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A supporting of the awesomeness of Scalzi book roundup post

February 4, 2012 in Books | No comments

Nabbed from B&N:

  • From the Ashes, by Jeremy Burns. Nabbed this one when it was a Free Friday book for the Nook a couple weeks ago.

Also nabbed from B&N, and specifically to support John Scalzi in his declaration that he would donate all of his ebook sales from Subterranean Press to Planned Parenthood until February 8th, all of the following Scalzi titles:

  • You’re Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing. This is Scalzi’s writeup about the current state of the publishing industry and what it’s like to be a writer in it.
  • The Tale of the Wicked, a short story.
  • How I Proposed to My Wife: An Alien Sex Story, another short story, whose title alone is lollertastic.
  • Judge Sn Goes Golfing, another short story, set in the universe of The Android’s Dream.
  • An Election, another short.
  • The God Engines, a novella.
  • The Sagan Diary, a novelette set in the Old Man’s War universe.
  • Questions for a Soldier, another short in the Old Man’s War universe.

Picked up electronically from the Book View Cafe, because I like the current title (it used to be called What Wild Ecstasy when it was a romance in paperback):

  • La Desperada, by Patricia Burroughs. Because also sometimes, I’m just in the mood for a Western-flavored romance.

And last but not least, picked up in print from Third Place Books:

  • The Art of How to Train Your Dragon, a hardcover book about the artwork in the movie of the same name. I ordered this as a holiday/birthday gift for userinfospazzkat, but it took a while for Third Place to get it in–and so I’m counting it towards the 2012 book tally!
  • Je Le Ferai Pour Toi, by Thierry Cohen. This is a thriller, written in French, and I picked it up on the ambitious thought that, after I finish reading the French editions of The Hobbit and Storm Front, it would be amusing to test my language skills by reading a book originally written in French–and about which I have no prior idea whatsoever. (In other words, it’ll be a while before I make it through this one!)

Which brings me to 17 for the year thus far.

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First book roundup post of the year

January 11, 2012 in Books | No comments

I realized much to my amusement that I was a scant 13 books shy of cracking the 1K mark on my To Read list, and so I did what any rabidly voracious reader ought to do in such situations: I called upon the Intarwebs for recs to push me up over the line! So now, as of this writing, I have a grand total of 1,002 books on the To Read list. And here are some amusing stats about them!

I actually own only 652 of these, and of those, 445 of them are ebooks, 119 are mass market paperbacks, 74 are trade paperbacks, 13 are hardcovers, and one is an ARC. Note also that there will be a slight margin for error here as a small number of authors are people I buy in multiple formats just because I love them and I CAN.

Of the rest of the 1,002, most of those are books I plan to check out from the library since most of them are authors who are new to me or who I haven’t read in some time. Since the vast majority of my reading these days IS electronic, before I commit to buying a new author, I prefer to test ‘em out with library checkouts. Happily, our two local library systems are ebook-friendly, so I’ve been well able to do that!

For the curious, I track this ridiculous number of books on Goodreads, and my Goodreads shelves are publicly readable. You can see ‘em all right over here, which will load you my entire list. My individual specific shelves are listed down the side of the page. And if you’re a Goodreads user, feel free to friend me there!

AND since this is of course a book roundup post, let’s get my 2012 acquisitions started, shall we?

First out of the gate are purchases from B&N, to wit:

  • Leaves of Flame, by Benjamin Tate. Fantasy, Book 2 of his current Well of Sorrows series. I very much liked Book 1 and am looking forward to reading this.
  • Unveiled, Unclaimed, Unlocked, and Unraveled, all by Courtney Milan. Historical romance, her Turner series to date, all starring various brothers of the Turner family. I checked out the first two of these from the library as aforementioned, liked them quite a bit, and have now put Milan onto my list of authors I will in fact buy directly.

And this puts me at 5 thus far for the year!

It has been suggested to me by the whomperjawed userinfomizkit that I may need a new book buying moratorium. She’s probably right. I will in fact be laying off buying further ebooks at least until the end of the month–I want to get past my birthday–and that should give me time to dip back down under the 1K mark. It’d be amusing if I could actually read as many books as I buy this year.

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Final 2011 book buying roundup

January 1, 2012 in Books | Permalink

Because Carina Press threw me a coupon at the last minute, and well hey, I like coupons!

Therefore, picked up electronically from Carina Press:

  • The Hollow House, by Janis Patterson. Period mystery-type deal. Our heroine’s living under an assumed name, and takes on the position of companion to a wealthy recluse. Only people start dying in the household of said recluse, and our heroine must work to keep from being accused of murder!
  • Dark Vow, by Shona Husk. Paranormal Western seems to be the best description for this thing, as a woman’s out to avenge the murder of her husband, and she and a man targeted by the same Arcane Bounty Hunter must go up against the Arcane Union.
  • Brass and Bone, by Cynthia Gael. Steampunk novella, with added magic.

ETA: Whoops, I also forgot that I grabbed the novella Magic Gifts from Ilona Andrews’ site, the one set in the Kate Daniels universe. I need to get caught up on those before I read this, but hey, free books are awesome.

Which makes my final 2011 tally 253. Significantly lower than 2010, I believe! We’ll have to see what 2012 brings me in the way of new books.

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Christmas Eve book roundup

December 24, 2011 in Books | Permalink

This is likely to be my last book roundup before the end of the year, so here goes!

Picked up electronically from Barnes and Noble:

  • White Tiger, by Kylie Chan. Grabbed this because it’s on sale for .99, and for that price, I’m willing to try Book 1 of quite a few things. This is urban fantasy purporting to be heavy on the Chinese mythos, though the protagonist is an Australian woman, and reviews indicate I should probably expect some Mary-Sue-ism going in. Specifically, this one was reviewed over at Smart Bitches, since there tends to be overlap between urban fantasy and paranormal romance. We’ll see where on the UF/PR spectrum this one falls.
  • Phoenix Rising, by Philippa Ballantine and Tee Morris. Steampunk, #1 of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series. I actually already have this one in mass market paperback, but I grabbed it electronically because again, .99 price point.
  • Napoleon’s Pyramids, by William Dietrich. Adventure/suspense, it looks like, of the “find the mysterious historical artifact” variety. Grabbed this one since it was a NOOK freebie.
  • Kitemaster and Other Stories, by Jim C. Hines. Short story collection. Grabbed this one because Jim Hines is generally awesome, and because there’s also a preview in here of his forthcoming Libriomancer novel.

And, picked up electronically from Kobo, since they sent me a 20 percent off coupon for a purchase because of being a customer there for a year:

  • Kit’s Law: A Novel, by Donna Morrissey. Re-buy of a book previously owned in print, a story set in Newfoundland.

247 for the year.

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The Harlequin had a 50 percent off ebook sale book roundup

December 4, 2011 in Books | Permalink

So um yeah Harlequin has a coupon up today, for 50 percent off of any purchase on their ebook store. I was going to stoically refrain until I remembered OH HEY Luna is an imprint of Harlequin–and there were quite a few Luna books I wanted to look at.

Therefore, picked up electronically from Harlequin today:

  • Urban Shaman, Thunderbird Falls, and Coyote Dreams, by userinfomizkit. The first three books of the Walker Papers, which I didn’t have electronically yet.
  • Hammer of the Earth and Shield of the Sky, by Susan Krinard. Fantasy, with what appears to be a Neolithic-like setting.
  • Aftertime, Survivors, and Rebirth, by Sophie Littlefield. Post-apocalyptic SF, with zombies. Promises to be grim, but I liked the idea of the heroine having actually recovered from a previous zombiefied state, and being on the hunt for her stolen daughter. (NOTE: Survivors is a novella set after Book 1, and Harlequin currently has it for free on their site.)
  • Cast in Shadow, by Michelle Sagara West. Fantasy. Book 1 of the Chronicles of Elantra, which I keep hearing about. I’ve read older books by her and kept meaning to check this series out.
  • The Morcai Battalion, The Morcai Battalion: The Recruit, and The Morcai Battalion: Invictus, by Susan Kyle. SF of the space opera/military variety, and I snurched these since I’m not used to seeing the Luna imprint doing SF and I wish to support this with my moneys!

242 for the year.

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Yule comes early!

November 29, 2011 in Me | Permalink

I would like to issue public thanks to userinfomaellenkleth for the kind gift of a couple of 32GB memory cards, suitable for use in my nook!

This now means that the Nookronomicon is now outfitted with a TON more space. I’m thinking I’m going to put the Read books on the memory card, since access to files on it is noticeably slower than in main memory–but that’s fine since those will be lower priority books. The Read non-B&N books, anyway; I’m not sure if I want to bother to put the B&N books I’ve read there, since I’ve been just marking those as Archived on the device, which automatically removes them, and if I want them back I can just unarchive them. And I’ve got local copies on my computer.

This should be nifty, though! And now clearly I need LOTS MORE BOOKS to fill out all this nifty space. :D

Thanks very much, userinfomaellenkleth!

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Tiny book roundup is tiny

November 25, 2011 in Books | Permalink

Re-bought electronically from Diane Duane’s site:

  • Stealing the Elf-King’s Roses, by Diane Duane. Re-buy of a book previously owned in paperback. This is Ms. Duane’s take on urban fantasy, recently re-issued with new content. Picked this up because I’d been meaning to re-read it, and I’m curious to see how she changed it.

And, bought electronically from Kobo Books:

  • Star Trek – Die Anfänge: Alle Romane in einem Band!. This is a German translation of three Star Trek novels, grabbed because I noticed Kobo’s site has got a lot of SF/F in German now, and I was curious about the translations. The novels included are Vonda McIntyre’s Enterprise: The First Adventure, Margaret Wander Bonanno’s Strangers from the Sky, and Diane Carey’s Final Frontier.

230 for the year.

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That book roundup post time again

November 12, 2011 in Books | Permalink

Because it’s what I DO.

Picked up electronically from Carina Press:

  • Unearthed, Unraveled, Unmasked, and Unleashed, all by C.J. Barry. These are sci-fi romance, and were all apparently previously published–by Dorchester. Those of you who follow the romance genre at all may now flinch in understanding! Ms. Barry appears to have found a new home at Carina, and I like me some skiffy romance, so I thought sure why not. And for the record, from what I’m seeing on Goodreads, Carina’s covers for these books are way nicer than Dorchester’s!

Picked up electronically from Torquere Books:

  • Steam-Powered 2: More Lesbian Steampunk Stories, edited by userinfoupstart_crow, JoSelle Vanderhooft! This is the sequel to the anthology I reviewed several months ago and which I found very strong overall. Looking forward to reading this. Currently available in ebook form from Torquere Books, and if you want the paperback, keep an eye on that site for ordering. I’m also seeing the paperback listed on B&N, and both the paperback and the Kindle Edition on Amazon.

Picked up electronically from Smashwords:

  • Repeating History, by userinfommegaera, M.M. Justus! This is a review copy and I’ll be reviewing it for her. Paranoral romance about a young man who is flung back in time and winds up impacting his own past.

And, picked up electronically from Barnes and Noble:

  • The Habitation of the Blessed, by Catherynne M. Valente. This was a B&N freebie a couple weeks ago, and I’d been meaning to read it anyway, so *yoink*! This is Valente’s story about Prester John, from Night Shade Books.
  • Lucky’s Lady, Cry Wolf, A Thin Dark Line, and Still Waters, all by Tami Hoag. These are various suspense novels I’d previously owned in paperback, rebought electronically.
  • The Color of Magic, by Terry Pratchett. This is of course the first Discworld novel, and I’m picking it up because a) it’s high time I read it, and b) it’s on sale for .99 on for Nook readers all throughout November.

228 for the year.

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Book roundup, special bilingual edition!

October 24, 2011 in Books | Permalink

Picked up in print, as of today, ordered for me courtesy of the awesome userinfocow:

  • Bilbo le hobbit, the French-language edition of The Hobbit
  • Avis de tempête, the French-language edition of Storm Front, the first book of the Dresden Files!

Meanwhile, from Barnes and Noble, I grabbed the ebook editions of all my previously owned X-Files novels:

  • Whirlwind, by Charles Grant
  • Antibodies, by Kevin J. Anderson
  • Skin, by Ben Mezrich
  • Goblins, by Charles Grant
  • Ruins, by Kevin J. Anderson
  • Ground Zero, by Kevin J. Anderson

I also have grabbed three more books from Carina Press, to wit:

  • Altered Destiny, by Shawna Thomas. SF/romance, it looks like.
  • Rulebreaker, by Cathy Pegau. SF. Grabbed this one very, very specifically because it’s an F/F story, and those are so thin on the ground outside of specifically LGBT presses that it ain’t even funny! If you’re looking for F/F SF (with a likely heap o’ romantic interest on the side), I’d encourage making a point of checking this one out so’s to encourage Carina Press to sell more.
  • Dangerous Magic, by Alix Rickloff. Historical/paranormal romance. The heroine’s a witch, and she’s rescued a smuggler with the intent of convincing him to father her a child. Hoping it’ll be fun!

Here’s a freebie I snarfed the other day without remembering to attribute it before–got the heads up about this one, I think, from the Smart Bitches:

  • The Inconvenient Duchess, by Christine Merrill. Historical romance. I have no idea if I’ll like it, but hey, it was free!

Last but not least, the aforementioned 501 French Verbs. The 3rd edition was the version in print that userinfomaellenkleth sent me, and the 6th edition is the one I’ve bought for the Nook!

Counting the verbs book twice for two different editions, that’s 216 for the year! J’ai lu un nombre ridicule de livres, indeed!

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The Man I Got a Lot of Books at V-CON book roundup post!

October 3, 2011 in Books | Permalink

Back from V-CON, and a full post on that will be forthcoming, but before I do that here’s a quick roundup of books recently acquired!

Picked up electronically:

  • Lord and Lady Spy, by Shana Galen. Historical romance. Nabbed this because of Smart Bitch Sarah alerting the Bitchery that it was on sale for .99 for the Nook, and I figured what the hell, I’m willing to spend 99 cents on this. It’s a historical romance version of the “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” spy scenario, and it sounds like fun!

Picked up in print, separately from V-CON:

  • Ganymede, by Cherie Priest. The next book in her Clockwork Century series, for GREAT ZOMBIE STEAMPUNK JUSTICE. ‘Nuff said!

Picked up in print, at V-CON:

  • Matriarch, by Karen Traviss. SF. This is Book 4 in her Wess’Har series, which I happened to grab because I saw it in a free books pile in the con suite. Woo!
  • Heroes Die Young, by T.M. Hunter. Bought from the nice ladies at the Champagne Books table, who even told me that if I liked this book, I could email her and say “Hey I got this at V-CON, can I have the ebook?”, and she’d let me have it! How awesome is that? As for what the book’s actually about, it’s a short space-opera type thing, with a hero in the mold of Han Solo. Which, as y’all should know by now, is very, very relevant to my interests!
  • The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation, by Steve Stanton. SF technothriller, bought from the SF Canada table (they appear to be a Canadian analog of SFWA). This is about an alien virus that vastly prolongs life, and a man desperately searching for its source so that he may grant eternal life to his son, who doesn’t have the virus.
  • Dance of Knives, by Donna McMahon. Also bought from the SF Canada table, and this one’s an SF novel about a futuristic Vancouver controlled by tongs and gangs. I was intrigued to note that this one was previously published by Tor, and the author has since gotten her rights back (due to low sales numbers) and has self-pubbed it and the sequel.
  • Forbidden Cargo, by Rebecca K. Rowe. SF, picked up from the EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing table. This one’s about the creator of a virtual system that allows instant access to all of humanity’s knowledge uncovering a plot to prove the existence of an illegally engineered race.
  • And last but definitely not least, Dirk Danger Loves Life, by Chris Rothe. Bought from the nice gentleman at the Atomic Fez Publishing table, because a) I’d heard of this book, b) Atomic Fez is an AWESOME name for a publishing company, and c) the book’s a comedy, and I’m down with the funny right now. I can’t do better than the blurb in telling you what it’s about: “a not-so-typical coming of age story involving scuba gear, terrible poetry, a fish eulogy, a walrus, pop music, terrible puns, marijuana, a fake attorney, homelessness, death, and far, far too much pornography”.

202 for the year!

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