Book swapping Sunday
Apr. 30th, 2006 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiperAside from most of my afternoon and evening going to music and Great Big Sea, I spent a bit of time culling my To Be Read shelves as well--getting rid of stuff that I had to admit to myself that yeah, fine, if they've been on my shelf for over two years and aren't by authors I know damned well I'm going to love (like oh, say, Robin McKinley), they've really got to go. So I pulled a couple dozen paperbacks and a couple of hardbacks off, and scarfed a couple of books off my shelves that I knew I actually didn't want anymore as well, and put the whole shebang into a paper bag to take down to Third Place Books to sell them for store credit.
They wound up taking about half of them, as it turned out, but they said that they'd donate the ones they didn't want to the library, which was fine with me--since the whole point was to get them off my shelves to begin with. I only got eight bucks and change in store credit, but hey, that was still enough to take a big chunk out of the purchases I made while I was there. Which were![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
matociquala's Hammered, Charlaine Harris' Shakespeare's Landlord (the first of the Lily Bard series, finally, which I haven't read yet and which they have re-issued; I also looked for her latest paperback in the Dead series, but it hasn't shown up at Third Place yet), and Murder With Peacocks and Access Denied by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
donna_andrews. I've been liking Andrews' Turing Hopper series enough that I decided to start on her other series as well, the bird-themed mysteries. She's demonstrated herself to be a fun and fluffy read, so.
Meanwhile, I'm reading Tami Hoag's Kill the Messenger, but so far it's just not grabbing me. Unfortunately. I can't tell yet if this is because for once she's writing a story where the main characters are not involved in a burgeoning attraction along with the mystery du jour, or because I just don't like that she's calling on what seem to be overly familiar tropes without doing anything really new or entertaining with them. More on this later.
And I still need to do a review post for Julie Czerneda's Migration, Carrie Bebris' Pride and Prescience, and the aforementioned Donna Andrews' Click Here for Murder. But not tonight.
They wound up taking about half of them, as it turned out, but they said that they'd donate the ones they didn't want to the library, which was fine with me--since the whole point was to get them off my shelves to begin with. I only got eight bucks and change in store credit, but hey, that was still enough to take a big chunk out of the purchases I made while I was there. Which were
matociquala's Hammered, Charlaine Harris' Shakespeare's Landlord (the first of the Lily Bard series, finally, which I haven't read yet and which they have re-issued; I also looked for her latest paperback in the Dead series, but it hasn't shown up at Third Place yet), and Murder With Peacocks and Access Denied by donna_andrews. I've been liking Andrews' Turing Hopper series enough that I decided to start on her other series as well, the bird-themed mysteries. She's demonstrated herself to be a fun and fluffy read, so.Meanwhile, I'm reading Tami Hoag's Kill the Messenger, but so far it's just not grabbing me. Unfortunately. I can't tell yet if this is because for once she's writing a story where the main characters are not involved in a burgeoning attraction along with the mystery du jour, or because I just don't like that she's calling on what seem to be overly familiar tropes without doing anything really new or entertaining with them. More on this later.
And I still need to do a review post for Julie Czerneda's Migration, Carrie Bebris' Pride and Prescience, and the aforementioned Donna Andrews' Click Here for Murder. But not tonight.