my loot, let me show it to you(and other bits)

[meganbmoore]

Today, the UBS and Waldenbooks were my friends.

Books:

Marjorie M. Liu:  Eye of Heaven
Fuyumi Ono: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadows
S.M. Peters: Whitechapel Gods
Dorothy L. Sayers: Clouds of Witness, Strong Poison,  The Unpleasantness at the Belladonna Club, The Five Red Herring, Lord Peter(anthology) and Busman's Honeymoon(anthology)
Rob Thurman: Madhouse

Manga:

Land of Silver Rain Vol 6-7
Pumpkin Scissors Vol 2
Togari Vol 5
xXxHolic Vol 11

Ordered from Amazon because no one local had a better price:

Stargate: Ark of Truth
Tin Man

BTW, Stargate fans, will I spoil myself for SGA if I just put it off until I've finished watching all of SG1 and AoT?

Meanwhile, I've started reading Robin McKinley's Spindle's End.  It's been a long time, but I remember loving the McKinley books I read in the past, but 30 pages in, it seems to be trying so very, very hard to be clever that the effect is almost too twee to swallow. Does it get better/is it worth sticking with, or am I better off either dropping it or setting it aside for later, and moving on to something else(like 12K or Madhouse)?

Meanwhile, I seem to have "accidentally" acquired Milano cookies and asiago cheese bread.  The cookies I know what to do with, but I have nothing to have with that bread... 

ETA:  Also, people owe me over $100 in ebay payments.  Do they not realize I have plans for that money?  Do they not realize that money will provide me with(primarily) hours of pretty korean people angsting prettily with swords and guns and other assorted weapons in period costumes, and pretty japanese people doing amazingly cracky things?  GIMME MONEY!

Comments

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

Hurray for Busman's Honeymoon, which is kind of lightweight according to the in-the-know Sayers fans but is one of my personal favorites, because it deepens the characters and relationships so beautifully.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Busman's Honeymoon I think suffers a little in comparison by following on the heels of Gaudy Night, which is perhaps Sayers' deepest work barring her scholarly non-fiction. It's very high on my list, though, for the way it blends the charming lightness of the best earlier stories with the increasing depth of the Harriet/Peter relationship.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

I love Gaudy Night. It was the first Sayers I ever read, because my then-boss had an extra copy and gave it to me, so I felt obliged to read it and say something. But I was hooked right away and reading it was a pleasure, and then I went on and read all the rest. Sayers danced so beautifully through the painful intricacies of the romance while never stinting on the mystery - and they worked together so well that I never felt manipulated.

OK, no more fangirlish ravings.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I think I need the order of the books again.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

Titles in order of story chronology (http://lordpeter.org/corpus/internal.php).

Clouds of Witness should be next up on your list.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Thankies. CoW has been moved to this month's reading list(a pity I didn't find the 3rd book...hopefully I'll have time to go to the other local UBS soon...I'll have to print that list off beforehand.)

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

If you want to be obsessively completist about it, make sure to scribble in Jill Paton Walsh's A Presumption of Death in the 1939 slot alongside "The Wimsey Papers", in between "The Haunted Policeman" and "Talboys".

[fmanalyst.livejournal.com]

I second Gaudy Night. I see its discussion of academic women and "having it all" as one of the strengths that make it transcend the genre of detective fiction.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The only Sayers I've read so far is Whose Body?, and I plan to read them in order, so it'll likely be a while until I make it to Busman's Honeymoon.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

A few more links you may find interesting as you read through these:

Sayers litcrit postings (http://truepenny.livejournal.com/tag/dls) by author Sarah Monette (aka truepenny) -- she revisited all the books in order, you'll need to skip back a few pages to get back to the beginning. Lots of interesting discussion in the posts and comments.

The Wimsey Annotations (http://www.planetpeschel.com/index?/wimsey/index/) -- this would be the DLS equivalent of Jess Nevin's comic spot-the-reference guides.