Books! Or, How yuki_onna tells me what to read

[emilytheslayer]

It's time for a books post! Wiscon is a literary con, and I bought books. Oh, did I buy books. I basically walked into the dealer's room and said "Here is all my monies, thank you." So, listing what I got, with some annotations

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[dulcinbradbury]

Secret History of Moscow was okay. I like Alchemy of Stone better. Don't read Sedia if you need something uplifting -- it doesn't seem to be her style. Her endings are neither neat nor pretty in places.

[pretzelcoatl]

GDI stop giving me more things to read. ...Even though I have one of them. ...And a crush on the Interstitial Arts Foundation too.

Oh, and Filter House was additionally praised at the Was it Good For You? panel, so I made sure to include it in the future. I just ran out of monies when I went back to the Dealer's Room. :(

[ultra_lilac]

I keep hearing about 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' too. Sounds like it might be worth checking out!

[wizardru]

Cool. I think I would have dropped some serious bucks there, too.

The Jim C. Hines books looks interesting, I'll have to check them out. About what ages for his books? I'm looking for stuff to recommend to the kids.

Sean has just finished book 4 of the Percy Jackson series. I think they might be his favorite books right now.

Molly meanwhile has read the first 3 Twilight books, the City of Bones series, and the Dead is the New Black series. So you can see what she's gotten interested in.

- Komochiko

[emilytheslayer]

The Stepsister Scheme is definitely YA, but possibly slightly older YA, like 15. If she's read Twilight though, she can handle it. Some slightly mature themes, like Cinderella being married and blushing whenever anyone brings up her honeymoon, she's pregnant, one of the female characters has a crush on one of the other ladies, and a past rape is alluded to, but I think handled well (it's part of Sleeping Beauty's past, and you pretty much can't examine that story without admitting that it sounds an awful lot like assault). The Goblin books I haven't read yet, but so far they seem like something Sean would enjoy. I should be finished with the first one in a few days, and I can give you a more thorough review then. It's hack-n-slash fantasy, but from the Goblin's perspective which sort of turns everything upside down, so I think he'd dig it.

[emilytheslayer]

And obviously, Molly might actually really like the Demon Princess book, based on her other stuff. :)

[saraphina_marie]

Woot! I hope you love it!