Accumulated haul

Wow, it's been a while since I've done this. In part because I've not had much time for reading books (which doesn't prevent me from buying them).

Jared Bernstein & Dean Baker — Getting Back to Full Employment (non-fiction)
James Coughtrey — Six Seconds of Moonlight (sff)
Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh — The Mathematical Experience (non-fiction)
Debra Dunbar — A Demon Bound (sff)
Andy Duncan & Ellen Klages — Wakulla Springs (sff)
Dave Eggers & Jordan Bass — The Best of McSweeny's (mainstream)
Siri Hustvedt — The Blazing World (mainstream)
Jacqueline Koyanagi — Ascension (sff)
Ann Leckie — Ancillary Justice (sff)
Adam Lee — Dark Heart (sff)
Seanan McGuire — One Salt Sea (sff)
Seanan McGuire — Ashes of Honor (sff)
Seanan McGuire — Chimes at Midnight (sff)
Seanan McGuire — Midnight Blue-Light Special (sff)
Seanan McGuire — Indexing (sff)
Naomi Mitchinson — Travel Light (sff)
Helaine Olen — Pound Foolish (non-fiction)
Richard Powers — Orfeo (mainstream)
Veronica Schanoes — Burning Girls (sff)
Karl Schroeder — Lockstep (sff)
Charles Stross — The Bloodline Feud (sff)
Charles Stross — The Traders' War (sff)
Charles Stross — The Revolution Trade (sff)
Matthew Thomas — We Are Not Ourselves (mainstream)
Kevin Underhill — The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance (non-fiction)
Jo Walton — What Makes This Book So Great? (non-fiction)

So, yeah. A lot of stuff.

I went ahead and bought nearly all of the novels Seanan McGuire had out that I'd not read yet after realizing that I'm going to eventually read all of them and there's no reason not to just own them. I also bought all of the Stross reissues of the Merchant Princes series, even though I had some of the books individually, since I think it will make it more likely I'll read the whole series this way.

I have so much stuff that I want to read, but I've not really been in the mood for fiction. I'm trying to destress enough to get back in the mood, but in the meantime have mostly been reading non-fiction or really light fluff (as you'll see from my upcoming reviews). Of that long list, Ancillary Justice is getting a lot of press and looks interesting, and Lockstep is a new Schroeder novel. 'Nuff said.

Kevin Underhill is the author of Lowering the Bar, which you should read if you haven't since it's hilarious. I'm obviously looking forward to that.

The relatively obscure mainstream novels here are more Powell's Indiespensible books. I will probably cancel that subscription soon, at least for a while, since I'm just building up a backlog, but that's part of my general effort to read more mainstream fiction. (I was a bit disappointed since there were several months with only one book, but the current month finally came with two books again.)

Now I just need to buckle down and read. And play video games. And do other things that are fun rather than spending all my time trying to destress from work and zoning in front of the TV.