Some readamakating
Useless post about what I'm reading. Useless because, hello, I am a very slow reader. Also, I admit that the primary time I get to read books is in the bathroom.
Currently making my way through Pale Demon by Kim Harrison. Yes, I am totally anti-thisgenre, but I have two exceptions and Kim Harrison is one of them. (Harry Connolly is the other exception, but since there aren't any more Twenty Palaces books forthcoming anytime soon, I'm effectively at one author in the genre.) I like Harrison's stuff (and Connolly's) because of low schmoop-factor.* I'm irked that I'm sensing some schmoop here in PD, but it is as yet just potential schmoop, and besides, it's not overwhelming the actual, you know, story. She's had moments of potential schmoop before and dodged them.
Note: Excessive schmoop was why I stopped reading Laurell Hamilton.
Second note: Other people are entitled to enjoy schmoop, with my happy blessings. Whatever gets you through the day, folks. It's just not my thing.
Then the next book is coming out in MMPB next month, so I need to catch up anyway.
Jim Hines's Libriomancer is coming out any day now, so that's got to get on the list, as I'm very excited to read that one.
And then yesterday I bought the trade PPB version of Wise Man's Fear by Pat Rothfuss. I don't feel too bad letting that one get displaced in the list by other books, because (a) it's been a while since I read the first one, so my "must know what happens next!" drive is on low anyway, and (b) it's not as if the next book is coming out anytime soon, so I don't need to catch up or keep ahead.
Also, massive freaking book! 1000 pages at trade size, and the type, while airy, isn't exactly large. My heft-guess is that it exceeds 1kg...and hey, Amazon says its a ship weight of 2.6 lbs, so there you go.
Now, the obnoxious part is that I paid full cover price for it in the store, instead of getting it for 40% off online. And I am annoyed by this. Which is kind of not-good. Must introspect a bit.
*schmoop: overtly romantic character musings. I like romance in a story--real people do have romantic feelings, after all--but I don't like overmuch attention paid to it when it distracts from, stops, or interrupts the story. Standard schmoop is when a character pauses to reflect on the appearance of another character in a sexually romantic way. Some schmoop is fine. It's a balance thing. My personal preference is significantly lower than that of, for instance, a typical romance novel reader.