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[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Very nice

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

I didn't buy these books but they were bought for me for Christmas and I'm pretty excited about it:

Daughter of the Blood
Raven's Shadow
Parasite
The Shotgun Arcana
Shattered

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

I really liked Six Gun Tarot, I haven't gotten to Shotgun Arcana. Sounds like you did well, Hybrid.

[Andrew]

Shotgun Arcana was great, even better than the first one--and I really liked the first one a lot! :)

[Paul]

Got three books for Christmas:
A Hat Full of Sky
I Shall Wear Midnight
The Compleat Discworld Atlas

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

I've yet to get home and check my mail to see if my secret Santa book has arrived.

My wife got me the book Horns by Joe Hill for Xmas. A little bit outside of my usual but sounds interesting. She has wanted to watch the movie and likes when if read the book first before the movie/TV show so that I can answer any questions she has about it :p. It will be my first read of the new year.

[Bana AZ]

Hyperion by Dan Simmons (at less than a dollar!) and The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson. They were my Xmas gifts to myself. I plan to read both of them within 2016, but who knows what's really gonna happen.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I have the Discworld Atlas . looks great so I'll get stuck in at some point.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Bossypants for Christmas as I specifically asked for it, but no other books. Family have long since given up buying me books because they don't know if I already have it/have read it, etc. I don't mind - instead I just get money so I can choose my own books ;)

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

Rinn wrote: "Bossypants for Christmas as I specifically asked for it, but no other books. Family have long since given up buying me books because they don't know if I already have it/have read it..."

I usually get gift cards to book stores too, but this year my husband told me to give him a list of 10 books I wanted. So I gave him a list of 20 instead so I didn't know what I was getting. ;)

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Hope you got the twenty

[Kimonawhim]

I got some books as gifts for Christmas, but I also treated myself ;P

Got this beauty from two friends of mine, and I am forever thankful. The illustrated edition is amazing!

This pretty version of the second Harry Potter was gifted to me by my sister, I never read HP in English, but I've been planning to for a while now. I was too young for that back when ;) It was pure coincidence that she got me the second one, first one was sold out, but now it's perfect.

These two pretty's by my fantastic secret santa! Love them!

By a friend of mine, it's good to be gifted something I'm not that familiar with, but Neil Gaiman is always nice!

Also by a friend, a secondhand copy as an extra gift, again something I'm not that familiar with!

And then I'm incredibly guilty of buying myself some gifts..
(Sorry for the long post, it's hard to contain my excitement!)

[Shawnie]

All of these books look great! It's so hard to choose what to read.

Lancer, I read Horns this year and really enjoyed it.

I'll do "bookshelf clearance" through the end of March, which means that I'll TRY not to buy new books until April 1 (unless it's a BotM) and read only what's currently on my bookshelves and ereaders. :)

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Sounds like a good idea Shawnie. I might try something similar but exclude series I'm waiting on the next part

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

Agreed, Paul do you know any release dates? I don't really follow them to closely. It's wonderful that I have this group to remind me of these things!

[Veronica]

The last book I bought was Zero World.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I will do a big update early next week on this years releases. I'm quite excited by a few. Just need Pat Rothfuss and GRRM to get sorted to make it a huge year

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

Doors of Stone would definitely make it a big year.

[Audrey, Queen of the Potato People]

Shawnie wrote: "All of these books look great! It's so hard to choose what to read.

Lancer, I read Horns this year and really enjoyed it.

I'll do "bookshelf clearance" through the end of March, which means that ..."

I think I need to take a whole year to read what's on my shelf, including Kindle. I'll let myself get audiobooks from the library, though.

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Picked up How to Build a Girl and a travel book about the US that I've already forgotten the name of and am too lazy to go downstairs and find out the title... :P

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

First book purchases of the New Year!

Heir to the Shadows
Written in Red

New to Anne Bishop but so far I'm loving her.

[Kimonawhim]

Oh nice! Its a series I might want to get into myself, but I'm still not sure. Let me know if you recommend it or not! :-)

[Michael]

Audrey wrote: "I bought the newly released The Death of Dulgath (Michael J. Sullivan's latest), and it has arrived all autographed, so I'm saving it for Christmas along with the sheet music for Holst's The Planets Suite, which I am also super excited about.."

Hey Audrey, I hope The Death of Dulgath, in some small way, made your Christmas a good one. Oh, and I do love Holtst. - great stuff!

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

Kimberley wrote: "Oh nice! Its a series I might want to get into myself, but I'm still not sure. Let me know if you recommend it or not! :-)"

The Black Jewels series is very dark, Kimberly. I love grim-darks though. So I guess it entirely depends on your preferences.

The other series I haven't started yet so I'll have to get back to you on that one. :)

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Damn you Michael . Went book whopping and found all the Chronicles and Revelations books bar the last for 5 euro each. My new year freeze on buying lasted 1day

[Kirsty, Jedi Master]

Ha Paul! Must be a record

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Three of Michaels books plus three more . I'm weak .

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

First book trip of the year and bought -
Michaels books Rise of Empire
Heir of Novron
The Crown Tower
And from other authors -
Lagoon
Fool's Assassin
And The Chessmen of Mars

[Paul]

And probably skint now too...

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Actually wasnt too bad . Less than 30 euro the lot.The John Carter was second hand 1930 edition but the rest were new but on special. Even the Robin Hobb as a hardback was 6 quid.

[Whitney]

Two audiobooks as audible is doing a small buy one get one deal.

very limited selection so...

Prince of Fools
Skinwalker

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

Haven't bought any yet hut did receive 100$ worth of gift cards so will be going on a bit of a spree soon

[Paul]

Sounds perfect Lancer

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

My dilemma comes from the decision to either use them slowly to pick up new releases or just use it all at once to fill in series I know I want to continue but have yet to pick up the sequels and series I want to start. I am really interested in starting Peter V. Brett's Demon Cycle, Django Wexler's series, and Sebastian De Castell's Greatcoats. So it would be an opportunity to snap them all up and start a good to read pile eight off the bat

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

$100 worth? Amazing! Also I can't remember if you like ebooks but the entire Demon Cycle series has been really cheap for Kindle lately.

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

I do have an ereader but it is a kobo so not sure if that makes a difference, and I do have The Warded Man on it already hut have been considering getting the physical copy because I prefer them. But if Kindle and Kobo are the same thing I have no issues getting them for cheap :)

[Wayland, Ernest Scribbler]

I've done some work with Kobo. They have a pretty extensive collection.

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

All of those series you mentioned Lancer are on my list too. So if you get to them before I do I expect a full report! :P

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I've read the two Greatcoats books and highly recommend them. One of our quieter members is actually tuckerised in the second one in quite a big role. Plus De Castell is Canadian so you should support him Lancer.

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

MA'AM, YES MAAM!

Paul they are definitely near the top of my list. I was hoping to get to them in 2015 but ran out of time, so they will be early this year :)

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Good man. I'll check on you though :-)

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

I tried to buy the first Greatcoats book when I bought those other ones the other day. But the book store was completely wiped out in the fantasy section.
I tried to get King of Thorns but there absolutely no Mark Lawrence books left. (Obviously a good thing much to my dismay.)
I also tried to get Golden Son to finally catch up before Morningstar is released but that seems to elude bookstores everywhere here. I have just one left to try and I have a gift card there so fingers crossed.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

Yeah I tried to get Emperor of Thorns but there was big empty gap where Marks books should be. I have lovely ltd editions of the two Greatcoat books. I love the cover art

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

Catching up on Mark Lawrence's stuff is also on my list for this year. Would likely have to re-read Prince of Thorns first though as it was quite a while ago, unless anyone thinks I could continue on and be OK. I do remember some of Prince of Thorns but it's been awhile.

[Paul, A wanderer in unknown realms]

I'd say you'd be fine. You just have to remember Jorg is a complete bastard and your grand.
Also worth looking at his other series, Prince of Fools is really good with quite a different protagonist .

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

I thought that it was a continuation of the original trilogy so I'm assuming I was mistaken.

Would you say to read the Thorns trilogy first?

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

If you want to continue with a series but can't remember what happened in the first book(s), The Recaptains is a great site, and a couple of our members are actually 'Recaptains'. Whilst it's predominantly YA titles, there's some SFF on there too. There must be a similar site (or even some Wiki articles might have detailed plots) for SFF books. I often do this when I don't feel like re-reading the first book.

[Cupcakes & Machetes, Hybrid Creature]

Finally found Golden Son at that bookstore. I hated that bookstore but I finally got what I was looking for. I'm sure it will be worth the trouble. :)

[Rinn, (Retired mod) Captain of the SSV Normandy]

Aaaah, it will! :D So glad you found it!

[Lancer, Warden of the Slums]

Happy you found it Hybrid. I completely forgot earlier that I was going to say I would mail it to you to borrow if you couldn't find it. I am probably one of the closest to you and it would be no skin off my back. But you found it so that is much easier :p