The living room pile

Another highly productive weekend. I'm exhausted. There are two big piles of books in my house; one in the living room (books in transit) and one by the bed. To occupy the empty (book-free) hours while the boys sleep, I'm sorting out the living room pile today. It's illuminating. Waiting to be read: Barbara Kingsolver, 'Animal, Vegetable, Miracle' (I didn't finish it before the new world order commenced; I've been describing it to everyone I know based on the half I have read, probably wildly innacurately.) Celia Lashlie, 'He'll be OK' (About raising boys into good men; barely skimmed the first chapter so far and I'm a bit scared of it. Parenting books are usually exhausting and demoralising.) Philip Reeve, 'Mortal Engines' and 'Predator's Gold' (Young adult fantasy about vast mechanised cities which float above the ground and prey on each other for raw materials; a really great idea I think.) Sherri S Tepper, 'Shadow's End' (Now this is typical; great sci fi, but have probably already read it and just can't recall.) Edith Wharton, 'The Buccaneers' (A garage sale buy, again I've almost certainly read it but can't recall plot, character or flavour.) Julian May, 'The Many Coloured Land' (Classic fantasy which I think I missed when I was in my teens but I know it's superb. I feel exhausted just looking at this fat onmibus edition, though, so this one may stay unread for a few months yet.) Carlos Ruiz Zafon, 'The Shadow of the Wind' (One of those A&R 'Top 100' books I was marketed into buying. I have started it but couldn't get into it, so this one may remain unread.) 

Recently read and going back to their owners/garage sale/bookshelf; heaps of fantasy, you can see I was drowning it it: Patrick Rothfuss, 'The Name of the Wind' (I was furious when I got to the end and realised it is part one of more. Wonderful, strong, engrossing book.) Jennifer Fallon, The Demon Child trilogy, The Tide Lords trilogy (Loved the Tide Lords, indifferent to the Demon Child.) D M Cornish, 'Monster Blood Tattoo' Book 2. (Long-awaited sequel to a ripper of a first book. It's being marketed as young adult fantasy but it's Harry Potter-esque, with a keen adult market, dense and witty.) Matthew Derby, 'Super Flat Times' (Recommended by Z. Awful, mean-spirited, dark and dour sci fi about a bleak future. Tasted nasty, I couldn't finish it.) Elizabeth Moon, 'The Serrano Legacy' (Another omnibus, vastly fat. I adored every bit of it and didn't talk to my family for 2 weeks. This is the third omnibus, just imagine the inches lined up on the bookshelf.) I am obliged to note that the 'recently read' list is a good deal less diverse (and less worthy) that the 'intending to read' pile. Perhaps my new reading regime (post-31 October) needs a rationing system for fantasy?