First StS of a new month! I can’t believe I’ve (mostly) been sticking to my resolutions so far… This has been a busy week, but I promise, I’m still sticking to my resolutions like glue.
Received to review
Making my sister burningly jealous! Alastair Reynolds was the author who got her back into reading when I handed her Century Rain; she hasn’t looked back since, and she’s read that one at least three times. I’ve read this already, but it’s actually a while before the review goes up… I’ve gotten awfully ahead of myself with scheduling!
Bought
I’ve been meaning to buy the SF Gateway Omnibuses of McKillip’s work for a while. Now I have them (thanks, Mum). I got The Mirror World of Melody Black because I loved The Universe vs Alex Woods, and Voyage of the Basilisk because I didn’t get round to my ARC in time. Also, I now have The Just City, which I didn’t own yet. I swear I’m gonna get a review up for it soon.
Library
I’ve been meaning to try Lindsey Davis for aaaages. This one is apparently a standalone, according to someone I was on duty with at the library, so that’s where I’m going to start — since we don’t have the first Falco book. Gah. Anyway, the others are mostly fairly random picks, except for Ringworld which is another upcoming read for the SF/F Book Club in Cardiff.
Comics
Yay Spider-Gwen!
And to finish off, a couple of things I’ve added to my lists lately on Scribd and Blloon.
So yeah, as usual, I have plenty on my plate. What’s anyone else been getting? Are you gonna make me expand my never ending to read list…?
Excellent haul. I really want to read The Mirror World of Melody Black. I also loved Gavin’s debut. I hope you enjoy these books.
Me too, I’ve read his note about it at the end of the book and that made me want to read it even more.
I tried reading Trance but had to abandon it. I didn’t think it was a bad book or anything but I realised that the superhero type theme wasn’t really my favourite thing! So I ran back to my monsters! Hope you enjoy your books-they should keep you busy for a while!
I love my superheroes, haha. Thank you!
BookDepostiry helps me whenever I want to add a few more bricks to the wall of books. I’ve been trying to buy everything from their Great Ideas series. It seems like a great intoduction to philosophy.
I’m trying not to get more, haha.
I haven’t read any of these but I hope you enjoy them. Happy reading!
Tsuki’s STS
Thanks for dropping by!
Nice haul. I’ve always had the best intentions of giving Alastair Reynolds a read, but he’s yet to climb his way to the top of Mount TBR.
I’ve been meaning to reread his work, ’cause it’s been years, but… *gestures helplessly at Mount TBR*
This haul is excellent looking. A lot of your books are new to me, since I haven’t heard of any of them. The covers are outstanding.
Grace @ Books of Love
Thank you! And yeah, especially the Patricia McKillip covers — I think they’re all, or nearly all, done by Kinuko Craft.
Going nuts over your bought books. Soooo pretty! And I hope you’ll enjoy Voyage of the Basilisk, I thought it was wonderful. And now I’m more and more curious about The Just City.
I knooow. Most of them are ebooks, so I don’t have the pretty, but I looove the covers of McKillip’s books.
And oh, have you read any Jo Walton? She’s amazing. (And a lovely person too.)
I haven’t read or heard of any of these, but that Basilik book looks great! You have a great variety of books and I definitely need to check out a few of these!
-Jon from Bookish Antics!
I’m looking forward to it! Though… I need to read the previous book first, whoops. Thanks for dropping by!
I really like that cover of Voyage of the Basilisk! It looks like an interesting read. Happy reading. 🙂
I’m looking forward to it! Thanks for dropping by.
I have have not heard of these titles. Several of them sound very interesting!
I know, I’m excited about them!
I’m not very familiar with these, but my goodness, the covers are gorgeous! They sound so unique too! Hope you enjoy them all, and have a wonderful week 🙂
Yeah, Kinuko Craft does all the McKillip covers and they’re amazing!
I didn’t realize G. Willow Wilson wrote novels too! *makes a note to pick up her books*
I am still reading Bitter Greens and I just bought Hellhound by Rose Burnhouse because I really love her fic. I need to finish these up, because I have a bunch of Susanna Kearsley’s books on hold for me at the library.
I think Alif the Unseen is the only one so far, but I’m looking forward to reading it!
Hee. Which ones have you got hold of? I still have so many to read — I’ve only read The Rose Garden and Season of Storms. I need to read Named of the Dragon soon…
Named of the Dragon, The Shadowy Horses, and Mariana are the ones at the library and I’m waiting on Season of Storms but that’s coming inter-library loan, so who knows when it’ll get here.
Ooh. People keep telling me Mariana is awesome. Let me know?
Great haul! I’ve not heard of any of these but I do hope that you enjoy them all! 🙂
Krystianna @ Downright Dystopian
Thanks!
Great haul! I really need to buy a hard copy of The Just City soon (and write a review…) Looking forward to hearing what you think of the latest Lady Trent which is sitting on my TBR mountain too.
Enjoy your books and happy reading 🙂
Thank you! I still need to catch up with Tropic of Serpents, oops. Mount TBR is fickle.
I have Trance since its release but I still need to read it. Happy reading!
Goodness knows how long it’ll take me to get round to it…! Thanks for dropping by.
The Goddess Chronicles looks very interesting. I haven’t heard of the other books but I hope you enjoy them 🙂 Thank you for stopping by my blog!
Thanks for visiting! Hopefully they’ll all be as good as they look, haha.
OMG! You are the first person I have seen with Patricia McKillip on their blog! I am sooo happy to see that! I love her books. This series of books are so beautifully written and so magical I just wish more people were aware of them.
It is through these books that I became familiar with Kinuko Craft’s work and I set about collecting every jigsaw puzzle with her artwork I could find. I have a nice collection of them.
Enjoy!
BTW, I’m a new follower!
I don’t think I’ve seen many people reading her work either, but she so deserves it! Such beautiful books. And Kinuko Craft’s work is perfect too.
Nice to meet you!
Is Slow Bullets the follow-on from Steel Breeze?
Nope, standalone novella.