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[Kerry]

Shel, great loot! And congratulations on reaching your weight goal.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel, I love your kind of reward!!

I'm anxiously awaiting some deliveries... I spent some money at Alibris, Borders.com and Amazon.com and have over 30 books on their way to me.

For Christmas I got The Maid of the White Hands and The Lady of the Sea: The Third of the Tristan and Isolde Novels by Rosalind Miles and Tuck by Stephen R. Lawhead.

[Laurel]

Sheldon,

I may have to copy your idea! We all need some sort of motivation...

[Shel, Moderator]

Laurel wrote: "Sheldon,

I may have to copy your idea! We all need some sort of motivation..."

It's Michelle, actually ;) (don't worry about it, Kathi made the same mistake when we first 'met', LOL)

[Kelly]

Grats, Shel, and enjoy your books.

I've been so good already this year as far as NOT buying books. I've so many to read already. Going to try and make it a project to read more than I buy this year.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Shel wrote: "It's Michelle, actually ;) (don't worry about it, Kathi made the same mistake when we first 'met'..."

Can't believe you remember that!!

[Shel, Moderator]

LOL, don't worry about it! It's more commonly used as a male nickname, so it's understandable :)

[Laurel]

Sigh - foot in mouth...

But, if you're okay, I'm still going to steal your idea! Its so much harder to keep weight off in your 30's!

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

I just received a few exciting books in the mail:

- Brain Thief by Alexander Jablokov (I enjoyed his Carve the Sky in the past, plus some of his short stories)
- Shadowline by Glen Cook (an SF novel by the famous fantasy writer)
- Hespira: A Tale of Henghis Hapthorn by Matthew Hughes (I've only read the first Henghis Hapthorn novel so far - enjoyed it tremendously)

The TBR pile keeps on growing...

[Shel, Moderator]

Please do steal my idea! :) Any non-food incentive works, right?

[Laurel]

Exactly - every time I want to be bad, I simply start making a list of books I want to buy!

[Ron]

Stefan wrote: "I just received a few exciting books in the mail:

- Brain Thief by Alexander Jablokov (I enjoyed his Carve the Sky in the past, plus some of his short..."

Stefan, please let us know what you think of Brain Thief. I was very pleased when I 'discovered' Jablokov a couple years ago, and then found out he hadn't published in over a decade, so I'm intrigued to hear how his comeback novel strikes you.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

The first of my books arrived today--Jhegaala by Steven Brust. Looking forward to more boxes and packages...

[Staci]

I just got in a delivery from SFBC which included:

The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by JRR Tolkein (which I've never read yet)
Shadow Gate by Kate Elliott (book 2 in the Crossroads series)
The Cartamandua Legacy: the Lighthouse Duet by Carol Berg (an omnibus featuring our March fantasy Flesh and Spirit)
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology edited by Gordon Van Gelder

[Brian]

Picked up The Giverat our Waldenbooks which is going out of business.

[Bookbrow]

With a couple hundred books awaiting to be read I think I should take it easy on the purchasing, yet the call of that certain book to be purchased is still there. I found a used copy of John Christopher's The Death of Grass/No blade of grass, a rare edition in mint condition. It was expensive for a used book but so worth it as I really enjoy Christopher's disaster, "end of the world" stories. Nothing like finding a book that you have been looking for for some time.

[Ken]

Picked up The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Due to a glowing review from someone here

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

I just received Tails of Wonder and Imagination, an Ellen Datlow-edited anthology with only stories focusing on... cats! How's that for a themed collection? Looks interesting though.

[Kerry]

Just bought copies of The Dragon Keeper by Robin Hobb and The Iron King by Julie Kagawa.

I still have to catch up with the Robin Hobb books as I'm several behind, but it was a good price and it will wait until I'm ready to read it.

[Jeffrey]

I just bought a few books as I have been unsatisfied with my library books.

Picked up Peacekeeper by Laura E. Reeve, Grimspace by Ann Aguirre, which I have been meaning to buy for a while, Blue Diablo by Ann Aguirre and Boneshaker by Cherie Priest (which does violate my no vampire rule)

[Shel, Moderator]

Young Miles finally arrived in the mail today, along with Wild Hunt by Margaret Ronald (sequel to Spiral Hunt), and the last three Dorothy Dunnett books I needed to own her entire House of Niccolo series (I've only read the first three and am gleeful to have five more ahead of me). If any of you are into historical fiction when you take a break from SF/F I cannot recommend Dunnett highly enough.

[Ken]

I was walking past a bookstore and they had a some Sherlock Holmes books in the window. Went in and found this The Seven-percent Solution by Wrath of Khan director Nicholas Meyer

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books this week

Through Stone and Sea
El Borak and Other Desert Adventures
God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570-1215

[Shel, Moderator]

My in-laws got me a couple of books for my birthday: Cutting for Stone and The Women, both of which look interesting.

[Bookbrow]

This is a case of books not bought, well I was slow of the mark, a good used bookstore is moving locations and they are having a $1 per book blowout sale, I was certainly off the mark on this one by the time I got to the store the sci-fi bookshelf was totally gone. Instead of listing a cascade of finds I relay my tale of bad timing. sheese! Still lots of romance novels to be had though, ha ha.

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

Over the weekend I ordered, and should shortly receive:

Fables, vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
Just Another Judgement Day
The Eyre Affair
and Dark Lady's Chosen (Chronicles of the Necromancer, #4)

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Bookbrow wrote: "This is a case of books not bought, well I was slow of the mark, a good used bookstore is moving locations and they are having a $1 per book blowout sale, I was certainly off the mark on this one b..."

I can just feel your disappointment--I know I be bemoaning my bad timing, too!

[Brian]

Just arrived yesterday from Amazon.

Fulgrim

[Ken]

Picked up City of Night: A Novel of The House War

[Ken]

Out for a walk today and found this used The Lost Symbol. While I don't understand the Dan Brown craze I didnt mind the DaVinci Code all that much

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Ken wrote: "Out for a walk today and found this used The Lost Symbol. While I don't understand the Dan Brown craze I didnt mind the DaVinci Code all that much"

I thought The DaVinci Code was better, but The Lost Symbol was a fast read that kept my attention.

[Jeffrey]

Ken wrote: "Picked up City of Night: A Novel of The House War"

I bought it as well. Not sure why she has to spend yet another book explaining the back story when she covered the same ground in Hunter's Death in a lot less paper, but I like her books a lot

[colleen the convivial curmudgeon]

On Saturday I picked up Boneshaker. I'm really glad this won for April, because I'd been eyeing it for awhile and look forward to reading it.

[Jim]

About 2 weeks ago I bought "The New Space Opera 2"
and John Ringo's "Hell's Fire" Postleen war series.

I've got "The years Best Fantasy 2009" waiting to be picked up, probably Friday.

[Kerry]

My copy of The Last Stormlord by Glenda Larke came available for download last night, so I now have that on my phone waiting to be read. Today I picked up Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb and pre-ordered Shalador's Lady by Anne Bishop. The latter will be available for download tonight, so I don't have to wait long for it.

My TBR has gone insane, with three books picked up from the library on Saturday (Except the Queen, The Dead and the Gone and Jane Bites Back). As I'm reading a 700-pager right now, I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed by too many books.

[Kathi, Moderator & Book Lover]

Kerry wrote: "Today I picked up Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb..."

Are these books (the Eve Dallas "in Death" series) pretty entertaining? I've picked up some at used book stores but have yet to read them.

[Kerry]

Kathi wrote: "Kerry wrote: "Today I picked up Fantasy in Death by J.D. Robb..."

Are these books (the Eve Dallas "in Death" series) pretty entertaining? I've picked up some at used book stores but have yet to..."

Yes, I think they are. They fall into two parts, the developing relationship between the main protagonists (in a dealing with what life throws at them way more than a romance way) and the case in each book. Some books one is more to the fore, it some the other. The quality varies, but they are always a decent read, with some being brilliant.

It's best to read in order if you can for the development of the relationship, but each case stands alone in its own novel.

I like them.

[Sandra]

Oh man, my budget is shot since joining this site! And you guys are tempting me beyond belief! Someone mentioned Robin Hobb and I just discovered her and will read everything she's written eventually, I'm sure. I've also discovered George R. R. Martin and love his books, although I understand people have been waiting for #5 in his series for a long time.

I loved the Eve Dallas books. They are best read in order as Kerry said.

I'm reading Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet for one of the other groups here, although I'm a month behind.

But my recent purchases include:
Ship of Magic
The Last Stormlord
Go Fetch!
Undead and Unwed
Noah's Compass
Visions of Heat
This Alien Shore
Flesh and Spirit
The Cellist of Sarajevo
Angels' Blood
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

The last is a preorder.

Oh, and A Reliable Wife

Now, I can't buy any more until I've read all those! And I didn't even lose weight, lol.

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

I just received the 3 SF novels Joel Shepherd wrote before his current fantasy series: Crossover, Breakaway and Killswitch. Based on the strength of Sasha and Petrodor, I'm really looking forward to these.

[Bookbrow]

Sandra wrote: "Oh man, my budget is shot since joining this site! And you guys are tempting me beyond belief! Someone mentioned Robin Hobb and I just discovered her and will read everything she's written eventu..."

I totally hear you there, I am buying more books and also reading more, and really enjoying discovering the books that I might not have bought or read before.

I too am enjoying Robin Hobbs books. Um, I would like to read the RR Martin series but am following the Robert Jordan rule, don't buy until the series is done. Of course I broke that rule with reading the Dies The Fire series by S.M. Stirling which is not finished.

[Jeffrey]

Stefan wrote: "I just received the 3 SF novels Joel Shepherd wrote before his current fantasy series: Crossover, Breakaway and Killswitch. Based on th..."

I really loved the first one, which I found at my local library, so much that I had the next two books in the trilogy, which had been published in Australia, shipped from a small bookstore there so I could read them without waiting for them to be republished here.

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

That's encouraging! Have you read Sasha and sequels? I really liked it - not perfect, but very well done, intricate, and a great main character. I just read the sequel Petrodor (due out in the US this month) and am looking forward to Tracato, which Pyr will be re-releasing here in October.

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books this week
No genre but look ok

Showgirls, Teen Wolves, and Astro Zombies
A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey

I am a huge movie fan, I love them, nothing like sitting in a dark movie theater watching a movie on a 50 foot screen. I just wish I had more time to enjoy them

[Mike]

I finally reached that point where the potential choices represented by the B&N Christmas Gift card in my wallet had to be realized. Based on reviews here, I picked the Farseer Assassin's Apprentice and Mistborn Mistborn: The Final Empire series. Normally I only buy the first book in the series but once I started downhill, all the potential energy in that card had to be expended. Bought 'em all. Finished it off by picking up The Complete Hammer's Slammers Volume 2 Whew!

[Ken]

Picked up a couple of books I am DYING, DYING I tell ya, to read
Under Heaven
The Satanic Verses
Watch

But its summer, well summerish and I ride a bike and Hardcovers are heavy to lug around so I will wait till vacation in July.

[Stefan, Group Founder + Moderator (Retired)]

Mmm... don't know if I'd want to wait that long to read Under Heaven, Ken... It's worth the weight (pun intended).

[Ken]

I always want to postpone ready Kay's books because they are always so good.

[Janny]

B&N trip last night brought home:

Two experiments:
The Last Stormlord, because the author's bio was so fascinating, and Stefan's review convinced me to give it a try.

The Warded Man - which is another club's read for the month.

What struck me about these two: gads, is this the SAME COVER TREATMENT, or what? Even the detail on the figure's hood is the same!!!

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Stuck me, all over, that a LOT of new fantasy is using this same sorta half cloaked face figure treatment. :( More visual originality down the tubes...gosh I dislike sheep style fads.

I also preordered, for shipment instantly on release,

Under Heaven and C. J. Cherryh's Deceiver.

I also ordered the scrumptionsly new, to the moment research book, The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism, which will launch my plunge into a new endeavor - I've hosted a beekeeper's hive here for some time, and now it's time to get my feet wet - all supplies are ordered, and the bees get here in 2 weeks.

Now to put it all under lock and key until the current work schedule gets sorted out.

[Laurel]

Janny, you will be sharing a hobby with Neil Gaiman. At a reading, a few months back, he delighted hundreds with his tales of being a bee keeper. I have to say, it sounded like an amazing passtime. Good luck with it all!

[Simcha]

Janny wrote: "B&N trip last night brought home:

Two experiments:
The Last Stormlord, because the author's bio was so fascinating, and Stefan's review convinced me to give it a try.

[book:The War..."

I've been seeing a lot of book bloggers complain about this very thing, unoriginality in book covers and an overdose of hooded figures, though it doesn't really bother me. I just dislike when the cover had nothing to do with the contents of the book.