Meanwhile, books!

[annathepiper]

Since I didn't have to go to radiation treatment tonight, I did what any self-respecting raving bibliophile would do, and went straight to the bookstore on my way home.

I've been keeping an eye out for blue_succubus's sequel to Succubus Blues, but even though the release date was early December, no sign of it yet. I've also been looking around for Suzanne Arruda's Mark of the Lion, since I inadvertently picked up the second book that goes with that and I'd prefer to read the first one first.

I found neither. But I did pick up Deanna Raybourn's Silent in the Grave.

And, much to my pleasure, desperance's Bridge of Dreams. desperance, I've been keeping an eye out for books of yours over here for a while now since I was curious, and was very pleased to finally find one!

Forthcoming on the reading queue: Laura Joh Rowland's Shinju, Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife (since a coworker has loaned me a copy and I really need to get it back to her before her contract ends and she goes back to Pakistan)... and, yes, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. I'm still going to read it, folks, honest! I just need to have my brain back long enough to be able to read on the weekends.

And I've been covetously eying the latest Julie Czerneda hardback, Reap the Wild Wind, wondering if she has yet moved into the realm of authors for whom I'd be willing to dish out hardback dollars. She and jimbutcher are about the only ones for whom I'd consider it, at this point, but!

Kristen Britain's The High King's Tomb is also tempting me, but less because she's on the list of authors I'd be willing to buy in hardback and more because I am that anxious about the ending of First Rider's Call that I really want to know if she fixed things in Book Three. I'm almost scared to look. ;)

Comments

[chamois-shimi.livejournal.com]

You may want to put off The High King's Tomb as long as you can because you'll only go ARG give me next book NOW PLEASE! *chews fingernails*

Well, alright, it's possible that's just me. I have a pathological NEED to KNOW how things turn out.

I occasionally feel grateful that the entire Lord of the Rings had been written long before I read it. I don't think I could have coped if I'd read it as it appeared.

[annathepiper]

Having glanced at Amazon reviews last night and determined that 1) the main thing I wanted to know about has not in fact been dealt with in the book, and 2) it's not actually going to be the last one in the series, this has helped me feel better about delaying until it goes paperback. ;)

Hah, and these days, LotR seems like it's become unusual again in that it actually wraps the story up in three books!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

And, much to my pleasure, desperance's Bridge of Dreams. desperance, I've been keeping an eye out for books of yours over here for a while now since I was curious, and was very pleased to finally find one!

Yay! Hope you enjoy - do let me know, yeah? (And of course, if you do enjoy, let the whole damn' world know...)

I too am very pleased you found it, but a little disturbed that it's been difficult; these books are published over there, damn it...

[annathepiper]

I shall indeed report once I read it; it'll be on the 2008 book log! ^_^

And I grant you, the most likely spot for me to find SF/F by UK authors seems to be the University Bookstore here... but I don't get to get over there as often now that I don't live near there anymore. (I found a couple of mevennen's older titles there, too!)

It seems to be a lot harder to find UK authors at Barnes and Noble, which doesn't surprise me much. Or at Third Place, the big shop near my house. They're a new/used book store, and while the size of their store is commendable, they're a lot better at stocking mystery/suspense than they are SF/F.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I really liked BRIDGE OF DREAMS. :)

[annathepiper]

Woot! I have every expectation of enjoying it myself.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

The two succubus books remind me of a series from a few years ago in which the titles were the same words rearranged:

The Island of Doctor Death
The Doctor of Death Island
The Death of Doctor Island
etc.

[annathepiper]

I only mentioned one succubus title in this post: Succubus Blues. blue_succubus is the LJ of the author of the novel in question; she's Richelle Mead. The sequel is called Succubus on Top. :)

[snarlingbadger.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey. I know Kristen Britain! I worked with her at Acadia National Park in '99, the summer after I finally got around to graduating from Purdue. I got her newest book from Mom for Xmas, but haven't finished some of the books I'd already started, so haven't started it yet.

[annathepiper]

Oh cool!

Well, I really liked her first two novels, and am looking forward to finally acquiring the third. :)