Comments | thewronghands: [Book Reviews] A bunch of coyotes, wrangling, and voyages

thewronghands

[Book Reviews] A bunch of coyotes, wrangling, and voyages

Jun 02, 2010 04:44

( River-Walking Songbirds & Singing Coyotes: An Uncommon Field Guide to Northwest Mountains )

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miss_adventure June 2 2010, 17:52:49 UTC

Thank you, incidentally, for The Far Traveler. (I'd meant to thank you in person on Monday. So sorry, I'm not not where my manners wandered off to.) I enjoyed it immensely. Funnily enough, I'd recently reread the Iceland chapter in Collapse.

May I recommend the Viking ship museum in Copenhagen (as well as Copenhagen in general). [grin]

thewronghands June 2 2010, 17:56:55 UTC

I'm glad you liked it -- thank you for the field guide! I thought that you would likely have enjoyed it as much as I did, it was a well told tale. [grin]

Hooray for Copenhagen; I'll definitely check that out if I'm ever in the area.

varina8 June 2 2010, 20:56:45 UTC

Four and a half talking Bob the Skulls out of five.

I concur. I spent my entire holiday Monday polishing it off. Not happy about the cliffhanging, though.

thewronghands June 3 2010, 01:27:44 UTC

If the next book were available now, it wouldn't be nearly so annoying.

varina8 June 3 2010, 04:50:48 UTC

I agree. Do we know a publishing date for the next one?

Off-topic, I just started reading Methland and am riveted to it. I have some quibbles with his timeline (based on my coverage of methamphetamine in the late 1980s and early 1990s) but overall he does a great job of pulling together the links between the emergence of meth cooking in the flyover zone and the collapse of the rural economy. He also hits on the issues of class. I'd highly recommend it.

A gal can hope katestine June 3 2010, 20:52:34 UTC

There's a short story collection called Side Jobs coming out in the fall that's supposed to have a novella or short story set 15mins after the end of Changes. Also, it seems like his other series is done, so maybe we'll get two books a year now?

qaexl June 4 2010, 10:37:55 UTC

Have you read Crown of Slaves? Less logistics, more underhanded blood and gore.

-Q

qaexl June 4 2010, 10:42:03 UTC

Oh yeah, I've been making my way through Dresden this past month ... and got side-tracked with Butcher's Codex Alera series. Finished all six books in the past two weeks. I find it funny when I read some of the critics comments about how awesome his magic system is. The martial arts was pretty well done, easy to visualize.

-Q