Books, glorious books
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icepixieI have disparaged the Nashville McKay's in the past for not being as large as the Knoxville one and for not having as extensive a sci-fi section. After today, I don't think I can do that any more.
I recently read S.L. Viehl's Stardoc, not realizing it was the beginning of a series. Of course, I was totally hooked, and needed to find the rest of the books, now numbering ten, with three more set in the same universe featuring different characters. I found all but the latest two of the main series, and the first of the other series. I was shocked. I also bought them all, along with five other books. The Stars Down Under looks particularly good (although I just realized it's a sequel to another book, Outback Stars...which my branch of the library has! Woot!), as does Waterland. In addition, yesterday I ran across mention of Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody series, and...this looks like something I need to read, so I requested the first one from the library. I'm hoping for a mixture of The Mummy and Possession or The Historian. (Which I coincidentally bought today. Pristine hardcover edition. FOR A DOLLAR. Oh, McKay bargain shelves, I love you so.)
Plus I am rereading If on a winter's night a traveler, for no particular reason beyond the fact that it's been four years and a graduate degree since the last time I read it. Calvino, I adore you too.
Uhhhh, yeah, so one day I'm going to get back to my B5 rewatch, but it may be a little while.
I recently read S.L. Viehl's Stardoc, not realizing it was the beginning of a series. Of course, I was totally hooked, and needed to find the rest of the books, now numbering ten, with three more set in the same universe featuring different characters. I found all but the latest two of the main series, and the first of the other series. I was shocked. I also bought them all, along with five other books. The Stars Down Under looks particularly good (although I just realized it's a sequel to another book, Outback Stars...which my branch of the library has! Woot!), as does Waterland. In addition, yesterday I ran across mention of Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody series, and...this looks like something I need to read, so I requested the first one from the library. I'm hoping for a mixture of The Mummy and Possession or The Historian. (Which I coincidentally bought today. Pristine hardcover edition. FOR A DOLLAR. Oh, McKay bargain shelves, I love you so.)
Plus I am rereading If on a winter's night a traveler, for no particular reason beyond the fact that it's been four years and a graduate degree since the last time I read it. Calvino, I adore you too.
Uhhhh, yeah, so one day I'm going to get back to my B5 rewatch, but it may be a little while.
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Date: 2010-08-29 05:46 am (UTC)(The second thing that comes to mind is, "WTF, McMullen, this was supposed to be good!")
Uh, I may be misremembering it as sillier than it was, but still.
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Date: 2010-08-29 05:39 pm (UTC)(The second thing that comes to mind is, "WTF, McMullen, this was supposed to be good!")
I tend to take book recommendations from professors with a large grain of salt for precisely this reason. Poetry is generally good, but novels, not so much usually.
Uh, I may be misremembering it as sillier than it was, but still.
Oh, dear. Well, I sent it to the back of the line of all the books I just got, so I might get to it by Christmas...
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Date: 2010-08-30 02:33 am (UTC)Noooooooooo!
I tend to take book recommendations from professors with a large grain of salt for precisely this reason.
Alas!
Well, I sent it to the back of the line of all the books I just got, so I might get to it by Christmas...
Hehehe awwwww. Yeah, I wouldn't rush into that....