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desayunoencamaHmm, 6:45am and I've already breakfasted and answered all my emails (mostly from Europe since they're six hours ahead of where I am now). As my friend Keith would say: "Who are you and what have you done with Lawrence?"
It still looks gray and dismal out there, but I'm not sure howmuch of that has to do with the fact that the sun is not up yet (and did I mention that it gets fast so EARLY here) or if it plans to be overcast and wet again all day.
But, looking for a positive outlook, some good things from yesterday:
Got the check for that little squib on how to pick up guys when you don't speak the language.
And found copies of GREAT HOUSEWIVES OF ART and a pbk of Felicia Lamport's LIGHT METRES (illustrated by Edward Gorey) which are both favorites and hard to find. (I always buy up copies when I see them.)
Other books I bought yesterday include:
Elizabeth A. Lynn, NORTHERN GIRL (I have books 1 and 2 waiting in Madrid, but didn't want to start without 3).
Hilari Bell, FALL OF A KINGDOM (I have a galley fo book 2 from BEA, although it says Book 3 not out until Fall 06. Bother. I've read Bell's earlier fantasy YAs and have liked them well enough. This looks more ambitious. May wait until Book 3 is out, though, so as not to have to wait to find out what happens. Impatient? Who, me?)
Marian Keyes, CRACKS IN MY FOUNDATION. This is a second collection of her stories and essays. I am fond of her big hulking doorstops of self-help-flavored chicklit about nice Irish girls for whom everything in their life goes wrong until they have epiphany and take charge of their own future/life/etc. and things start to change.
Laura Whitcomb, A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT. This seems to be a very literary ghost YA romance.
Carole Wilkinson, DRAGON KEEPER. Melbourne YA fantasy author, with a novel about Chinese dragons and a slave girl who helps them. Looked interesting enough that even though it was $6 for the hardcover (the most expensive book I bought yesterday) I decided to get it anyway.
Sharon Shinn, ANGEL SEEKER. I've read the 4 previous, which are all really a riff on the vampire romance model, but very readable.
Tamora Pierce, BRIAR'S BOOK. (I've been waiting to read this final volume in the series FOREVER. But lately, Pierce's books are hard to find. Maybe kids don't ever give them up? But even at the superstores, I've been having trouble finding where they are. Pierce is an author where it's best to have all 4 in the series in hand before starting, because they're all one story, really, and I tend to go through them like I do a bag of Swedish Fish--one of the things for me to buy now that I'm trying to avoid chocolate; vegetarian gummy candies is not a concept that exists yet in Spain, where they'll put ham in EVERYTHING.)
I also picked up a galley of China Mieville's LOOKING FOR JAKE, although I've never read anything of his (and am not sure I'm going to like him, although many people I know do).
It still looks gray and dismal out there, but I'm not sure howmuch of that has to do with the fact that the sun is not up yet (and did I mention that it gets fast so EARLY here) or if it plans to be overcast and wet again all day.
But, looking for a positive outlook, some good things from yesterday:
Got the check for that little squib on how to pick up guys when you don't speak the language.
And found copies of GREAT HOUSEWIVES OF ART and a pbk of Felicia Lamport's LIGHT METRES (illustrated by Edward Gorey) which are both favorites and hard to find. (I always buy up copies when I see them.)
Other books I bought yesterday include:
Elizabeth A. Lynn, NORTHERN GIRL (I have books 1 and 2 waiting in Madrid, but didn't want to start without 3).
Hilari Bell, FALL OF A KINGDOM (I have a galley fo book 2 from BEA, although it says Book 3 not out until Fall 06. Bother. I've read Bell's earlier fantasy YAs and have liked them well enough. This looks more ambitious. May wait until Book 3 is out, though, so as not to have to wait to find out what happens. Impatient? Who, me?)
Marian Keyes, CRACKS IN MY FOUNDATION. This is a second collection of her stories and essays. I am fond of her big hulking doorstops of self-help-flavored chicklit about nice Irish girls for whom everything in their life goes wrong until they have epiphany and take charge of their own future/life/etc. and things start to change.
Laura Whitcomb, A CERTAIN SLANT OF LIGHT. This seems to be a very literary ghost YA romance.
Carole Wilkinson, DRAGON KEEPER. Melbourne YA fantasy author, with a novel about Chinese dragons and a slave girl who helps them. Looked interesting enough that even though it was $6 for the hardcover (the most expensive book I bought yesterday) I decided to get it anyway.
Sharon Shinn, ANGEL SEEKER. I've read the 4 previous, which are all really a riff on the vampire romance model, but very readable.
Tamora Pierce, BRIAR'S BOOK. (I've been waiting to read this final volume in the series FOREVER. But lately, Pierce's books are hard to find. Maybe kids don't ever give them up? But even at the superstores, I've been having trouble finding where they are. Pierce is an author where it's best to have all 4 in the series in hand before starting, because they're all one story, really, and I tend to go through them like I do a bag of Swedish Fish--one of the things for me to buy now that I'm trying to avoid chocolate; vegetarian gummy candies is not a concept that exists yet in Spain, where they'll put ham in EVERYTHING.)
I also picked up a galley of China Mieville's LOOKING FOR JAKE, although I've never read anything of his (and am not sure I'm going to like him, although many people I know do).
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Date: 2005-09-27 12:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-27 12:32 pm (UTC)I think that China Mieville is a terrific writer of books that I truly do not want to read. I find his psychological horror to be so authentic and not my cup of tea, despite being excellently done.
Haven't read anything by Shinn. What would you recommend?
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Date: 2005-09-27 06:47 pm (UTC)In terms of Shinn, I started with her WRAPT IN CRYSTAL, which I found a thought-provoking novel about religion with the added value of it being a standalone.
I've also liked the Samaria novels. They're not especially innovative (say, the way Octavia Butler's Xenogenisis series is) but they're well-done SF-nal romances (although they're sort of transposed vampire romances, really; they fulfill all the tropes, evne though they're winged "angels" instead of vamps...)
I wasn't very taken by her fantasy THE SHAPE-CHANGER'S WIFE. It seemed so very obvious.
JENNA STARBORN is JANE EYRE in Space; slight but fun.
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Date: 2005-09-27 12:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-27 06:38 pm (UTC)In a medicinal sort of way.
Like it's something that should be good for me, whether or not I want to read it.
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Date: 2005-09-27 01:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-27 06:37 pm (UTC)I've been meaning to ask you to email me your mailing address. I'd like to send you a copy of MANUAL PRÁCTICO PARA VIAJAR EN OVNI, along with the English-language translation. Not expecting you to review it or anything, but I've been enjoying your YA SF reviews on your other blog, and wonder what you might make of this. (I'm in the weird position of creating books not in my native tongue, and this doesn't yet have an English-language edition, but my translation into English is both faithful and accurate, I can assure you!)
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Date: 2005-09-28 11:13 am (UTC)I'm going to delete your last post, though, since I've already written down the address and don't know that you want it floating about.
Pierce and Mievielle
Date: 2005-09-27 01:23 pm (UTC)Things on my to do list are books from her (The Circle opens) and also Books from Mievielle, because I've heard so much of him.
Re: Pierce and Mievielle
Date: 2005-09-27 06:40 pm (UTC):-)
Re: Pierce and Mievielle
Date: 2005-09-27 07:39 pm (UTC)BTW I like this kind of books....I think there are better and nicer than the Harry Potters.
*smile*
Re: Pierce and Mievielle
Date: 2005-09-27 07:46 pm (UTC)You should look for HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE.
Maybe also Patricia Wredes 4 dragon books.
And [Bad username or site: pamela dean @ livejournal.com]'s Hidden Country trilogy.
And you must read Patrice Kindl's lovely OWL IN LOVE!
And... :-)
Re: Pierce and Mievielle
Date: 2005-09-27 08:40 pm (UTC)I also know the Enchanted Forest Quadrology...but have threee of them on my to do List.
The other two authors I didn't know, but thats nothing I can't change.
*smile*
BTW: Thanx for the tips.
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Date: 2005-09-27 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-27 09:32 pm (UTC)