i know we got it good / but they got it made / and the grass is growing greener each day
Okay, normally I don't book squee here, but I think my new rule is all fandom stuff goes here, book squee included. So. Yes. I'm on a website called PaperBackSwap, where you trade books. I had sent out five books, so I had five credits. I just blew them all, even though I'd promised myself I'd save one in case another copy of Coraline came up.
What did I spend them on, you might ask? Books two and three of The Secret Circle (I got book one for Christmas, thanks to a wishlist on a public community) and all three of the books in the The Tamuli trilogy by David Eddings in hardcover.I already have the prequel trilogy in hardcover, now I have the second one. ::dances:: I mean, of just those three books I've gone through at least three copies of each book in the last sixteen years. Hardcovers last longer, and I got all of them. I don't even care if they're missing slipcovers, I won't destroy them with my constant re-reading. ::nods::
If anyone's ever wondered who I take my writing inspiration from, it's David and Leigh Eddings. I mean, I have all of The Belgariad and The Mallorean and the two prequels and The Rivan Codex and The Elenium and (at least until the hardcovers arrive) the last book in The Tamuli. That's seventeen books by the same author, FYI, out of nineteen (and in storage I have his urban fantasy novel The Losers). While I may have more Jayne Ann Krentz novels (like, thirty to forty, something like that), I don't write much like her. I write more like the Eddings's. And those novels are so immersive and yet so sanppy in tone and fun. He wields sarcasm like a tool, and wit like a boxing glove, and dear God if my fantasy novel even comes remotely close to an Eddings novel I will die of happiness.
If you want a good set of fantasy novels, I recommend starting with The Elenium trilogy, and if you like it follow it up with The Tamuli trilogy. Those were done after The Belgariad and The Mallorean but those were the first ones I read, and I consider them a gateway drug. It was the only worthwhile gift my ex-stepmother ever gave me, those six novels. But yeah, while some think The Belgariad and The Mallorean are better I can guarantee you'll enjoy the hell out of the adventures of Sir Sparhawk and company, and then you can go read the twelve novels that make up Belgarion's saga.
Yeah. I'm in geek heaven right now. ::sings:: I got my series, I got it in hardcover. So once I finish rereading my paperback copy of The Hidden City I can put that book up on my donate list. Yay!
What did I spend them on, you might ask? Books two and three of The Secret Circle (I got book one for Christmas, thanks to a wishlist on a public community) and all three of the books in the The Tamuli trilogy by David Eddings in hardcover.I already have the prequel trilogy in hardcover, now I have the second one. ::dances:: I mean, of just those three books I've gone through at least three copies of each book in the last sixteen years. Hardcovers last longer, and I got all of them. I don't even care if they're missing slipcovers, I won't destroy them with my constant re-reading. ::nods::
If anyone's ever wondered who I take my writing inspiration from, it's David and Leigh Eddings. I mean, I have all of The Belgariad and The Mallorean and the two prequels and The Rivan Codex and The Elenium and (at least until the hardcovers arrive) the last book in The Tamuli. That's seventeen books by the same author, FYI, out of nineteen (and in storage I have his urban fantasy novel The Losers). While I may have more Jayne Ann Krentz novels (like, thirty to forty, something like that), I don't write much like her. I write more like the Eddings's. And those novels are so immersive and yet so sanppy in tone and fun. He wields sarcasm like a tool, and wit like a boxing glove, and dear God if my fantasy novel even comes remotely close to an Eddings novel I will die of happiness.
If you want a good set of fantasy novels, I recommend starting with The Elenium trilogy, and if you like it follow it up with The Tamuli trilogy. Those were done after The Belgariad and The Mallorean but those were the first ones I read, and I consider them a gateway drug. It was the only worthwhile gift my ex-stepmother ever gave me, those six novels. But yeah, while some think The Belgariad and The Mallorean are better I can guarantee you'll enjoy the hell out of the adventures of Sir Sparhawk and company, and then you can go read the twelve novels that make up Belgarion's saga.
Yeah. I'm in geek heaven right now. ::sings:: I got my series, I got it in hardcover. So once I finish rereading my paperback copy of The Hidden City I can put that book up on my donate list. Yay!