all books all the time

Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way We Treat Animals - Karen Dawn. ( Read more... )

The James Tiptree Award Anthology 3 - Edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Pat Murphy, Debbie Notkin, and Jeffrey D. Smith. ( Read more... )

Halfway to the Grave - Jeaniene Frost. ( Read more... )

Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing - Edited by Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss. ( Read more... )

My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon - Edited by P.N. Elrod. ( Read more... )

Global Divas: Filipino Gay Men in the Diaspora - Martin F. Manalansan IV. ( Read more... )

Iron Kissed - Patricia Briggs. ( Read more... )

Hum Bows, Not Hot Dogs!: Memoirs of a Savvy Asian American Activist - Bob Santos. ( Read more... )

Personal Demon - Kelley Armstrong. ( Read more... )

The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed Heritage Asian Americans - Edited by Teresa Williams-Leon & Cynthia L. Nakashima. ( Read more... )

Getting in Ttouch with Your Cat: A New & Gentle Way to Harmony, Behavior, & Well-Being - Linda Tellington-Jones. ( Read more... )

Please Do Feed the Cat - Marian Babson. ( Read more... )

The Little Guide to Beating Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Blocks: A Manual for Artists, Activists, Entrepreneurs, Academics and Other Ambitious Dreamers - Hillary Rettig. ( Read more... )

Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals - Edited by Steven Best, Ph.D and Anthony J. Nocella II. ( Read more... )

Kitty and the Silver Bullet - Carrie Vaughn. ( Read more... )

GenXpat: The Young Professional's Guide to Making a Successful Life Abroad - Margaret Malewski. ( Read more... )

Smoky Mountain Tracks - Donna Ball. ( Read more... )

Capers in the Churchyard: Animal Rights Advocacy in the Age of Terror - Lee Hall. ( Read more... )

Breathless in Bombay - Murzban F. Shroff. This collection of short stories was, as they say, easier to admire than to like. It took me weeks to get through this book. I can see that Shroff is a good writer, in that he has some good turns of phrase & evocative descriptions & all that. But I found it really hard to empathize with, or care much about, any of his characters.

Starting off 2008 by letting this journal sit too long. Here are mostly-brief writeups of what I've read thus far:

Felinestein: Pampering the Genius in Your Cat - Suzanne Delzio and Cynthia Ribarich. ( Read more... )

The Shadow Speaker - Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu. ( Read more... )

Parrotfish - Ellen Wittlinger. ( Read more... )

Not Home, But Here: Writing from the Filipino Diaspora - Edited by Luisa A. Igloria. ( Read more... )

Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time - Edited by Patricia Justine Tumang and Jenesha de Rivera. ( Read more... )

The Feeling Good Handbook - David D. Burns, M.D. ( Read more... )

Learn to Play Go: A Master's Guide to the Ultimate Game - Janice Kim and Jeong Soo-hyun. ( Read more... )

The Blood Books, Volume Three - Tanya Huff. ( Read more... )

The Thread That Binds the Bones - Nina Kiriki Hoffman. ( Read more... )

Extras - Scott Westerfeld. ( Read more... )

The Sherwood Ring - Elizabeth Marie Pope. ( Read more... )

Poltergeist - Kat Richardson. ( Read more... )

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Edited by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. ( Read more... )

Stormwitch - Susan Vaught. ( Read more... )

So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy - Edited by Nalo Hopkinson & Uppinder Mehan. ( Read more... )

The Rules for Hearts - Sara Ryan. ( Read more... )

Dime Store Magic - Kelley Armstrong. ( Read more... )

Industrial Magic - Kelley Armstrong. ( Read more... )

PopCo - Scarlett Thomas. ( Read more... )

The Sons of Heaven - Kage Baker. ( Read more... )

Stepping Lightly: Simplicity for People and the Planet - Mark A. Burch. ( Read more... )

Being Vegan: Living with Conscience, Conviction, and Compassion - Joanne Stepaniak. ( Read more... )

Arrows of Rain - Okey Ndibe. ( Read more... )

Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement - Gary L. Francione. ( Read more... )

The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World without Losing Your Way - Hillary Rettig. ( Read more... )

Choose Peace and Happiness: A 52-Week Guide - Susyn Reeve. ( Read more... )