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New goodies!
Posted on: November 7, 2018
I love buying books. If I read an author and fall in love with their work, I try to buy more of their books. I can’t seem to leave a bookstore without purchasing a cookbook.
I’ve been waiting for Seth Dickinson’s next Baru Cormorant book since, oh, I dunno, about 5 seconds after finishing the first book in the series, The Traitor Baru Cormorant. I was so excited for the next book in the series, The Monster Baru Cormorant, that I reread the first one, managed to purchase a copy of the new book the day it came out, and started reading it that night. It’s super dense, I’m madly in love with all the economics talk (but wait, i thought I hated economics?), and I really miss Tain Hu. Might have to reread the first book just to be able to spend some more time with her. I’m about half way through The Monster Baru Cormorant, and am pretty sure I’ll need to read it twice if I’m gonna write a coherent review.
About five minutes after I finished Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee, I ordered a copy of Lee’s short story collection, Conservation of Shadows. And I finally, finally, after everyone I know has said how amazing this series is, bought a copy of Vicious by V.E. Schwab. the problem is going to be deciding which one of these to read first!!! The Lee looks enjoyable because it’s short stories, i can read one or two before bed or in the morning before I leave for work. If Vicious turns out to be an emotional roller coaster, I might need to wait a few weeks to read it, as I’m still recovering from Revenant Gun, and a little voice is telling me that Baru is going to take me on another emotional roller coaster!
Even if I don’t get to either of these books any time soon, I like that they are in my house.
And because I apparently can’t leave a bookstore without buying a cookbook, lets make some Gyudon. and there’s a whole chapter on Japanese Curry! Curry Rice FTW!
You like new books? Me too!
Posted on: August 18, 2018
Not much to say except YAY new books!
Also, sorry the blog has been quiet lately. Lots of day jobbery happening (don’t worry all good stuff, just a LOT of it), not enough reading/writing happening. such is life.
so let’s take a few minutes to celebrate some new goodies!
Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett drops on Aug 21st. I’ll have a review up in a few days, so until then all I can say is holy shit is this book good! And well, I wrote a very Andrea review. You’ll see.
Some lovely ARCs that recently arrived from Tachyon:
How to Fracture a Fairy Tale is approximately a gazillion fairy tale retellings from the master of story, Jane Yolen. I am not entire sure what Lavie Tidhar’s Unholy Land is, but it looks very interesting.
And believe it or not I’ve been trying to read some non-fiction lately too!
So far, How to Create a Mind is over my head, but what I am understanding out of it, I am enjoying. the mistake I’m making is trying to read this entire book at once. it is short, but very, very dense. I need to take it one chapter at a time, and reread the chapter over and over again until I understand it.
Never Split the Difference is the easiest business book I’ve ever read. Chris Voss was the FBI’s lead hostage negotiator. Take those skills, and negotiate at work! with your kids! with your kids teachers! the book mostly talks about empathy and active listening. Surprisingly compelling read.
what have you been reading lately?
New Books I’m Excited About!
Posted on: May 6, 2018
well, new to me! Some of these are hot off the presses, some of them are reprints, one is so new I can’t talk about it until release day, and I’m surrounded by so many things I want to read RIGHTNOW that I don’t know where to start!
Hot off the presses and imma talk all about it:
The May issue of Apex Magazine is out, and it is a doozy! Garbage photo I know, but this jam packed TOC includes fiction from Nisi Shawl, Matthew Sanborn Smith, Rich Larson, Cherie Priest, and more. Lots of ghost stories, horror stories, and this one from Larson – you will never use social media again. Fantastic interview with the cover artist, who also did the beautiful cover art for Winterglass by Benjanun Sriduangkaew. So, anyway, read this magazine.
Yes, yes! Apex is currently available in print! A reader can purchase a print version of the magazine for (what in my opinion is) a reasonable price, but for a publisher, print is expensive. The magazine needs a certain number of print subscribers to continue producing a print magazine. And we’re not there yet. If you like the idea of a print mag, join me in putting your money where your mouth is.
ok, stepping off soapbox.
Lotus Blue was recommended to me by my friend Alex, she and I need to swap book rec’s more often! And of course I had to get a copy of Beholder’s Eye after this happened! This is an older series that was recently reprinted.
I’m also reading a new release that comes out on Tuesday. Can’t talk about it because my friendly bookseller probably wasn’t supposed to sell it to me early. But, nothing says I can’t publish a review of it on Tuesday or Wednesday!
Is the suspense killing you?
What goodies have you recently acquired?
Hello friends! Yesterday the “Esen the Web Shifter” party began with Who and What Esen Is, the Big Idea behind her, how much fun Julie Czerneda had with writing the Web Shifter trilogy (and oh yeah, a big huge give away for the entire trilogy!), and more!
Today, I can finally talk about the gorgeous new cover art for Julie Czerneda’s newest Esen e-novella The Only Thing to Fear, and her forthcoming hardback Web Shifter novel that begins a new series, Search Image! I’m too excited to talk straight, so I’m just going to let Julie Czerneda take over and talk about the most Esen cover art ever, Phil the bust, nervous diplomats, and most exciting of all, a brand new Esen novel that starts a brand new series! oh, there’s another give away too!!
Esen’s Here!
By Julie Czerneda
Cover Art by Matthew Stawicki, novella release date: Sept 4th
Esen has been featured on every cover, but until now, not as herself. Behold Esen-alit-Quar the Web-being in all her blue blobness, courtesy the talents of Matthew Stawicki!
My information for Matt was, to be honest, sparse. A blue teardrop. Not anthropomorphic. No cheerful chubby belly. No arms, face, toes, nose . . . he did it! Esen’s perfect. I love this cover. I love how she’s there, taking it all in — in this form, her senses aren’t ours. They are potent. You’ll see.
What’s inside The Only Thing to Fear? A special e-novella from DAW Books that resumes Esen’s adventures shortly after the end of Hidden in Sight. (You really should read that one, if you want to get the whole OOMPH, plus meet Busfish—and Changing Vision, because there are Ganthor in an art gallery. I can’t help myself, I love them all and want you to as well.)
In this e-novella, you meet a new character, Evan Gooseberry, diplomat-in-training. Evan’s working through his fear of almost everything, determined to make the universe a better place, but why do aliens have to have SPIDERLEGS? Poor Evan faces a crisis in his first posting and only Esen-alit-Quar can help save the day. During street theatre and glittersweat.
But wait . . . there’s more!
I’m delighted to share with you the spectacular cover for Esen’s new novel, new series, and first hardcover! Toss the Glitter!
Bucket of New Stuff
Posted on: April 7, 2018
In no particular order, here are the new books that have come into my house recently. (and this doesn’t even the count the ratty used paperbacks I’ve purchased, the e-book of Mythic Delirium I bought, and other books that friends have let me borrow). My love for books is happily out of control!
What looks good to you?
As they say, if you can read a Steven Brust book, do it. Witty characters, meaningful snark, well crafted mysteries, subtle clues and references. I zipped through his newest, Good Guys, last weekend. Compulsively readable, I need to read it again before I write a review, as I’m sure I missed a ton of good stuff.
You ever wonder what’s really happening when your tummy rumbles? Want to know more than you ever wanted about poop? If you answered Yes to at least one of those questions, Gut is for you. I was looking for a paperback copy of The Secret Language of Trees, and came across Gut instead (yeah, B&N has zero organization to their science books). I like knowing how my insides work.
Latchkey by Nicole Kornher-Stace comes out in July, it is the sequel to her acclaimed novel Archivist Wasp. I’m a jerk, and never read the first book, but here’s hoping I can just dive right into the new one!
I think I kinda freaked out Jerry Gordon at ConFusion when he said he’d written a novel about David Koresh and I was like “who in their right mind would do that, holy shit tell me more”. I’ve been waiting for this ARC to show up in my mailbox ever since, and I started reading it, oh, about 5 minutes after I ripped it out of the envelope. Breaking the World releases on April 19th, we’ll see if I can get the book finished and a review up before then.
In that same envelope with Breaking the World was the April issue of Apex Magazine. Yes, this is available in print now! Subscriptions are reasonable, and it is hella bragging rights for me to walk around with a magazine that I am in. so, yeah. the April issue has an essay from Jerry Gordon, talking all about the behind-the-scenes of Breaking the World. Guess I better come up with some way better interview questions for him. . .
Gods, Monsters and the Lucky Peach by Kelly Robson is for my local scifi bookclub. I’m about halfway through and kinda losing the thread. I dig the main character, but am having trouble getting invested in the plot. I think too much is being jammed into too few pages? Anyone read this? What did you think?
The Freeze-Frame Revolution comes out in June, and I meant to just read the first chapter or two to get a taste of it, and two days later I was done and wanted to read it again. Review is already in the works, but I figure I better wait till just a little closer to June before posting. Short version of the review? this book is very, very good. Way too much crammed into too few pages, and it works beautifully. because, you know, Peter Watts.
Rock Manning Goes for Broke by Charlie Jane Anders doesn’t come out till September, so I guess it should sit on the TBR pile (my entire living room is turning into a TBR pile) until the summer. Looks like a fast fun read, maybe sort of Cory Doctorow-ish?
One of Us comes out in July, I’m not sure what exactly this is, but the early critical reviews are basically “this book will break you”.
Apocalypse Nyx comes out in July, so once I finish all the stuff I’ve been dipping my toes into, I better get this one read. June will be hear before you know it!
Phoresis by Greg Egan comes out at the end of April. It’s Egan, so that means it is dense and hard scifi. I’ve dipped my toes into this one, read maybe half of it. There is lots of “let’s science the shit out of this”. What I really need to do is start it again, from the beginning, and take notes. Because, Egan.
Silver Spoon was a happy surprise at B&N. I loved the anime of this, and really, anything by Arakawa is going to be fantastic. I’m interested to see how faithful the anime was to her original manga. The story follows a city boy who doesn’t know what he wants to do for college, so he ends up at an agricultural school, and finds himself surrounded by new friends who grew up on farms. It’s a nice coming of age story.
well? what looks good to you? if these books were floating around your house, what would you read first?
Hey friends, it’s been a while. I’ve been reading, I’ve been doing, just haven’t been doing anything worthwhile on the interwebs. While all ya’ll were out getting your ten thousand steps and playing PokemonGo, I’ve been sitting on my butt playing Candy Crush and reading dumb stuff on Buzzfeed.
But, I did get some reading done, and got some beautiful new books.
I finished reading Necessary Evil, by Ian Tregillis, and wow, what a punch to the guts! This book, what the characters go through, just wow. when I do get around to writing the review, be warned, there will be plenty of spoilers. So much crazy stuff happens at the end of book 2, and this 3rd book in the series is such an emotional juggernaut that I’m gonna have spoil stuff that happens in book 2 and spoil some stuff that happens in book 3 to write a halfway decent review. If you’ve read the entire trilogy, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
I was head over heels for N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season last year, so I’m super excited to read the next book in this series (duology? trilogy? open ended? I have no idea), The Obelisk Gate. I loved the worldbuilding of the first book, I loved the “twist” about the main characters, although it wasn’t much of a twist, maybe more a creative way of presenting information? I liked the little boy who ate rocks. As soon as I’m done with current read, this is mostly likely the book I’ll pick up next.
In the theme of super chilled out discussions for the rest of the year, here’s an easy one:
What book releases are you most looking forward to in 2014?
and because I love to tease you, here are some links to what’s coming soon!
Coming soon from Angry Robot.
Orbit Books fall2013/Winter2014 cover image gallery
Coming soon from Pyr Books
Coming soon from Tor
A very extensive Forthcoming Books list from Locus
have more links to other publisher’s coming soon lists? Link up in the comments and I’ll add to the list up here.
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