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Walking on Glass by Iain Banks. Complex and interesting enough to keep me reading but failed to come together enough to satisfy. Three disparate tales told that try to come together in the end. Don't let this stop you reading his other science fiction which is top notch.

The Night of Morningstar, Dead Man's Handle, A Taste For Death, Dragon’s Claw and The Impossible Virgin by Peter O'Donnell, the creator of Modesty Blaise. I'm in it for the action, the cunning escapes, Willie’s amusing anecdotes, the delightful secondary characters and much more. O'Donnell has a gift for arch phrasing and deep love for an amusing type of British.

Anita Blake (001) and (002) The First Death by Laurell K. Hamilton. Back story attractively illustrated. Not sure how this would hold up for non fans but thoroughly enjoyable for me. Dolph, Zerbrowski and Edward all make appearances.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8, Issue 7, 8 & 9 by Brian K. Vaughan. I’m still happy with them, not as funny as the first five but worth the time spent reading. Oh Faith.

Supernatural: Origins 5 and 6 by Peter Johnson and drawn by Matthew Dow Smith. It hurts me and rumours that the comic will be revisited and ‘fixed’ are welcome. More specifically this storyline and the choice of artwork don't mesh with my understanding of canon and the oft times visually beautiful choices in the show.

Belladonna (Ephemera, Book 2) by Anne Bishop. Not as interesting as I wanted it to be, has a great premise but over explains and makes it more technical than is warrented. I'm reminded of Anne Rice - starts well, finishes in excessive detail.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer S8 (04) & (05) by Joss Whedon. Still very happy, like the visual style, like the 'voices'.

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Guilty Pleasures, Vol. 1 (Graphic Novel) by Laurell K. Hamilton. Pretty, so pretty. I'm in love. ETA:  Am saddened by the "To be continued..." that tags this as an expensive little hobby should I care to start collecting.

Fun, supernatural and porny as always.

Doyle threw his first ever hissy fit and there was slightly more plot than last time. Am feeling better about the whole thing.

Yups, another Anita Blake novel and dripping with my favourite characters, if you're a fan you'll get a lot out of it.

( I like this meme - 25 years ago I )

Luvly weekend, much reading and general homeness.

Went to IKEA with ascetic_hedony and bought even more shelves - much assembling and stacking took place. Evil_shelves came with 4 screws missing but massive collection of hardware-type crap in jars fixed that little problem.

Bath. Loooooooooooooooong bath.

Right elbow thoroughly munched, no more ball throwing, push-ups or punching until it's better, bought one of those handy thermoskin thingies from a terribly nice man who coaxed me out of my nice warm jacket and measured my elbow for me. Phrenology for the elbows?

Death of a Darklord by Laurell K. Hamilton. Oh Laurell, Laurell - what were you thinking? Rarely is a book quite so bad, rarely are so many elements so promising and yet so not. I am going to assume that writing for TSR's Ravenloft series takes away the pressure to write well.  All I can recommend is: Just Say No!  On the plus side, www.laurellkhamilton.org has a nifty little series of bat icons that follow the cursor = cute!