Back in the Saddle ... Again

Okay, after a bit of a hiatus caused by a tough quarter of Grad school and some bouts with depression, it is time to get this Book Blog back to where it should be. I plan on getting back on track with the various memes I used to participate in and I also have a backlog of reviews to get through:

A number of books:
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare
The Puppet Masters by Robert A. Heinlein
The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Redux by Philip K. Dick
Blockade Billy by Stephen King
The Three Little Pigs Buy the White House by Dan Piraro

And two audiobooks:
Horns (Audio) by Joe Hill
Doctor Who: Dead Air, An Exclusive Audio Adventure (Audio) by James Goss

My ARC of Quirk’s new book by Leo Tolstoy and Ben H. Winters—Android Karenina—finally came in the mail (too late to participate in the blogsplosion that they were holding … stupid snail mail) but I am anxiously looking forward to diving into that one later today. (Look for a teaser tomorrow.) And I am currently listening to Scott Westerfeld’s brilliant reimagining of WWI: Leviathan (read by Alan Cumming) so it is going to be a steampunk June for me.

Also, and I’ll devote a whole post to this at a later time, I have my Qualifying Exams (unaffectionately known as Comps in the corridors of the English Department at WWU) coming up in the Fall Quarter of 2010, and so I have a reading list of 24 books plus six critical texts from two time periods that I have to find time to blast through over the next three months or so, which ought to at least give me some kind of direction for my reading.

I guess the bottom line here is that I am hoping to jumpstart this blog (again) and get everything back on track. At least until the baby comes in August…