annual favorite 2014

This year's Upside Your Mind favorite book is:

The Wise Man's Fear

by

Patrick Rothfuss.

***

Runner up:

Fiendish Schemes

by

KW Jeter

BANNED BOOKS 2: Whores, Talking Pigs & Euthanasia

2014

Books I read this year.

1. Homunculus - James P. Blaylock
2. Dinner at Deviant's Palace - Tim Powers
3. Shockwave Rider - John Brunner
4. Get Jiro! - Anthony Bourdain
5. 1984 - George Orwell
6. Underground 3: Rowlf - Richard Corben
7. Lux the Poet - Martin Millar
8. Ender in Exile - Orson Scott Card
9. Dune - Frank Herbert
10. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
11. A Wizard of Earthsea - Ursula K. LeGuin
12. Secrets of the Shopping Mall - Richard Peck
13. Eye in the Sky - Philip K. Dick
14. The Visible Man - Chuck Klosterman
15. Hylozoic - Rudy Rucker
16. Fiendish Schemes - KW Jeter
17. The Big Chunk of Ice - Bertrand Brinley

Neil's Book of the Dead

currently reading

The Big Chunk of Ice

by

Bertrand R. Brinley

BANNED BOOKS: Boobies, Pillz & Aliens

currently reading

Fiendish Schemes

by

K.W. Jeter

recommended

Someone on reddit recently asked what is an amazing book from a genre I typically don't read. Here's my recommendation. Bimbos of the Death Sun by Sharyn McCrumb. It's a whodunit set at a science fiction convention.

R.I.P.

currently reading

Hylozoic

by

Rudy Rucker 

currently reading

The Visible Man

by

Chuck Klosterman

Thug Kitchen Cookbook

currently reading

Eye in the Sky

by

Philip K. Dick

currently reading

Secrets of the Shopping Mall

by

Richard Peck

I remember reading this when I was in middle school.

I found this copy at Gardeners a while ago and decided to reread it.

Earthsea

currently reading

A Wizard of Earthsea

by

Ursula K. LeGuin

PSA

Joe Goes BOOKS

Sword & Laser

currently reading

The Wise Man's Fear

by

Patrick Rothfuss

Thug Notes 2

Walking on Arrakis

currently reading

Dune

by

Frank Herbert 

at the library 17

currently reading

Ender in Exile

by

Orson Scott Card 

Summer Reading 3

I've been reading kind of slow lately, that's why I only chose three books this summer. It's still a lot of reading, over 2000 pages altogether . It might take me till Halloween to finish reading them. 

currently reading

Lux the Poet

by

Martin Millar

collector's item

Rowlf/Underground 3

by

Richard Corben

I finally got this back. It was missing from my collection for a while. Then it was on my Amazon wish list for a long time, but it cost fifty or sixty bucks. Then one day someone offered it for 30. Now it's mine once again.

Thug Notes

currently reading

1984

by

George Orwell

Graphic

Get Jiro!

by

Anthony Bourdain

and

Joel Rose

Art by

Langdon Foss

at the library 16

currently reading

Shockwave Rider

by

John Brunner 

options winner

Dinner at Deviant's Palace

by

Tim Powers

Congratulations Seahawks 

option read

It's time once again for two football teams to battle it out over which book I'm going to read next.

The Denver Broncos represent Love and Peace With Melody Paradise by Martin Millar.

The Seattle Seahawks represent Dinner at Deviant's Palace by Tim Powers.

I don't know who's going to win, They both look like pretty good books.

currently reading

Homunculus

by

James P. Blaylock