Books have been bought as of late, and lo, I am quite looking forward to them.
First and foremost: the new Elizabeth Peters, The Laughter of Dead Kings, on which I have rested quite a few hopes that maybe she'll snap out of the rut she was in with the last few Amelia Peabodies now that she's jumped over to write Vicky Bliss again. I do love me some Vicky Bliss, even if the whole 'set in modern day' gets a trifle fluid given that this series has stretched out over two decades now and the characters really haven't aged much. ;)
I was waffling about whether I was going to get this book in hardback, due to the aforementioned Amelia Peabody rut... but then Barnes & Noble flung me a coupon for it. And between that and my membership discount and the fact that they had another discount sticker on the book anyway, I wound up having to pay only twelve bucks and change for the thing. This does not suck.
Meanwhile, I have also scored Wanderlust, Ann Aguirre's latest, and thrown my hat into the ring for the nifty contest she's still a'runnin' over on her blog. I hereby serve notice that should I sell something, I am totally taking notes from this woman about how to run a contest to drum up interest in a book. Because damn.
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blackaire's latest as well: Pure Blood, the second book to go with Night Life, and which I'll look forward to going through.
All of the above, though, are going to have to wait until I make it throughjimbutcher's first Codex Alera book, finally! I've had that thing sitting on my To Read shelf for what, four years now? High time I read it. *^_^*;; I'm enjoying the beginning of it, anyway!
Wootage must also be expressed over the fact that Actual Editing is getting done on a book of my own, as Queen of Souls finally has a full second draft of its Part 1, and I can move on to editing Part 2. Hopefully I'll make at least some inroads on that before surgery next month.
The three-day weekend is as they say Nigh. For a lot of people it will involve Bumbershoot and PAX; the latter will certainly be involved for most of the household. Me, I think it'll be involving editing like a mad editing thing.
And last but not least, apparently, the fine folks at XKCD decided thatmamishka and I were the specific target audience for tonight's strip. <3
First and foremost: the new Elizabeth Peters, The Laughter of Dead Kings, on which I have rested quite a few hopes that maybe she'll snap out of the rut she was in with the last few Amelia Peabodies now that she's jumped over to write Vicky Bliss again. I do love me some Vicky Bliss, even if the whole 'set in modern day' gets a trifle fluid given that this series has stretched out over two decades now and the characters really haven't aged much. ;)
I was waffling about whether I was going to get this book in hardback, due to the aforementioned Amelia Peabody rut... but then Barnes & Noble flung me a coupon for it. And between that and my membership discount and the fact that they had another discount sticker on the book anyway, I wound up having to pay only twelve bucks and change for the thing. This does not suck.
Meanwhile, I have also scored Wanderlust, Ann Aguirre's latest, and thrown my hat into the ring for the nifty contest she's still a'runnin' over on her blog. I hereby serve notice that should I sell something, I am totally taking notes from this woman about how to run a contest to drum up interest in a book. Because damn.
And! I have
blackaire's latest as well: Pure Blood, the second book to go with Night Life, and which I'll look forward to going through.All of the above, though, are going to have to wait until I make it through
jimbutcher's first Codex Alera book, finally! I've had that thing sitting on my To Read shelf for what, four years now? High time I read it. *^_^*;; I'm enjoying the beginning of it, anyway!Wootage must also be expressed over the fact that Actual Editing is getting done on a book of my own, as Queen of Souls finally has a full second draft of its Part 1, and I can move on to editing Part 2. Hopefully I'll make at least some inroads on that before surgery next month.
The three-day weekend is as they say Nigh. For a lot of people it will involve Bumbershoot and PAX; the latter will certainly be involved for most of the household. Me, I think it'll be involving editing like a mad editing thing.
And last but not least, apparently, the fine folks at XKCD decided that
mamishka and I were the specific target audience for tonight's strip. <3
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