2012 Reads (Lunch discussion 1 of 3)
What are you looking forward to being published in 2012? 2012 is a big year for my TBR towerS (multiple). My list, in the order of anticipated publications, near as I can tell (never mind, they’re just...
View ArticleBook Shopping
I treated myself to a haircut and a trip to the Last Bookstore In America* today. Here’s what I found. First, it took me a while to even find the bloody books. Here’s a photo. You walk in and are...
View ArticleHistorical Fantasy
Has anyone read Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay? How about Shards of Empire by Susan Shwartz? Or The Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault? As you can see, Racer is really no help in this matter.
View ArticleReadercon Book Haul
Yup. Pretty much this is the results: Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle Samuel R. Delaney, The Ballad of Beta-2 and Babel 17, met him and got him to sign! Michael Swanwick, Dancing With Bears Joan...
View ArticleStuck Between a Book and a …nother book
I have a lot of books I was really excited to read not too long ago, but now I can’t concentrate on any of them. Dissolution by CJ Sansom, The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne,...
View ArticleTBR Topple Campaign
One solution for handling the TBR pile: read them all simultaneously. Normally, I have a rather long list of books I intend to read, and things fall off the end as I add more to the beginning of that...
View ArticleTBR Campaign Initial Sort List
snort! the intention of the TBR Topple Campaign is to *reduce* the number of books on the list. Let’s dive in and see what we shall see. Alright, thanks for participating guys. I’m going to follow the...
View ArticleSeveral More Books TBR Topple
Alrighty. Let’s pop the glue seal on the cheese crackers first. … Crunch crunch … First up is to try out the new audio book. I super duper love the Matthew Shardlake series of historical mysteries set...
View ArticleKat’s TBRTopple List
Welcome back to the TBR Topple Party! (Original post here. Other participants so far include: Lynn: http://lynnsbooks.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/the-tbr-topple-campaign-taster/ Effing Rainbow:...
View ArticleTBR progress
How’s your TBR pile these days? First, I hugely deflated mine by sending about eight boxes across the country. Enjoy! Then I exchanged a “crap ton” of books at Half Price books in exchange for just a...
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