February 12th, 2010 - 3:43 pm
» 24 Books: February (1)
I just finished listening to Odd & the Frost Giants, by Neil Gaiman, read by Neil Gaiman. It’s a short one, just two discs, but Neil’s a fantastic writer and (rare beast) a fantastic narrator, and this one didn’t disappoint. A lovely Norse fairytale. If you like audiobooks, you should definitely hunt down all of Neil’s stuff. A good share of it is read by him (I can recall the short stories, The Graveyard Book, and Coraline off the top of my head), and the stuff that isn’t (Anansi Boys for sure) is still wonderful. Broken record, but: nothing ruins a good book like a bad narrator.
Anyhow, Odd & the Frost Giants being so short, I’m not sure how to count it. One? Half?
I’ve also just devoured issues 25-33 of the Buffy Season 8 comic series, plus the two extras (the Willow one and — can’t remember the title, but the one about the new small town vampire boy), and Angel: After the Fall volumes 1 and 2. I have 3 and 4 waiting. And I have NO ONE to gasp over them with. Though Joe is finishing up season 5 of Angel right now, so I’ll soon be able to force the comics on him. (He just finished watching Smile Time, which is on the same disc as Hole in the World, and: dude. That has to be one of the finest discs in the whole Buffy & Angel collection, yeah?) Joss Whedon is involved in the comics, so of course they are wonderful and utterly terrible.
So anyway, I’m going to add all those littler things together (including the Angel volumes I haven’t read but will in the next few days) and call it — two. Two books so far for February.
2010 Book Count: 4 (+3 fluff)
January: 2 (+3 fluff)
February: 2