Books, wonderful books
Tor is giving away e-books for free! (until Sunday, at some time in some timezone)
I've looked through the list and saved several, though I don't know when I'll have the time to read them. But I have been hving fun looking up reviews of all of them to figure out which sound good. Book reviews can be quite funny, sometimes. One of Tor's freebies is described as being a "combination period bodice-ripper and contemporary medical thriller". Not entirely sure how that would work, aside from time travel. Don't particularly care to find out.
In other reading news, I've finished The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. Very amusing stories, overall a wonderful little book.
Lovers of both Susanna Clarke and Neil Gaiman's works (yes, ittykat, this is meant for you) will be interested to hear that one of the stories ('The Duke of Wellington Misplaces his Horse') is set in and around the village of Wall. Yes, that is Stardust's Wall. And as the rest of the stories are set in the world of Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, it amuses me to think of this story as a crossover :)
I've started North and South, by Mrs Gaskell (as the cover of nupatinga's copy, which I'm borrowing, reads). I loved the film miniseries, and I'm already loving the book. However, it wants me to read it straight through all at once, which I cannot do, and I'm afraid the reading will suffer for it.
I've looked through the list and saved several, though I don't know when I'll have the time to read them. But I have been hving fun looking up reviews of all of them to figure out which sound good. Book reviews can be quite funny, sometimes. One of Tor's freebies is described as being a "combination period bodice-ripper and contemporary medical thriller". Not entirely sure how that would work, aside from time travel. Don't particularly care to find out.
In other reading news, I've finished The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke. Very amusing stories, overall a wonderful little book.
Lovers of both Susanna Clarke and Neil Gaiman's works (yes, ittykat, this is meant for you) will be interested to hear that one of the stories ('The Duke of Wellington Misplaces his Horse') is set in and around the village of Wall. Yes, that is Stardust's Wall. And as the rest of the stories are set in the world of Jonathon Strange and Mr Norrell, it amuses me to think of this story as a crossover :)
I've started North and South, by Mrs Gaskell (as the cover of nupatinga's copy, which I'm borrowing, reads). I loved the film miniseries, and I'm already loving the book. However, it wants me to read it straight through all at once, which I cannot do, and I'm afraid the reading will suffer for it.