Yet another book roundup post!

[annathepiper]

Yes, folks, it’s time for another book roundup! Titles recently purchased by me include:

Print books: Lilith’s Brood, by Octavia Butler. SF. Because I had me a 20 percent off coupon from B&N, and I have a sad relative lack of Butler in my library, and this is a nice big volume of three of her novels.

E-books (a whole mess of ‘em, a good number of which were because Fictionwise did an indie publisher sale and I wanted a bunch of Juno’s harder to find books):

• Written on Your Skin, by Meredith Duran. Romance. Because of a post by sarahtales over here that referenced this book, and which made me LOL.
• Black Hills, by Nora Roberts. Romance. Because apparently I just don’t own enough of this woman’s books yet.
• Soulless, by Gail Carriger. Fantasy. Because I’ve heard all sorts of good things about this one.
• Nights of Sin and Blood Magic by Matthew Cook. Fantasy.
• A Mortal Glamour, by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. Fantasy/Horror.
• Beyond the Hedge, by Roby James. Fantasy.
• Wind Follower, by Carole McDonnell. Fantasy.
• Riversend, by Sylvia Kelso. Fantasy.
• Jade Tiger, by Jenn Reese. Fantasy. (This one’s actually a re-buy of a print book copy I sold to Third Place. Liked it well enough that I wanted to keep an e-copy around.)
• New Tricks, by John Levitt. Urban fantasy. (Another re-buy of a print book in e-form.)
• Gordath Wood, by Patrice Sarath. Fantasy. (Another re-buy in e-form.)
• The Drowning City, by Amanda Downum. Fantasy. Because I’ve heard good things about this one too.
• Apricot Brandy, by Lynn Cesar. Fantasy.
• House of Whispers, by Margaret Lucke. Fantasy.
• Wraith, by Phaedra Weldon. Urban fantasy. Re-buy in e-form.
• Spectre, by Phaedra Weldon. Urban fantasy. Re-buy, not read yet, trading off for e-copy.
• Once a Wolf, by Susan Krinard. Romance, but a historical paranormal involving werewolves. Saw it linked in off the Fictionwise homepage and thought it sounded fun. ;)
• Shadow’s End and Grass by Sheri S. Tepper. SF. Mostly because I wanted to check her out, and Grass got recommended to me ages ago.

This brings me up to a grand total of 159 books purchased this year. I hope I just paid a few more publishing industry employees’ salaries!

Mirrored from annathepiper.org.

Comments

[jennygriffee.livejournal.com]

I was going to recommend Soulless to you last night. I really enjoyed that one. ;)

[annathepiper]

Great minds! I kept waffling a bit on this one because honestly, I wasn't sure if I wanted it in print or not, but I eventually decided to get the e-book just because I don't know this author's work yet.

[morgie.livejournal.com]

I actually like Tepper's older books better (of course, I read 'em when I was a kid....), but they are 'bout impossible to find. *grin* She's kinda like Guy G. Kay in that way. Major differences between old and new books.

[annathepiper]

Good to know! Fictionwise has several of her works in electronic form, but I didn't glance at the years of release on them; I don't know what's her older work and what's newer.

[tvaddictgurl.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed Nights of Sin and Blood Magic.

[annathepiper]

Yay! Good to have a positive review going in. :)

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

I know that a good part of what you've bought is in e-book form, that's more books than I've read in the past three years that you got this year alone. I have to remember, though, that you commute to work, whereas, wherever I work, I end up driving.

[annathepiper]

Reading on the bus does indeed up my reading tally significantly. And reading e-books is bumping it up higher!

But I'm also thinking that now that I've discovered e-books, my number of books purchased on a regular basis has also jumped up significantly. It's a lot easier and more convenient, AND it's cheaper!

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

Also, e-books are way more compact to store rather than taking up shelf space.

[annathepiper]

Indeed they are, and if I actually wind up getting the Nook, I daresay I'll fill it up very quickly. ;)