Author: Emma Bull.
Title
War for the Oaks.
Title: Territory.
Genre: Fantasy
Book number/Goal: 65 and 66 of 225 by 12/31/09.

Review: I liked both of these books quite a lot, though I had a few reservations about them even so. War for the Oaks is set in Minneapolis in the late 1980s and tells the story of guitarist/singer Eddi McCandry, who is recruited by the Seelie Court to bring mortality to its battles for territory within the city with the Unseelie Court. Territory is set in Tombstone, Arizona in the spring and summer before the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corrall in October of that year: it follows Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, itinerant horse-tamer/magician Jesse Fox and typesetter-turned-lady-reporter Mildred Benjamin as they confront their own magic, despite their ignorance of it, and each other. Further thoughts here at my journal.

Name: [personal profile] starlady
Goal: 225 books by 31 December 2009
Definition of "book": Anything goes, including graphic novels and manga (I read manga in Japanese, which certainly involves more effort than translated volumes *g*). Also counting rereads, if they are thorough, cover-to-cover efforts.
Books read so far: 64

A little about my goal and my reading habits: I have a five season gap between now and entering graduate school, plus access to a library system in English, and I want to take full advantage of them. I read mostly genre fiction, history, and critical theory, as well as random Japanese books. Some of these I post more about than others. I also love picture books, and want to read more of them.


Title: The Final Solution
Title: Maps and Legends
Author: Michael Chabon
Book Number/Goal: 63 and 64 of 225

Review: The Final Solution is a novelette-length Sherlock Holmes fanfic; Maps and Legends collects most of Chabon's essays on writers and writing to date. Further thinky-thoughts here at my journal. 
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