On a more cheerful note...
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meganbmooreI’m currently reading Julia Quinn’s What Happens in London. The hero bough the heroine a gothic novel in which the heroine’s (of the gothic novel) mother was pecked to death by pigeons. The heroine thinks that’s stupid. The hero thinks it’s awesome.
Anyway, after months of neglect, I have updated the backlog.
Under the cut are all the random (and not random) books I have acquired over the last…3?...months. For the newish, I am firmly convinced that a person cannot die if they have unread books, and so am determined to achieve immortality by always having a backlog of books. I am also prone to the following:
1. Reading one book by an author and then acquiring every book of theirs that I can.
2. Going to a used bookstore and grabbing anything that looks interesting.
3. Randomly buying things from Amazon.
4. OMG BOOKS ON SALE MUST FIND WAY TO MEET SALE/FREE SHIPPING QUOTA!
When they talk about people who buy books as soon as they get money and then get groceries with whatever is left over, they’re talking about me. I think most of these are from #1 and my recent “Want historical fiction!” mood.
Anthology: The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits
Mary Balogh: Web of Love, No Man’s Mistress, The Gilded Web, More Than A Mistress, First Comes Marriage, Simply Magic, Simply Perfect, Simply Unforgettable, Then Comes Seduction, At Last Comes Love, The Secret Pearl, The Devil’s Web, Silent Melody
Jo Beverley: The Secret Wedding
Holly Black: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale
Rhys Bowen: Tell Me Pretty Maidens
Celeste Bradley: The Pretender, The Impostor, Desperately Seeking A Duke, Duke Most Wanted, The Duke Next Door, One Night With A Spy, To Wed A Scandalous Spy, Seducing the Spy
Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Sower, Fledgling
Liz Carlyle: Three Little Secrets, The Devil You Know, A Deal with the Devil, The Devil to Pay, Tempted All Night, A Woman of Virtue, No True Gentleman
Kathryn Caskie: To Sin With A Stranger, How To Engage An Earl, How to Seduce A Duke, How To Propose To A Prince
Victoria Dahl: A Rake’s Guide to Pleasure, To Tempt A Scotsman
Jacquie D’Alessandro: Tempted at Midnight, Seduced at Midnight, Confessions at Midnight, Sleepless at Midnight, The Bride Thief, Whirlwind Wedding, Red Roses Mean Love, Love and the Single Heiress
Melissa de la Cruz: Revelations*
Christie Dickason: The Firemaster’s Mistress**
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Palace of Illusions***
Cameron Dokey: The Storyteller’s Daughter
Lisa Dolby: The Tale of Murasaki****
Emma Donoghue: Life Mask
Ruth Downie: Medicus
Kathleen Duey: San Francisco Earthquake 1906
Jane Feather: Almost A Bride, Almost A Lady, A Husband’s Wicked Ways
John Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga*****
Roberta Gellis: A Mortal Bane
Alison Goodman: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Diana Wynne Jones: House of Many Ways
Marilyn Kaye: Penelope
Carla Kelly: The Surgeon’s Lady
E. E. Knight: Fall With Honor
Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian******
J. Sheridan Le Fanu: The Wyvern Mystery
Jane Lindskold: Thirteen Orphans
Malinda Lo: Ash
Michael Moorcock: The Elric Saga: Part 1, The Elric Saga: Part 2
Naomi Novik: Victory of Eagles
Olivia Parker: To Wed A Wicked Earl
Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It
Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Perilous Gard
Terry Pratchett: Men At Arms, Thud!, Thief of Time*******
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho********
Celia Rees: Sorceress
Philip Reeve: Starcross
Judith Merkle Riley: A Vision of Light
Lucia St. Clair Robson: The Tokaido Road
Michelle Sagara: Cast in Fury, Cast in Silence
Brandon Sanderson: The Hero of Ages
Delia Sherman: The Porcelain Dove
Sherwood Smith: King’s Shield
Rob Thurman: Deathwish
Gail Tsukiyama: Night of Many Dreams, Dreaming Water, The Language of Threads, Women of the Silk
Patricia Veryan: The Riddle of the Reluctant Lover, The Riddle of the Reluctant Rake, Had We Never Loved
Jules Watson: The White Mare
Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country
Liz Williams: The Demon and the City
Lauren Willig: The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, The Deception of the Emerald Ring
Jane Yolen: Briar Rose
*Oh, curses, it really is a series of trilogies!
**Sounds interesting, despite the despised “woman defined by relationship to man” title.
***How would this come across to someone only slightly familiar with the Mahabharata?
****Should definitely read a version of The Tale of Genji first.
*****Ended up interested in it due to the recent BBC adaptation, but am not sure how I’ll do with print-only versions of some of the characters.
******OMG how did I end up with a vampire book?
*******I think I can read more/all of the City Watch (or whatever the official title of the subseries is) books now? I’ll have to check against a list.
********I, uhm, kind of expect this to not be that great, but it’s mentioned in so many books that I’ve read that I should at least try.
Anyway, after months of neglect, I have updated the backlog.
Under the cut are all the random (and not random) books I have acquired over the last…3?...months. For the newish, I am firmly convinced that a person cannot die if they have unread books, and so am determined to achieve immortality by always having a backlog of books. I am also prone to the following:
1. Reading one book by an author and then acquiring every book of theirs that I can.
2. Going to a used bookstore and grabbing anything that looks interesting.
3. Randomly buying things from Amazon.
4. OMG BOOKS ON SALE MUST FIND WAY TO MEET SALE/FREE SHIPPING QUOTA!
When they talk about people who buy books as soon as they get money and then get groceries with whatever is left over, they’re talking about me. I think most of these are from #1 and my recent “Want historical fiction!” mood.
Anthology: The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits
Mary Balogh: Web of Love, No Man’s Mistress, The Gilded Web, More Than A Mistress, First Comes Marriage, Simply Magic, Simply Perfect, Simply Unforgettable, Then Comes Seduction, At Last Comes Love, The Secret Pearl, The Devil’s Web, Silent Melody
Jo Beverley: The Secret Wedding
Holly Black: Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie, Ironside: A Modern Faery’s Tale
Rhys Bowen: Tell Me Pretty Maidens
Celeste Bradley: The Pretender, The Impostor, Desperately Seeking A Duke, Duke Most Wanted, The Duke Next Door, One Night With A Spy, To Wed A Scandalous Spy, Seducing the Spy
Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Sower, Fledgling
Liz Carlyle: Three Little Secrets, The Devil You Know, A Deal with the Devil, The Devil to Pay, Tempted All Night, A Woman of Virtue, No True Gentleman
Kathryn Caskie: To Sin With A Stranger, How To Engage An Earl, How to Seduce A Duke, How To Propose To A Prince
Victoria Dahl: A Rake’s Guide to Pleasure, To Tempt A Scotsman
Jacquie D’Alessandro: Tempted at Midnight, Seduced at Midnight, Confessions at Midnight, Sleepless at Midnight, The Bride Thief, Whirlwind Wedding, Red Roses Mean Love, Love and the Single Heiress
Melissa de la Cruz: Revelations*
Christie Dickason: The Firemaster’s Mistress**
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni: The Palace of Illusions***
Cameron Dokey: The Storyteller’s Daughter
Lisa Dolby: The Tale of Murasaki****
Emma Donoghue: Life Mask
Ruth Downie: Medicus
Kathleen Duey: San Francisco Earthquake 1906
Jane Feather: Almost A Bride, Almost A Lady, A Husband’s Wicked Ways
John Galsworthy: The Forsyte Saga*****
Roberta Gellis: A Mortal Bane
Alison Goodman: Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
Diana Wynne Jones: House of Many Ways
Marilyn Kaye: Penelope
Carla Kelly: The Surgeon’s Lady
E. E. Knight: Fall With Honor
Elizabeth Kostova: The Historian******
J. Sheridan Le Fanu: The Wyvern Mystery
Jane Lindskold: Thirteen Orphans
Malinda Lo: Ash
Michael Moorcock: The Elric Saga: Part 1, The Elric Saga: Part 2
Naomi Novik: Victory of Eagles
Olivia Parker: To Wed A Wicked Earl
Susan Beth Pfeffer: Life As We Knew It
Elizabeth Marie Pope: The Perilous Gard
Terry Pratchett: Men At Arms, Thud!, Thief of Time*******
Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho********
Celia Rees: Sorceress
Philip Reeve: Starcross
Judith Merkle Riley: A Vision of Light
Lucia St. Clair Robson: The Tokaido Road
Michelle Sagara: Cast in Fury, Cast in Silence
Brandon Sanderson: The Hero of Ages
Delia Sherman: The Porcelain Dove
Sherwood Smith: King’s Shield
Rob Thurman: Deathwish
Gail Tsukiyama: Night of Many Dreams, Dreaming Water, The Language of Threads, Women of the Silk
Patricia Veryan: The Riddle of the Reluctant Lover, The Riddle of the Reluctant Rake, Had We Never Loved
Jules Watson: The White Mare
Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence, The Custom of the Country
Liz Williams: The Demon and the City
Lauren Willig: The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, The Deception of the Emerald Ring
Jane Yolen: Briar Rose
*Oh, curses, it really is a series of trilogies!
**Sounds interesting, despite the despised “woman defined by relationship to man” title.
***How would this come across to someone only slightly familiar with the Mahabharata?
****Should definitely read a version of The Tale of Genji first.
*****Ended up interested in it due to the recent BBC adaptation, but am not sure how I’ll do with print-only versions of some of the characters.
******OMG how did I end up with a vampire book?
*******I think I can read more/all of the City Watch (or whatever the official title of the subseries is) books now? I’ll have to check against a list.
********I, uhm, kind of expect this to not be that great, but it’s mentioned in so many books that I’ve read that I should at least try.