I am charmed by the idea of a Jane Eyre board book. I gather it's a counting primer rather than a baby-friendly version of the story, but that's okay. (All I can think now though is: One! ONE mad wife in the attic! Ahahahaha!)

(Via this post in genrereviews)

For Pratchett fans, "The Color of Magic" ebook with a bonus excerpt from "Snuff!" is currently on sale for 99 cents. This is the Kindle link, but it should be the same price at your favorite ebookstore.

Thanks to the recent $1.99 Georgette Heyer ebook sale, I've just been introduced to my new fictional boyfriend, Miles CalverleighHm, I realize I haven't been tracking what I've been reading lately. I suppose it's time to try to catch up, although I suppose I could just dump the titles in my Calibre library and get most of it in one fell swoop. ( Read more... )

I've got a reasonably large TBR pile going on right now, but that's never stopped me from wanting to add to it. What have you read this year that you think I absolutely need to add to that stack? Fiction, nonfiction, whatever. To get some sort of idea of what I've been reading, you can run through my LibraryThing profile. I admit it's been heavy ( Read more... )

So, I'm almost done mainlining Kage Baker's "The Company" series and will need something else shortly. I do have a bunch of stuff sitting around waiting to be read, but right about now I feel like a teenager looking at the full refrigerator ("There's nothing to eat!") or like a late-night viewer flipping through cable channels ("There's nothing on ( Read more... )

From the blog:

Bookslut needs to restock some columnists: if you're interested in covering cookbooks, poetry, science fiction, or comic books (or have another idea you're interested in) please e-mail Caroline with a letter of interest and writing samples.

Good mail week: my copy of the new Dresden Files installment Turn Coat was waiting for me on the doorstep when I got home, as was my copy of Ravens in the Library. The day before, my Big Brick o'Shakespeare showed up (from an Amazon seller, who stuffed the nice, new hardback book into a plain tyvek priority mail envelope with no padding at all and ( Read more... )

I'm feeling like I need to own this William Shakespeare Complete Works. (This stunning new edition, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, combines the very latest textual scholarship with illuminating insights into how Shakespeare's plays were and are performed. With notes on each page, photographs and thought-provoking essays, this is a ( Read more... )

For those of you who loved Cat Valente's "The Orphan's Tales" books, or--even better--those of you who haven't read them yet (I'm looking at you, chadu), she's presenting a podcast of her reading the entire thing. See her post for details.

Making a note of the stuff I've read since the last post, in no particular order:

1. Kushiel's Mercy, Jacqueline Cary
   
2. Halting State, Charles Stross
   
3. Your Government Failed You, Richard Clarke
   
4. Succubus in the City, Nina Harper
   
5. Steampunk, Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, ed.