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I’ve just started TSC. I’ve read all of the witch books in a row over the past couple of weeks and loved them like I haven’t loved anything in a really long time, and I’m more than a little sad to read this one.

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For every use of the hashtag #GiveaBook on Twitter between November 16th and December 24th, Penguin Random House will donate one book to the literacy nonprofit First Book, up to 35,000 books.

A bit of bad judgement in x-mas shopping, and thought I'd give warning in case anyone is tempted to make the same mistakes I did. Briefly, if you find an obscure book by an author who is generally good or at least OK at a bargain price, stop to consider that maybe it is obscure for a good reason.

Mistake 1) Stranger in Paradise - by Robert Parker. Parker always had an oversized streak of misogyny in the Spenser books. But I had not read him in years, and in this one, that streak takes over the book. Man makes Hemingway look like a radical feminist by comparison. And Jesse Stone does not even give good smartass.

Mistake II) No Graves as Yet by Ann Perry. Opener to a WWI timeline series. This one is from 2003, so presumably there are more in the series. This first one seems to be dedicated to showing how much worse Pacifists and Socialists are than murderers. And that sometimes war is the only alternative to dishonor - and oh, BTW, England had to take part in WWI cause otherwise she would have broken her promise to Belgium a stain and dishonor that could never have been wiped away. Cause I guess England never broke any treaties before that. Looks to me like it was written to defend UK entry into the Iraq war.

These were overstocks I got for 50 cents each. So not a tragedy,but some shopping I thought was finished is not. The Ann Perry was a pre-publication review copy personally signed by the author in great condition - inlcuding dust jacket. When an autographed mint condition pre-publication release of a book goes for 50 cents maybe that should have been a clue.

I got eight books total at the 50 cent each price, and hope some of them will prove worthy of giving as gifts.

Amazon has a big ebook sale today, featuring stuff like a lot of Lord Peter mysteries -- not just the novels, but short story collections.

There's also a 30% off code for one book - use HOLIDAY30 at checkout. good for any book!

There's also a 30% off code for one book - use HOLIDAY30 at checkout. good for any book!

Oooh, thanks!!

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Wait how did this link get into my post.

Open Road Press has a number of Buffista-friendly Kindle books on sale, including:

• The Cecilia and Kate books from Wrede and Stevermer
• The Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books by Fritz Leiber
• A couple of books by John Bellairs
• A couple of books by Michael Chabon
• And Robin McKinley's Hero and the Crown

Edited to add: I think they're all $1.99 per.

And Kindle Unlimited is on sale also, which is rare! Granted, it may or may not have a ton of books you want to read, but I figured at the reduced price, I could probably make it worth that each month, the amount I read. ;)

Bellairs' The Face in the Frost is one of my favorite books.