It's a small world...

[torrain]

Ran across an interview of Silvia Moreno-Garcia yesterday, and was mildly amused to find that the blog running the interview belongs to one of the people that I ran into at CanCon last year. I'd lost his card, so it's nice to find it again.[1]

(Also, if I trip over Ian Rogers' name one more time in the next week I am going to need to get Every

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[onemoreshadow]

Does my finding your Livejournal via Google Alerts count as a frequency illusions? If so, then I guess you have to buy my book now! Cue the evil laughter! All part of my master plan of world domination. Or.... you know, to sell a few extra books.

Btw, I've got a second collection out, a series of novellas about a Toronto PI in a world where the supernatural exists. I mention it only because the first novella in the book is free online. In case you wanted to check it out. Here's a link:

http://theblacklands.com/2012/10/08/temporary-monsters-now-available-as-a-free-ebook/

Okay, end shameless self-promotion.

[torrain]

*grin* That one's already in my Smashwords library, although I haven't started it yet - the overlap of my "to-read" and "owned" shelves on goodreads is unfortunately in the low triple digits at the moment.

And I imagine this can count. :) I bought saffron today, so my disposable income is low this week, but I'll call the local bookstore and they should be able to get it in next week or so.

[onemoreshadow]

No problem. I can totally relate. My reading pile is huge, and I'm a slow reader. There's no hope for me. But I'm going to put as big a dent in the pile as I can, for as long as I can.

[torrain]

Yeah. :s I had an awkward "wait, what do you mean I already have a copy" incident with a booksale[1], and since then I am trying to at least organize the reading pile a little better. And possibly find books that I think I will not read again a home where someone will read them again, because a book in a house where no-one cares to pick it up is a sad thing.

Best luck with the book pile. :) I'm thinking I might try alternating "new book" with "oh dear god, this one has been waiting for ages" this year... I hope to get it down to double digits. I don't expect to, but I hope?
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[1] In my defense, when the nice National Archives are doing fundraising and the books are running an average of a dollar or less each, it is perhaps understandable to be a teeny bit extravagent in one's acquisitions... Still. Mystic River.

[orrin]

Yeah, Ian's a great guy and a good friend, but even if he weren't, I really couldn't recommend Every House is Haunted highly enough. Best thing I read last year, I'm pretty sure.

I'm all too familiar with the teetering to-read pile, and the "books I want to buy but don't currently have the money to buy them all so which one do I pick, if any" phenomenon as well.

[torrain]

Ergh, yeah. I make a point of keeping it down to twenty books or less on my wishlist-plus shelf on GoodReads (am starting to find that site really useful[1]), and some of them I do not think I will ever be able to afford unless there are reprints. Recommendations are a valuable tool to help narrow down choices on the remaining ones, though.

(Local bookstore tells me they will have Every House is Haunted in in about a week

[orrin]

I find Goodreads pretty handy as well, though I chiefly use it to keep track of what I have read, and to note down whenever I come across a book that seems like something I'd like to read so that I don't have to try to remember it. Hence my incredibly weird, messy "to read" list.

By the way, I meant to say this earlier, thanks for the review of Never Bet the Devil over on Goodreads and Amazon! I'm glad you enjoyed it, and it's always awesome to see which particular stories work for people. And yeah, Robert Westall is definitely worth checking out. I recommend either of the "best of" volumes they put out (Demons and Shadows and Shades of Darkness) and his novella The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral as good places to start. Because, again, you needed more on that to-read pile...

[torrain]

*tips hat* Welcome. I am very slow and awkward at writing reviews, am glad it turned out okay. :)

Ideally, I'd like to have my Goodreads be a complete listing of the books I actually owned, as well as the ones I've read since I picked it up. But an unfortunate side effect of picking up old/cheap books at used bookstores/libraries/other sales, and not letting go of books that I've had for a while it that they don't all have ISBNs. Some don't even have UPCs. It makes entering them into the system a lot slower.

Feel you on the to-read list, though. Mine is a few hundred, and I would like to trim it a bit, but... one step at a time, I suppose. :)

(Will see if the library has either of the best-ofs, although probably not this month - have a couple of books out I need to read and discuss with other people, and those are high priority by virtue of the casual deadline.)