I'm off to the beginning of your blog, all the way back to 2004... joined Jon's as well. Ordered some of your books I haven't got yet, but it looks like I'm not going to ever get "So vile a sin"... there's 3 of them on amazon.com, the cheapest going for $128.96!

So never fear, you're obviously still a wonderfully popular lady! See you back in 2004...

128

[hexacontium.livejournal.com]

$128?!?
WOW. Is that you Kate, selling them there? *grin*
I recently got it off Ebay.co.uk for ~30 Pounds, which is still a lot for a pocket book. But you might give it a try, p&p to the States is not that much. I'll probably never get "Room with no doors" in mint condition. Should it appears on Ebay its old and damaged, and I'm kind of blacklisted on Amazon because I dared to disagree once when working for them.

Re: 128

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I wish!

Re: 128

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I meant to add: I should have a Room or two in pretty much mint condition. If you're interested, I'm asking $AU15 for a signed copy, plus postage. :-)

Re: 128

[hexacontium.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's wonderful, Kate. I'd tried to find that book for quiet a while and almost gave up. I'll send you a private message to work out details.

Hexa

ARGGHHH

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I'm about halfway through August 2004 now. And there are so many posts I've read that I wanted to comment on, but it seemed really weird to comment on things nearly three years past.

So, would it be weird to make comments?

On an different tack, why is the latest post in your LJ dated December 31st, 2007?

Re: ARGGHHH

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

My suggestion: read backwards until you get bored. (Comment on whatever you like, though. :-)

The forward dating on my "books read" posting keeps it at the top of my LJ, where I can gaze at it in ill-read despair.

Re: ARGGHHH

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Although it makes my head hurt, I may have to do so. But I'm reading about 1/4 of a year a night... so I'll be caught up in about a week. There are specific events I'm looking forward to reading that I'm sure you've written about: each season of the new Doctor Who series, Craig Hinton's death, etc. I think what I'll continue reading current postings, and reading past postings in order, until I'm totally caught up. I'm not going to back track just to post comments, but as I continue reading, I'll comment here and there, I'm sure.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

Not sure where to stick this (insert joke here), but I bet you'll enjoy this:

http://consumerist.com/consumer/netflix/netflix-recommends-moses-movie-for-lovers-of-death-wish-3-250077.php

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Clint Eastwood is Gideon!

[mad-march-hare.livejournal.com]

Um. Wandered over from the DW cat macro comm (I do not know how to embed links in comments, so sorry). So, yes. Big and certainly not unwelcome shock.

Um. Usually am not so forward, but I just wanted to say that I LOVED "Seeing I," in a fall-on-my-face-and-abase-myself-before-you kind of way. May I have permission to send you an email with a few questions and futher fannish flutterings?

Thank you for your time.

PS: Please to be LJ friending you, yes?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

*big grin*

Ya of course to email and friendage - I'm korman@spamcop.net.

Yay!

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

"Walking to Babylon" and "Fallen Gods" were waiting for me when I got home yesterday! I'll have something to read at work overnight tonight!

I had no idea the Telos novellas were so nice. Really impressed by it; I haven't even taken it out of the wrapper yet... I don't want to ruin it.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

BTW Kate, didn't you mention Gliese 581 in one of your books?

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

It's likely - I'm always shoving in star names. Heaven only knows which book, though!

[purple_bug.livejournal.com]

*waves* I keep randomly finding journals of people I have heard of outside of LJ. It's weird. But anyway, hi! Just dropping in to say how much I love your books :o) I finished Seeing I a week ago and loved it! Definitely the best of the Sam-runs-away story arc. I've been kinda wishing she would stay away because I think she's rather boring, but you actually gave her character! The only time I could remember her having an interesting character before was in Vampire Science, where she seemed a lot more grown up than in the other books. Oh, and it is Vampire Science that has my favourite image of book!Eight - breakfast opera. It's been almost a year since I read that book, but the image stays with me *grins* Plus, y'know, vampires. Always cool.

At the moment I am racing through a Benny Summerfield in order to get to one of your NAs. I have about thirty books borrowed from a friend - equal measures of NAs, EDAs and Bennys, and I read them in rotation. I keep counting the pages left until I can pick up The Left-Handed Hummingbird :o) I'm really hoping (and have quite a lot of confidence) that you've made Seven a bit more... well, Doctorish. Than he is in the other NAs, I mean. In the other books, there are moments when I just grin at how Doctorish he's being, but his 'manipulator of all the chess pieces' persona rubs me up the wrong way for most of the time. I read it cos it's still Who, but I'm losing confidence in the NAs - hoping you can renew that :o) I need to see some more of Seven's actual episodes, that's what I need to do.

Anyway, I'm rambling. Just wanted to say "yay, you're a brilliant author!" And your husband too. Oh, and would you mind if I borrowed the question-mark boxer shorts from Seeing I for a fic of mine? :o)