Books, glorious books

[icepixie]

I 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.

Comments

[foursweatervests]

Oh, the Amelia Peabody series is adorable. It gets very convoluted, very quickly, but has incredible characters. I am a fan.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

In addition, yesterday I ran across mention of Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody series, and...this looks like something I need to read

The Amelia Peabody books are fantastic. Great characters, fun dialogue, and historical accuracy absolutely to the nines. The author really knows her stuff (she has a few academic books out on Egyptology under her other name, and I keep meaning to hunt them down), and she's very good at using that information without overusing it and making it inaccessible to audiences who don't know anything about (or have much interest in) Egyptian archaeology. I hope you like them!!!

[rensong.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I thought I had already commented, but I must've forgotten to actually click the button or some such.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure you'll love the Amelia Peabody books! I read the first one a few years back and loved it - and what actually inspired me to read them in the first place was a Mummy fan fiction that used lines from the first book as the chapter titles. ;)

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

I tried reading Waterland several years ago (perhaps around the time I took McMullen's class? Maybe even on her recommendation?) and was severely underwhelmed. The setting is interesting, but the plot devolves pretty quickly into Pre-Teen SexyTiems, and... blergh. Also, I vaguely remember some Freud in there. I'm not sure I ever bothered to finish the book. The language was fairly pretty here and there, but... meh. Maybe you'll be better than me at finding a redeeming quality to it.

[magsyb.livejournal.com]

Books the ultimate distraction.. ;)