Project BOTS! November and December Edtition.

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This is the first time in the last year that I failed to write a post for BOTS.  Even July, I wrote something.  I'm genuinely sorry.  I've been a little bit busy with NaNo, school, life...  But I have read books.  Not many, but I promise that I did read something.

For November, I read The Golem and The JinniI by Helene Wecker.  I truly loved it, since it is a historical-fantasy thing and that is my all-time favorite genre (not really) but it takes place in my favorite time period (the late 1800's immigration boom) and with two supernatural creatures that very rarely get any press-time.  I recommend it, sure.

For December, I got about nine or ten new books for christmas, and I finished one in... two days?  I got a kindle! :) and my book was Jar City by Arnaldur Indriðason.  If you remember The Keeper of Lost Causes from... June? you know how much I ADORE Nordic crime stories.  This one is Icelandic, hence the "Ð", which is a letter only used in Icelandic.  I know nothing about Icelandic geography, and though the book provided a map, it was tiny.  It did have some cultural quips, though, like all of the random sheep heads lying around ;).

As for what I actually thought of it, it was very different from the Department Q books by Jussi Adler-Olsen.  The style of it followed the detective Erlendur ONLY, as opposed to occasionally shifting views to the killers.  I felt the crime was tamer, but that's probably because Iceland is tamer in that regard, as is alluded to with some frequency.  I actually got the second one, and I'll be reading it after Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness.  Which is also an Icelandic novel, but probably not a murder mystery.

On that note, I also have the SEQUEL to Clockwork Angels by Kevin J. Anderson, which I cannot express how much I am looking forward to reading it.  Along with that, I received the print version of Stand Still, Stay Silent. by Minna Sundberg.  (If you want to buy it, too, tough beans.  Sold out.  But you can read the webcomic of the same name for free.)  Also on my list, I have Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Neverending Story, The Complete Cosmicomics, and Little Women.  Two of these I have to read, but not really.  Little Women, because I have an audition for it coming up, and The Neverending story for my creative writing class.

And that *should* be all, so happy reading to everyone!