I was able to get some more Skulduggery Pleasant ebooks (more) legally by tricking Kobobooks.ca into thinking I was Canadian and paying with Paypal. A pain, but at least the publishers and authors got their due.
And now I have reading to do!
See, Vera? Dress yourself up; you get taken out somewhere fun.
Jayne ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
Gris - Aug 28, 2014 10:24:58 am PDT #22618 of 28635
Hey. New board.
Pix - Aug 28, 2014 5:14:21 pm PDT #22619 of 28635
The status is NOT quo.
Connie, she established that it was never sexual, but intimate on more of a soul level.
So yes and no. It’s really not about the two of them for most of the book.
erikaj - Aug 29, 2014 11:29:51 am PDT #22620 of 28635
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I'm reading this book on women's history, which is very good so far, but there is also something sort of weird about the copy-editing: it never puts an e in taxes. Is that a thing somewhere and I didn't know?
Strix - Aug 29, 2014 11:48:03 am PDT #22621 of 28635
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Uh...no. It's a wrong thing. WTF?
erikaj - Aug 29, 2014 7:14:06 pm PDT #22622 of 28635
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
I know! And given that it's a history of how government came to be, the issue comes up a lot.(I thought that was something UKers write like we do...of all the errors.Sometimes the editing is not that great when established books are kindle-ized, but that seems oddly specific. WTF, indeed!)
Typo Boy - Aug 29, 2014 8:58:51 pm PDT #22623 of 28635
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I suspect that you are right that it is part of Kindleization. Weirdly consistent character substitutions do happen.
hippocampus - Aug 30, 2014 3:54:08 pm PDT #22624 of 28635
not your mom's socks.
Consuela, it made me so happy just now to see you and Liz Bourke twittering. Just waned to say.
Consuela - Aug 30, 2014 3:59:03 pm PDT #22625 of 28635
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Hah! I've been following her for a while, actually: I really like her posts over at Tor, especially when she was doing the massive rereads of women writers.
I respect that Judith Tarr is doing the reread of Melanie Rawn, but I rather wish someone would take on, say, some early Cherryh (The Morgaine Saga?) or LeGuin or Jonathan Strange. I loved Kate Nepveu's reread of LotR, and I'm kind of annoyed at all the acreage devoted to the books of the Malazan (forsooth).
hippocampus - Aug 30, 2014 4:07:09 pm PDT #22626 of 28635
not your mom's socks.
Oh man a LeGuin re-read or Jonathan Strange would be amazing. Ditto the Cherryh. Say something and aim it at tor.com? or post on one of the open threads?
EpicTangent - Sep 03, 2014 11:12:56 am PDT #22627 of 28635
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Description in the Bookbub email for today:
The Mine
By John A. Heldt
Joel Smith is transported nearly 60 years into the past to 1941. The country is approaching war, and Joel finds himself living a new life. But when he must choose between love and his former self, what will he do? “Refreshing and thought-provoking” (USA Today) with over 150 five-star Amazon reviews.
Just me, or does somebody owe Diana Gabaldon money?