I'm so tickled. Tim hauled ass through the 4th Skulduggery Pleasant book (Dark Days) in less than a week, and is now almost done with the 5th book (Mortal Coil). Two nights ago he asked me to hide it from him so he would go to bed at a reasonable time, since he had been reading until 2 or 3 every night.
WIN WIN WIN.
He hasn't quite gotten to the part where
the Remnants infect everyone (no Tanith no no no),
but he's almost there. Thank god. I need to flail at him about
Tanith.
Oh, and about
Kenspeckle getting killed.
He'll understand, especially about
Kenspeckle,
because Tim loves
Kenspeckle.
I think when the 7th book arrives we might have a fight over who gets to read it first. (I'll win. I'm a hair-puller.)
A Game of Thrones
: I was right. The one major death spoiler I knew, and it still hurt. I almost have tears in my eyes here, and
I knew it was coming.
I
think
I know which one you're talking about, and it was the first of several "What? You can't do that!" moments for me. (There were several more, until I finally got it through my head that, in these books, anything can happen.) (Though I'm now in the fifth book, and there are a few people who seem crucial enough to the narrative that I don't think they can die without leaving huge plot threads hanging, but then again, maybe they can.)
OTOH, there are several people crucial to the plot who would close some of those loose-hanging plot threads if they died, so it more or less still comes out as "anyone could go at any moment."
Good point. At the point where I am right now,
there are too many people trying to plan things around Daenerys that her death would take too long to have much impact, but Stannis could easily die with no one even noticing. He doesn't really seem to have much purpose, anyway -- he wants to be king because the rules say he should be king, and he follows the rules.
Paul and Storm have a plea to GRRM - Write Like The Wind!
I don't remember anything NSFW about it (language, maybe?) but I'd recommend headphones, just in case.
Bujold fans might like to know that Captain Vorpatril's Alliance is available as an e-ARC from Baen's ebooks site for $15.
Oh, thank you! Mmmm, not waiting for release date, that's nice.
I'm halfway through. It's very fun, and (as a friend on my flist noted) very fannish. Also rather heteronormative, with the exception of
By being definitely identified as bi.
But one of the more entertaining bits is
Barrayar and Ivan's friends-and-relations all being viewed and commented on by an outside party with no previous knowledge of them.
This is something Bujold has done before, but it continues to entertain.
