FridayReads...
Wow!!! Friday already??!? All those appointment sure do eat up the time.
Nothing officially for review this week. Will probably be slow for those for a few weeks, the next big batch gets awarded around the first of the month then it can take anywhere from 2-8 weeks to *get* the books. Supposedly have one in the pipeline, but it's getting to the point where I have to mark it 'Not Delivered'.
Sandman Slim: A Novel by Richard Kadrey
Eos (2009), Hardcover, 400 pages
Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel by Richard Kadrey
Harper Voyager (2010), Hardcover, 448 pages
A happy surprise! The Sandman Slim books were loaned to us by Pol who insisted they were something we wanted to read -- he was right. (L has read all three, I just finished the second last night) A refreshingly different look at Hell, Heaven, Demons and Angels and armies of each and poor, small, Earth in between. There are things on Earth that neither Host is quite willing to take on. Human deviousness, adaptability and unpredictability can handle the shambling Undead (you knew there had to be zombies here somewhere, didn't you?) that become the immediate threat to LA. The Demi-Dieties go off to deal with their own challenges; a rogue Angel in The Department of Homeland Security who thinks she's ready to take over the Throne of Heaven, and Lucifer back to Hell to put out a few fires and quell a rebellion. This leaves our boy Slim in LA with a newly unemployed Gypsy zombie-killer, a Jade who's trying to stay on the wagon from soul-sucking, a man who might be as old as time, and a (literal) talking head. And a new threat, one that virtually no one left alive knows about...
Guess what the next book on deck is...
Ongoing projects;
A handbook of ornament with 300 plates containing about 3,000 illustrations of the elements, and the application of decoration to objects, by Franz Sales Meyer
Architectural book Pub. Co., inc (1982), Edition: 4th, Oversize
Paperback Binding, 542 pages
The Fantasy Illustrator's Technique Book (Quarto Book) by Gary A. Lippincott
Barron's Educational Series (2007), Paperback, 128 pages
Plus more ADA Design, VA, DAV and Medicare documents than should ever be on a single desk at one time.
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Nothing officially for review this week. Will probably be slow for those for a few weeks, the next big batch gets awarded around the first of the month then it can take anywhere from 2-8 weeks to *get* the books. Supposedly have one in the pipeline, but it's getting to the point where I have to mark it 'Not Delivered'.
Sandman Slim: A Novel by Richard Kadrey
Eos (2009), Hardcover, 400 pages
Kill the Dead: A Sandman Slim Novel by Richard Kadrey
Harper Voyager (2010), Hardcover, 448 pages
A happy surprise! The Sandman Slim books were loaned to us by Pol who insisted they were something we wanted to read -- he was right. (L has read all three, I just finished the second last night) A refreshingly different look at Hell, Heaven, Demons and Angels and armies of each and poor, small, Earth in between. There are things on Earth that neither Host is quite willing to take on. Human deviousness, adaptability and unpredictability can handle the shambling Undead (you knew there had to be zombies here somewhere, didn't you?) that become the immediate threat to LA. The Demi-Dieties go off to deal with their own challenges; a rogue Angel in The Department of Homeland Security who thinks she's ready to take over the Throne of Heaven, and Lucifer back to Hell to put out a few fires and quell a rebellion. This leaves our boy Slim in LA with a newly unemployed Gypsy zombie-killer, a Jade who's trying to stay on the wagon from soul-sucking, a man who might be as old as time, and a (literal) talking head. And a new threat, one that virtually no one left alive knows about...
Guess what the next book on deck is...
Ongoing projects;
A handbook of ornament with 300 plates containing about 3,000 illustrations of the elements, and the application of decoration to objects, by Franz Sales Meyer
Architectural book Pub. Co., inc (1982), Edition: 4th, Oversize
Paperback Binding, 542 pages
The Fantasy Illustrator's Technique Book (Quarto Book) by Gary A. Lippincott
Barron's Educational Series (2007), Paperback, 128 pages
Plus more ADA Design, VA, DAV and Medicare documents than should ever be on a single desk at one time.
This entry was originally posted at http://somewhatbent.dreamwidth.org/446787.html. Please comment there using OpenID.