And, yet a few more books

[annathepiper]

Picked up electronically:

• Sasha: A Trial of Blood and Steel, by Joel Shepherd. Fantasy, one of Pyr’s line. Currently available for free on the Kindle store, so I snagged it for reading on either the phone or the iPad when I’m in the mood. Pyr unfortunately doesn’t hand nearly as much electronic love to the Nook store; the title’s available for sale there, but free beats nearly ten bucks, so.
• Countdown: A Newsflesh Novella, by Mira Grant. For reasons which should be ENTIRELY OBVIOUS, given my love of Feed and Deadline. Those of you who follow seanan_mcguire know she was posting snippets of this leading up to the release of Deadline, but this is the polished up, edited version. Those of you who are e-inclined, grab this–it’ll help convince her publisher to let her do another one leading up to the release of Blackout.
• The Door into Sunset, The Door into Fire, and The Door into Shadow, all by dduane. Ebook editions of the “Door Into” books by Diane Duane, currently available for sale directly from the author over on her site. Those of you who are longtime fans of hers and in particular of this series may wish to check her post about the STARLIGHTGUILT discount currently active, and why she hasn’t finished this series in the last thirty years.
• Prince Ivan, Firebird, and The Golden Horde, all by Peter Morwood, also available for direct sale on Diane Duane’s ebook site. These are re-releases of the Tales of Old Russia, and y’all should check Ms. Diane’s LJ post about that, including an OLDRUSSIA coupon code. Act fast, I don’t know how long this discount will be active!
• Footsteps in the Dark, by Georgette Heyer. Old-school romantic/paranormal suspense, this week’s freebie from B&N.

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Comments

[arjache.livejournal.com]

Yay the Middle Kingdoms trilogy! (aka the Door books.) I just read through those recently; they're a lot of fun.

[annathepiper]

I've got the first two in paperback and read them ages and ages and ages ago--long enough ago that all I really remember about them is the group marriage at the end of Book 1, I think it was, where everybody was all 'hey, let's get married!' Even the dragon. Which was kind of cool.

Wanted to pick them up again just because I love the idea of authors re-releasing their own backlists in ebook form, under their control, and being able to give them money for it.

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

The group marriage with the dragon is actually at the end of book 3 ;) Love that series, hope she gets around to finishing it.

[annathepiper]

Really? That baffles me, given that I only own Fire and Shadow, not Sunset, and I distinctly remember reading that scene. I wonder if I borrowed the third one from somebody at some point. This would have been way before I was on Goodreads or LJ, so I have no way of knowing!

[gerimaple.livejournal.com]

borrowed from the library, maybe?

[annathepiper]

Considering when I would have read these, more likely probably borrowed from either lyonesse or mamishka or possibly sutures1, as they are all former members of the Murkworks household. And likely to have a copy of the book. :) I now Ellen (sutures1) is a fan!

[mistwolf.livejournal.com]

They were amongst my earliest reads and influenced me greatly. I've been signal boosting the STARLIGHTGUILT post since it has been up, and though I have them all in paperback, I was happy to rebuy them as ebooks to reiterate my support, and because odds are high I bought the originals second hand to begin with. :)

So glad to see it boosted here!

[wildshadowstar.livejournal.com]

If she's the same writer, did you know that Diane Duane was an episode writer for the original Trek series and written several books in Trek universe.

[annathepiper]

Yep, that's the same woman. Dara and I have one of her excellent Trek novels, The Wounded Sky.

Crowe/Doyle music + Dani

[boxer-ferret.livejournal.com]

So what do you think of the threesome's new music? It is a threesome to fit the format of a movie we may or may not get to see. But there is still the music.

Re: Crowe/Doyle music + Dani

[annathepiper]

Oh, I very, very much need to do a full and proper review post for that album. Very short form review is--damn, they sound pretty together. I think I liked "Killing Song" and "Queen Jane" best of the various tracks, and except for "Killing Song", I actually preferred most of the acoustic versions. Just because on those, Alan sounds more recognizably like himself to me, whereas on the full tracks, he tends to get lost in the mix.

I still want to hear Russell doing guest vocals on a GBS album though. ;>