Twice A Prince by Sherwood Smith

This is largely a continuation of the first “Sasharia en Garde!” book, Once A Princess, with Sun navigating Canardan’s court, Jehan deciding whether or not to rebel against his father, and Sasha searching for her father.

Actually, I wonder if young women searching for their fathers is a trend that’s catching on? Variations of it are one of the most common tropes for young heroes, but it seems to still be relatively unexplored for heroines, who are certainly going to face different troubles along the way.

( brief spoilers )

And now to wait for a new book to come out. Or get off my butt and read Senrid or Inda.

manhwa: Bride of the Water God Vol 3

I knew I should have dug out the first 2 volumes and reread them before reading this! But…uhm…I just have no idea where they are. Woes!

Though, as the series is pretty much the manhwaga going “Let me write a love letter to mythology and draw pretty pictures of the celestial heavens and kingdom and costumes!” it wasn’t hard to catch up.

Habaek kept his clothes on the entire volume. Unless we include the afterword including his original design. Is that a spoiler? I think the first two volumes had him losing his clothes so much that I thought he was allergic. It’s so gratuitous that I’m not sure it even counts as fanservice anymore.

( real spoilers )

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OMG it is 7 pm and 104 degrees fahrenheit (40 celcius)!  And only going to get hotter.

Meanwhile, booksale observations:

Day 1:  Note that prices have changed to 75 cents for paperback.  Only half listen to announcement of the prices.  See half the people put down their bags and boxes on top of tables to see what they REALLY want because they have to recalculate how many books they can get.  Be frightened of the people who have scanners and scan every book in a genre and get every book they don't have.  (This, I believe, is fairly equally split between people buying books to read, and various kinds of retailers.)

Day 2:  Watch people stop discriminating in what they get when an announcement is made that banana boxes*  of paperback books are $10 each.  Become genuinely concerned when it's changed to any books.

I suspect that the price change didn't change the proceeds much (most people who are going to get a lot of books at this and the Adult Literacy Council booksale tend to have a certain amount they're going to spend/donate, regardless of how many books they get) but was resulting in more books being left that they'd have to get rid of, so once they had what they needed, it became more free for all.

*They hold about 50-100 books, depending on the size of the books.