¹A selection of thoughts about games, based on things I learn from other media.
Reading from 2009
- Bear, Elizabeth: Dust, 01/02/09
- Connolly, John: The Book of Lost Things, 01/07/09
- Gaiman, Neil: Mirrormask, 01/07/09
- Saramago, José: Death With Interruptions, 01/17/09
- Hornby, Nick: Shakespeare Wrote for Money, 01/17/09
- Gaiman, Neil: The Graveyard Book, 01/19/09
- Lethem, Jonathan: The Wall of the Sky, The Wall of the Eye, 01/19/09
- Parker, Robert B.: Rough Weather, 02/05/09
- King, Stephen: Just After Sunset; Stories, 02/08/09
- Thomas, Scarlett: PopCo, 02/15/09
- Neville, Katherine: The Eight, 02/22/09
- Roth, Philip: Everyman, 02/23/09
- McCarthy, Cormac: Child of God, 02/27/09
- Brooks, Max: World War Z, 02/28/09
- Sutter and Alexandrescu: C++ Coding Standards (Feb 2009)
- Brubaker, Ed: Lawless, 02/28/09 (Criminal v2)
- Vaughn, B: Y: The Last Man, 03/05/09
- Wiggins, Marianne: The Shadow Catcher, 03/04/09
- O'Nan, Stewart: Songs for the Missing, 03/07/09
- Faber, Michel: The Fire Gospel, 03/09/09
- Delisle, Guy: Pyongyang: A Year in North Korea, 03/10/09
- Baxter, Charles: The Feast of Love, 03/14/09
- Moore, Christopher: Bloodsucking Fiends, 03/17/09
- Brubaker, Ed: Dead Robin, 03/18/09
- Roth, Philip: Indignation, 03/20/09
- Brubaker, Ed: The Dead and the Dying, 03/21/09
- Rucker, Rudy: spaceland; A Novel of the Fourth Dimension, 03/31/09
- Hunt & Thomas: The Pragmatic Programmer (April)
- Dorst, Doug: Alive in Necropolis, 04/04/09
- Bausch, Richard: Peace, 04/05/09
- Choi, Susanna: A Person of Interest, 04/16/09
- Scalzi, John: Zoe's Tale, 04/18/09
- Baxter, Charles: The Soul Thief, 04/21/09
- Padillo, Ignacio: Shadow Without A Name, 04/23/09
- Grossman, Lev: Codex, 4/25/09
- Diaz, Junot: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 05/05/09
- Capote, Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany's, 05/09/09
- Bock, Charles: Beautiful Children, 05/17/09
- Black, Benjamin: The Silver Swan, 05/25/09
- Mills, Magnus: The Restraint of Beasts, 05/25/09
- Busiek, Kurt et al: Camelot Falls, 05/31/09
- Stasiuk, Andrej: Nine, 06/02/09
- Azzarrello, Brian, et al.: Superman: For Tomorrow, 06/06/09
- Yang, Gene Luen: American Born Chinese, 06/10/09
- Powers, Richard: Prisoner's Dilemma, 06/19/09
- Grahame-Smith, Seth: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 06/24/09
- Pronzini, Bill: Spook, 07/04/09
- Pronzini, Bill: Savages, 07/11/09
- Robinson, Marilynne: Gilead, 07/12/09
- Neel, Janet: O Gentle Death, 07/18/09
- Smith, Tom Robb: Child 44, 07/19/09
- Child, Lee: The Hard Way, 07/21/09
- Lehane, Dennis: Shutter Island, 07/26/09
- Simmons, Dan: A Winter Haunting, 07/30/09
- Child, Lee: Running Blind, 08/01/09
- Godin, Seth: Meatball Sundae, 08/02/09
- Godin, Seth (Ed.): The Big Moo, 08/03/09
- Harris, Robert: The Ghost, 08/05/09
- Pronzini, Bill: Schemers, 08/07/09
- Godin, Seth: Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us, 08/10/09
- Godin, Seth: Free Prize Inside, 08/14/09
- Perotta, Tom: The Abstinence Teacher, 08/19/09
- Phillips, Arthur: The Song Is You, 08/21/09
- Bausch, Richard: Out of Season, 08/23/09
- Foster, Martin: Refactoring (September)
- Rendell, Ruth: Not in the Flesh, 09/07/09
- Child, Lee: Bad Luck and Trouble, 09/13/09
- Child, Lee: Persuader, 09/15/09
- Smith, Tom Rob: The Secret Speech, 10/24/09
- Hynes, James: Kings of Infinite Space, 11/14/09
- Rash, Ron: Serena, 12/1/09
- Stockett, Kathryn: The Help, 12/20/09
- Dickens, Charles: A Christmas Carol, 12/24/09
- Gudenkauf, Heather: The Weight of Silence, 12/29/09