Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Monday, June 13, 2011

INCOMING

A little bit of everything this week.  Heaney's translation of Beowulf is supposed to be very good and goes near the top of Mount TBR.
  • Piers Anthony, Letters to Jenny.  Correspondence.  A mitzvah.
  • Lee Child, Echo Burning, a Jack Reacher mystery.
  • John Connelly, Black Angel, The Unquiet, and The White Road.  Charlie Parker mysteries.
  • Michael Connelly, The Closers ( a Harry Bosch mystery) and Three Great Novels (an omnibus volume containing A Darkness More Than Light, City of Bones, and Chasing the Dime)
  • Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter.  Mystery novel.
  • Laurell K. Hamilton, Danse Macabre.  An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel.  I have never read any of her books.  I understand that I might blush.
  • Seamus Heaney, translator, Beowulf.  A new translation of the classic poem in a bilingual edition.
  • Charlie Huston, Already Dead.  Mystery novel -- with vampires/
  • Elmer Kelton, Hard Road to Follow, and Many a River.  Both westerns.
  • Stephen King, Everything's Eventual.  Collection of 14 horror stories.
  • Carolyn Parkhurst, The Dogs of Babel.  Novel with fantasy overtones.
  • Don Pendleton, Copp for Hire.  Mystery by the man who created The Executioner.
  • Isaac Bashevis Singer, Satan in Goray (fantasy novel), Shosha (novel), and The Spinoza of Market Street (collection of eleven stories, many fantasy).

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