And you don't even get a personal pan pizza! How much do I care about winning a pen, really?
I do love my library tote bag from when they expanded summer reading to include adults.
Yes, I'm fond of my new library tote bag (though I needed another tote bag like a hole in the head) - but theirs was just 10 books - of my choosing! Easy-peasy!
I liked River of Teeth well enough,but I loved Magic for Liars and Upright Women Wanted is a lot of fun
I had Upright Women Wanted and Magic for Liars as "Want to Read" on Goodreads. But the reviews for Upright Women are warning me off because of the Western-ness. I'll have to check the reviews on Magic for Liars. I'm disappointed because I liked Sarah Gailey so much when they moderated that author event, I
really
wanted to like their books.
Oh - but I'm working on the Bingo because one row is good for 20 percent off purchase of a single book, blackout and/or books purchased at the store are raffle entries for a $100 gift cert.
Magic for Liars is not at all a Western, I guess it'd be urban fantasy? Upright Women Wanted is maybe a Western somewhat like Firefly is, I suppose. I am bad at categorizing.
I haven't even read Jasmine Guillory's new book yet!
Oh, that is hard! I hope you can get to it soon.
I agree with -t's assessment. Part of what I find off-putting with westerns is how dude-a-riffic they are, and Upright Women definitely doesn't have that going on. I guess it depends on what part of Westerns you tend to dislike.
Magic for Liars is...like a CW show, but rewritten to focus on the grownups. I liked it pretty well.
Magic for Liars is...like a CW show, but rewritten to focus on the grownups. I liked it pretty well.
Now
that
is a review that I can work with!
Clock Star Rose Spine
got some nice blurbs, including one from Samuel R. Delany.
I just started reading. The line "Exact change is required" made me laugh.
I loved River of Teeth and pretty much everything I have read by Gailey.
t-
Hee, I like World of the White Rat as a description! Possibly my favorite fictional religion. And I am a bit of connoisseur.
That's how they're grouped at GoodReads. And, indeed, one of things I like about the books is the importance of religion to some of the characters. Stephen's longing for the certainty the he lost with the death of the Saint of Steel, Caliban's need to be a true Paladin again make the characters real to me. This is something I love from Bujold's World of the Five Goods books as well.
So many other books do not include religion at all or only in a superficial way. Or go to the other extreme and are just preachy.
