Setting this up very much in advance, so goodness knows what it’ll look like by the time I’m done…
Gifts
Yep, someone sent me Smashwords codes for all these. <3 I’m looking forward to trying them. I actually got them last week, but I didn’t remember in time to include them in that StS post.
Comics
Oh dear, all three out on the same day now? I got these covers from the Marvel site before the release, hence the lack of text (I think?).
SantaThing
I love taking part in the Secret Santa on LibraryThing; the person who had me to choose for clearly ‘got’ me as a reader, given how much I love Addison’s The Goblin Emperor. So good to have a dead tree version — and that’s an excuse to reread it, right? Right? …No? Anyway, I’m looking forward to reading the comics, too! I’m not as sure about The Name of the Wind; on the one hand, I’ve been recced it several times, on the other, some people I trust really disliked it. Still, prime excuse to try it!
Bought
I bought this for my mother a while back, but she hasn’t had chance to read it. (She’s nuts about fountain pens; it seemed perfect.) But I saw this copy today in The Works for £3, and I thought… well, why not? I was meaning to borrow it after Mum anyway.
What’s anyone else been getting?
I’m not familiar with any of your titles, but I hope you enjoy them!
My StS!
Thanks!
Nice haul! I have yet to read The Goblin Emperor, but I thought Name of the Wind was amazing!
Here’s how I Stacked the Shelves this week.
The Goblin Emperor is amazing, I do recommend it!
Enjoy your books! I haven’t been on Smashwords for a while so I might need to take a look again over the festive period to keep me amused-at least until the Amazon sales begin!
Oh, don’t talk to me about Amazon sales, I’m probably going to smash through my 365-books-or-less-this-year resolution because of them… Ha.
I keep intending to start The Name of The Wind, but I haven’t got around to it yet. I hope you enjoy all of your new additions!
It’s something I’ve been meaning to read, too. Thanks!
You might like this:
Oh, that’s an interesting version. I’m used to Loreena McKennitt’s!
Zillions of people have recorded this – got a link to Loreena McKennitt’s?
I just discovered this today, which couldn’t be more sparse and I think is delightful:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3dyUsXgL7ow
Oh yeah, I know a couple of others — I have a feeling Sandy Denny’s done it with Fairport Convention, and Cara Dillon, Jon Boden probably did it during his Folk Song a Day project… I’m enough of a folk fan I’ve probably heard dozens of different versions. It’s just the one I’ve heard most! Here’s Loreena McKennitt.
Fairport’s version has to be the most famous outside of trad folk fan circles, though I don’t like it that much, apart from her voice – but I remembered you were a folk fan from a previous convo on Goodreads.
Good memory, that!
You told me all your favourite bands and I’d never heard of any of them and vice versa – made me feel old! 😉
I’ve delved back a bit since then I think — Fairport Convention (mostly the Sandy Denny era), Sandy Denny, Maddy Prior… But I do tend to be more aware of the bright young things of folk like Seth Lakeman and Bellowhead. (Though Jon Boden of Bellowhead and his wife Fay Hield do a lot of work with the very traditional stuff as well — Boden’s Folk Song a Day project literally recorded a different folksong every day for a year.)
Interesting version with the bells and birdsong – unfamiliar lyrical variations threw me a bit, though.
I think that’s why I find other versions a bit odd — McKennitt’s was the first I heard!
Common phenomenon I think. Certainly the first version I heard is still my favourite and it’s true of various other songs I like that have been widely covered. All About Eve’s recording was that first version and they are responsible for me becoming a fan of proper trad folk (as opposed to folk rock).
Comics! Fun! Enjoy! Happy Reading & Happy Holidays!
My Stack
Yep! Thanks for commenting. Happy holidays to you too.
Awesome haul! I’ve been hearing really great things about The Name of the Wind so I hope you really enjoy that one. Fantasy is great. I hope you enjoy your books. 🙂 Happy holidays!
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
I’ve heard pretty good things too, as well as the more mixed reviews. Here’s hopin’! Thanks for commenting, happy holidays to you too.