The Books are in the Mail
Ordered from Amazon last night:
Tamora Pierce ~ Battle Magic
-- No surprises there, unless the surprise is that I didn't have it on pre-order.
Mary Robinette Kowal ~ Glamour in Glass and Without a Summer
-- I adored these so much I have to have 'real' copies as well as my ebook copies. As Amazon didn't have the first title in hardback I'll have to hunt that up on ABE Books.
Rick Riordan ~ The House of Hades
-- Number four in the Lost Olympians series. I might buy an ebook copy so I can re-read them on the Kindle, but this copy is in hardback for my collection.
Blue Balliett ~ Hold Fast
-- The first Blue Balliet title I read - Chasing Vermeer - I didn't keep, but then later bought a copy to replace the one I'd sold and now I'm a fan. Always interesting and quirky.
Gail Carriger ~ Curtsies & Conspiracies
-- I'm looking forward to getting my head back into the 'prequel' YA series.
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I did a lot of work on the reading database this morning. I not only reworked the general fiction area (as discussed in a previous post), but I had a sudden brainstorm that I could combine my romance, children's and non-fiction reading databases in with the general fiction and have a single reading database. (Obviously 'one database to rule them all'.)
It wasn't as tricky as I thought, although I had to add a column for category (or, Which database would this book have been in under the old scheme?): G = general or 'grown ups', C = children's and YA, R = romance, and N = non-fiction. I had a few surprises, though, when I realised I started databasing my romance reading a whole year ahead (2003) of beginning to record the rest (2004). Also that, even with no general or children's reading for 2003 and the early part of 2004 (and still not being caught up with August - today), I have read 2994 books in the 10 years of running some sort of record.
I don't usually get into the game of counting up how many books a year - especially not as a comparison with others since I read a lot of children's, old-fashioned children's, and romance, all of which tend to be quick reads. In fact, I actively avoid reading long books but still ... 3000 books in 10 years. That's way, way more than I expected.
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Tamora Pierce ~ Battle Magic
-- No surprises there, unless the surprise is that I didn't have it on pre-order.
Mary Robinette Kowal ~ Glamour in Glass and Without a Summer
-- I adored these so much I have to have 'real' copies as well as my ebook copies. As Amazon didn't have the first title in hardback I'll have to hunt that up on ABE Books.
Rick Riordan ~ The House of Hades
-- Number four in the Lost Olympians series. I might buy an ebook copy so I can re-read them on the Kindle, but this copy is in hardback for my collection.
Blue Balliett ~ Hold Fast
-- The first Blue Balliet title I read - Chasing Vermeer - I didn't keep, but then later bought a copy to replace the one I'd sold and now I'm a fan. Always interesting and quirky.
Gail Carriger ~ Curtsies & Conspiracies
-- I'm looking forward to getting my head back into the 'prequel' YA series.
~ ~ ~
I did a lot of work on the reading database this morning. I not only reworked the general fiction area (as discussed in a previous post), but I had a sudden brainstorm that I could combine my romance, children's and non-fiction reading databases in with the general fiction and have a single reading database. (Obviously 'one database to rule them all'.)
It wasn't as tricky as I thought, although I had to add a column for category (or, Which database would this book have been in under the old scheme?): G = general or 'grown ups', C = children's and YA, R = romance, and N = non-fiction. I had a few surprises, though, when I realised I started databasing my romance reading a whole year ahead (2003) of beginning to record the rest (2004). Also that, even with no general or children's reading for 2003 and the early part of 2004 (and still not being caught up with August - today), I have read 2994 books in the 10 years of running some sort of record.
I don't usually get into the game of counting up how many books a year - especially not as a comparison with others since I read a lot of children's, old-fashioned children's, and romance, all of which tend to be quick reads. In fact, I actively avoid reading long books but still ... 3000 books in 10 years. That's way, way more than I expected.
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