Reading Wednesday

[oyceter]

What I've just read: Forgot to do this last week, so more books this week! That, and LCD-screen-induced nausea forcing me to ditch my usual time-wasting computer games. I just finished Martha Wells' The Fall of Ile-Rien trilogy, and generally had fun, though I wish there were more women in the narrative aside from Tremaine. Also got and read Karen Lord's new book, The Best of All Possible Worlds, and generally liked the anthropological stuff and the team stuff, but wanted more in terms of resolution with those. Wasn't particularly into the romance as such, but I've been having that reaction to everything, so I think it's less the book and more me not being in any sort of romance mood.

What I'm reading now: I don't know! Finished the last Ile-Rien book last night and didn't really know what to pick up next.

What I'm reading next: More not knowing! I am tempted to read Death of the Necromancer due to all the trilogy's bits and pieces about Nicholas Valiarde and his compatriots, but I don't have it on hand. Also thinking about a reread of God Stalk, since I bounced off it the first time 'round, or starting the Ben Aaronovitch books.

Comments

[roadrunnertwice]

DotN came out as a $3 ebook, like, yesterday.

[estara]

gah, beaten by two minutes! ^^

[oyceter]

... awesome! I almost feel like I made the universe do something ;).

[estara]

Martha Wells just THIS WEEK released Death of the Necromancer in ebook, just FYI! http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17378683-the-death-of-the-necromancer - It's 2.99, I believe, at Amazon. I bought my copy at Kobo - as I read .epub.

Which e-reader have you got?

[oyceter]

SWEET!

I have the Nook Touch, though I use Calibre to manage my collection.

[thistleingrey]

Charmingly, the lj crosspost shows that lj does not understand markdown. (Charmingly, dw supports markdown! I don't use it much, but it's good to know about.)

[oyceter]

Heh, I probably should have checked for cross compatibility on LJ. Oh well, I basically neglect it anyway.

I didn't know about markdown until a week or so ago! I don't know a lot of it, but being able to use asterisks for italics and bolding is so much easier for me than HTML tags.

[oracne]

Read Aaronovitch! Also Wells.

[kate_nepveu]

Ben Aaronovitch!

[yasaman]

The Aaronvitch books are tremendous fun, I vote for those! They feature the most likeable and compulsively readable first person POV narrator I've read in a long while.

[(Anonymous)]

You should definitely read Death of the Necromancer. Not only is it awesome (like all of Wells' books) but a pipe burst in her house a few days ago and she could really use the book sales. ;)

By the way, with something of a spoiler alert, if you want to try one of her books with less romantic angle to it, try City of Bones.

[oyceter]

I think I read City of Bones a few years ago, but don't have much memory of it at all. Also, thanks for the heads up re: Death of the Necromancer.