Sometimes coincidence works very pleasantly.

A couple of weeks ago, I decided a wanted to reread Lifelode. I own the print book, but the text is just a bit small for my aging eyes, so I checked if there was an e-book version available for a reasonable price. There wasn't one listed, nor was it available from the library in e-book version. So I ( Read more... )

@rachelmanija reads children's books (as do I) and (unlike me) posts reviews of them on her DW. There's currently a bonanza in availability, because the Open Library at the Internet Archive is now the National Emergency Library, and it has removed all restrictions on numbers of people who can borrow any one book. So no waitlist; all books are ( Read more... )

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Any idea what the deal is with this bookIt's supposed to have come out sometime this spring -- there are various release dates: April 4, May 30, April 1 (which made me wonder if it was an April Fool's joke). It has only one review on Amazon, which is weird. It's not available as a Kindle book on Amazon, which is also weird. It's available in hard ( Read more... )

OBDisclaimer: I have met David several times over the years; I'd say we're friendly acquaintances. I've enjoyed many of his short stories; he has a nicely readable writing style, and I hope he keeps writing. It's just this book that didn't work for me.

I just finished reading Arabella of Mars, and I mentioned my issues with it to a few people. At ( Read more... )

For many years, I have chosen my bathroom book -- yes, there's always a bathroom book -- by selecting the next unread (or at least unremembered) book from my shelves of softcover fiction paperbacks, which are stored alphabetically by author. The rule I've chosen is that if I can't or don't want to finish the book, it goes on the "take to used ( Read more... )

Ben Aaronovitch's latest Rivers of London book, The Hanging Tree, just came out -- in England. The eBook is available for sale at amazon.co.uk.

But for people with US IP addresses, it's not available until January at amazon.com.

Bah.

Want it now.

Stanza, my beloved but orphaned ePub reader, no longer works properly after the recent iOS 10 update on my iPhone and iPad. Instead of going from page to page as it ought, it only displays the first page of each chapter ( Read more... )

First of all, I'm not talking about The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder, which is my favorite of the Little House books. This is The Long Winter by John Christopher.

papersky talks about John Christopher as being one of the masters of the "cozy catastrophe," which I guess is like a cozy -- or should that cosy, since it's British? -- mystery, only with ( Read more... )

In James Nicoll's review of Niven and Pournelle's Mote in God's Eye, he posted a link to a Heinlein sampler of the Virginia Editions, which contains the revision letter Heinlein write to Niven and Pournelle. It runs 16 pages in printed form, and is fascinating. I can see Heinlein's fingerprints all over the final version, especially in the excising ( Read more... )