Have you read anything by N.K. Jemisin, sj? She's my new Recommend to Everyone. If you're in a fantasy mood, check out The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (first in a trilogy) or The Killing Moon (first in a duology).
I'm 17. Looking at linoleum makes me want to have sex.
Xander ,'First Date'
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."
Polter-Cow - May 09, 2013 11:49:15 am PDT #20763 of 28370
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
hippocampus - May 09, 2013 12:01:34 pm PDT #20764 of 28370
not your mom's socks.
seconding PC's rec for N.K. Jemisin.
-t - May 09, 2013 12:12:23 pm PDT #20765 of 28370
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What is apparently the last Sookie Stackhouse novel is out. I've got it (I find this series perfect for reading while lounging in the sun and maybe dozing off) but I haven't started it yet.
Ginger - May 09, 2013 12:18:17 pm PDT #20766 of 28370
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman is my current favorite. Also, I've just read Elizabeth Speller's two mysteries set in post-WWI Britain. The writing is lovely and the mysteries are complex.
le nubian - May 09, 2013 12:35:01 pm PDT #20767 of 28370
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
thanks for the recs. I became dissatisfied with the book I'm reading so I had to stop. I need to pick up another book an restart it.
for the love of god, I need to finish reamde too.
JZ - May 09, 2013 12:37:52 pm PDT #20768 of 28370
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
An Evening of Long Goodbyes by Paul Murray, or anything at all by Kate Atkinson. Or, to pimp for a moment, the Roz Kaveney SFF novel I co-edited last year that's racking up a metric buttload of awards and spots on best-of lists.
Strix - May 09, 2013 12:43:33 pm PDT #20769 of 28370
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I second the Kaveney book!
Connie Neil - May 09, 2013 12:52:26 pm PDT #20770 of 28370
brillig
JZ, is your publishing venture still a going concern?
JZ - May 09, 2013 1:00:24 pm PDT #20771 of 28370
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Yes, it is - volume 2 of the Kaveney tetralogy coming out this summer, and various short story anthologies churning along, including the second one to include an erika story (and also the second in which erika's is easily one of the best in the whole anthology).
It's not making money, exactly, but it's breaking even; I suspect that at some point it'll have to move from print-on-demand to actual official printing and warehousing numbered editions (which reduces the print cost and lets you drop the cover price and still make a good profit on every copy sold, but also means you have to have enough storage space for everything you can't immediately move onto the shelves of a brick-and-mortar store -- one of my brother's friends did that for several years, and because she and the other editors were working out of their houses, everyone's house turned into an unmanageable maze of book boxes). But, damn, it's painful getting into the brick-and-mortar stores, even the teeny local ones where the authors have preexisting good relationships. So, still print on demand for now, but surviving.
sj - May 09, 2013 1:56:50 pm PDT #20772 of 28370
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
JZ, the Kavney book is on my wish list, and I think I'm going to ask TCG to get it for me for my birthday. Sadly my library is teeny, and they don't have it.
PC, I have The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms somewhere on my bookshelf. It didn't grab me the first time I tried to read it, but maybe I'll try again.
My library has a very small sci fi fantasy section, but I was able to get Queen Victoria's Book of Spells off the new book table. Any read it? It's a steam punk anthology.
Then I went downstairs to the used bookstore, and grabbed the first three volumes of Sandman for a dollar each and a book on the history of Chanel No 5 for 2 dollars.