The Books of February

Another ecclectic month. Classics, profundity, adventure and fluff. For being released by a Romance line, Eileen Wilk's urban fantasy world-building isn't bad at all. And "Urban Shaman" by C.E. Murphy read like Stephanie Plum discovering Magic, very cute. Poul Anderson's Time Patrol is quite nice even upon multiple re-reading (he uses somewhat obscure eras to great effect) but, while some of the idea were interesting, I couldn't really get into Fredrick Pohl's "Gateway". Wolf Star by R.M. Meluch was particularly interesting as, at the end of the first book, the slate was wiped clean by a time travel paradox. In book two, everything happens again, different but the same. Stuff that occured _before_ the first novel happens _in_ the second one, even though #2 definitely comes _after_ the events of #1. Very confusing, but quite entertaining. "Tea With the Black Dragon" was charming, if out-dated and my one piece of nonfiction, "Zamba" tugged the heartstrings on every other page and made me want to go out and get a lion of my very own (the philosophy and metaphysics were annoying interjections, however)

And, of course, the Fionavar Tapestry was amazing.

( Twenty Nine, and not even a leap year )