Oooh! Amazon just told me that my copy of the next Parasol Protectorate book has shipped!
Lorne: You know what they say about people who need people. Connor: They're the luckiest people in the world. Lorne: You been sneaking peeks at my Streisand collection again, Kiddo? Connor: Just kinda popped out.
'Time Bomb'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Atropa - Jun 27, 2011 10:05:51 am PDT #15433 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2011 10:22:33 am PDT #15434 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I will have to put that off as I read the Uglies series before Comic-Con! It's starting off kind of slow. I know I can't expect all YA dystopias to be The Hunger Games, but I hope it gets more exciting. I'm allowed to like Shay more than Tally, right? Because I do.
Strix - Jun 27, 2011 10:25:22 am PDT #15435 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Damn, that's fast! I thought the street date for Heartless was 7/1!
I haven't read the Uglies series, but it's in my TBR pile. One of my colleagues taught Uglies in her Freshman English class, and many students really enjoyed it.
Kat - Jun 27, 2011 10:46:21 am PDT #15436 of 28293
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
P-C NOT a fan of Westerfield and Uglies at all...Wanted to push Tally under a bus.
megan walker - Jun 27, 2011 10:52:26 am PDT #15437 of 28293
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
P-C NOT a fan of Westerfield and Uglies at all...Wanted to push Tally under a bus.
Intriguing. We're finally getting around to "Disturbing Dystopias" for our book salon and I decided to read Uglies (in addition to Fahrenheit 451, since that one is so short).
Polter-Cow - Jun 27, 2011 10:58:14 am PDT #15438 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
P-C NOT a fan of Westerfield and Uglies at all...Wanted to push Tally under a bus.
Ha! I mean, she's definitely no Katniss so far, but I've heard really good things about Westerfeld and the series, so I look forward to coolness.
Atropa - Jun 27, 2011 11:13:49 am PDT #15439 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Damn, that's fast! I thought the street date for Heartless was 7/1!
Occasionally Amazon sends me things early, and I get very excited.
Strix - Jun 27, 2011 11:23:05 am PDT #15440 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I don't blame you! I know it's awful for author sales tracking, but I get SO HAPPY whenever an ebook releases a day early.
When my sister worked at Borders, they would get books early, of course, and would have to sit on them for the street date...
She was usually extremely rigid about it, but once or twice I bludgeoned her into letting me see a copy early (she wouldn't sell it to me until the street date, but she did slip me a couple of ARC's for an afternoon, and I sucked them down with joy.)
Screw state secrets -- there's nothing more exciting than reading a new book before it hits the streets.
I'm tapping my fingers for the new Jacqueline Carey on Wednesday.
Steph L. - Jun 27, 2011 11:34:22 am PDT #15441 of 28293
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I really like the Uglies series, although I *love* his Midnighters trilogy even more.
Oooh! Amazon just told me that my copy of the next Parasol Protectorate book has shipped!
I have that on hold at the library! Which reminds me...Jilli, it was you who recommended Crocodile on the Sandbank (and the rest of the Amelia Peabody) books in a GCS column, right? Because I'm reading Crocodile on the Sandbank right now and LOVING it. I'm amused at the many, MANY similarities between Amelia Peabody and Alexia Maccon (nee Tarabotti).
Atropa - Jun 27, 2011 12:03:38 pm PDT #15442 of 28293
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yes, it was me, when a reader was asking me for interesting gothic-flavored books with no supernatural element.
The similarities between Amelia and Alexia are vast. I don't know if anyone has asked Gail Carriger if she ever read the Amelia Peabody series, but I would love to know the answer.