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[meganbmoore]

Books:

Ilona Andrews: Magic Burns
Marie Brennan: Midnight Never Come
Rachel Caine: Firestorm
Trudi Canavan: Voice of the Gods
Glen Cook: The Black Company, Shadows Linger
Simon R. Green: Daemons Are Forever
Barbara Hambly: The Witches of Wenshar
Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle, Fire and Hemlock, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Vols 1 & 2
Phyllis Ann Karr: Frostflower and Windbourne
Patricia A. McKillip: The Changeling Sea
Tamora Pierce: Sandry's Book, Tris's Book, Daja's Book, Briar's Book
Dorothy L. Sayers: Gaudy Night, Hangman's Holiday, Have His Carcase
Sherwood Smith: Crown Duel
Carloine Stevermer: When the King Comes Home
Nahoko Uehashi: Guardian of the Spirit(Moribito)
Michelle West: The Riven Shield, The Sun Sword
Patricia C. Wrede: Mairelon the Magician
Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer: Sorcery and Cecelia
Jane Yolen: Dragon's Blood

Manga:

Angel Sanctuary Vol 7
The Good Witch of the West Vol 5-6
Hotel Africa Vol 1
Kamen Tantei Vol 3
Missing: Kamikakushi no Monogatari Vol 3
Orfina Vol 1-2
The Other Side of the Mirror Vol 1-2
Peacemaker Vol 3
RG Veda Vol 1, 3
Rose Hip Rose Vol 1
Samurai Deeper Kyo Vol 28
Suikoden III Vol 4-11
X/1999 Vol 3, 6

Light Novels/manga books:

The Good Witch of the West Vol 2
Missing Vol 2

So, anyone want to guess what rachelmanijathrew in my basket, what she threw in twice, what I stared at, trying to remember if I had it already, bought, and then realized that yes, I did already have it?  Or what I got from Amazon?  (A desperate ploy for entertainment?  Me?)

BTW,  telophase, I think I may have left a book there.  If you see a book by Jo Beverley, let me know and I'll pay you to ship it.  (Or let you keep/toss it, as I can probably find it here for about the cost of shipping.)


 

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to your thoughts about Hotel Africa. I keep eyeing that one but remain unsure since I haven't heard much about it.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Rightstuf's sales tens to get me on the impulse buys.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Their current DrMaster sale is tempting me into buying The Four Constables.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I haven't even gone through it yet. I probably will tomorrow.

[chomiji]

• Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle, Fire and Hemlock, The Chronicles of Chrestomanci Vols 1 & 2


• Phyllis Ann Karr: Frostflower and Windbourne


• Patricia A. McKillip: The Changeling Sea


• Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer: Sorcery and Cecelia

Awesome! (Except that Frostflower and Windbourne is Book 2 ... you'd have a lot more context if you read the first book. They're odd - they should be terrible, but they're compulsively readable, and the eventual friendship between Thorn and Frostflower is one of the few examples of realistic female-female "best friends" that I can remember in fantasy.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yes, there was a post shopping discussion about the Karr book, including the fact that what was thought to be the first was the second. (It's the one that accidentally got tossed in twice.) But telophase says she read the second one first and had no problems, so we'll see.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

You know... I think I still have the Sword & Sorceress anthology volumes that have the original Thorn & Frostflower short stories. I didn't even realize there were books about them!

(I remember the intros mentioning Karr had been working on a novel about them.)

[estara.livejournal.com]

My exact first thought about this news.

[wingstodust.livejournal.com]

*gasps* you have midnight never come?!! *JEALOUS* i thought it wasn't coming out till june 9th or something?!!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yup. That's what I thought, too, but I have it. I also saw it at the bookstore when I was there earlier.

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

Did you know DWJ is doing a sequel to Howl's Moving Castle? (Yeah, other than CASTLE IN THE SKY.) It's The House of Many Ways... I think it comes out in two weeks.

I need a copy of Midnight Never Come....

[calixa.livejournal.com]

Really? REALLY? YAY.

The House of Many Ways

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061477958/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&v=glance

Re: The House of Many Ways

[calixa.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[chomiji]

Two good resources for keeping up with DWJ are the DWJ mailing list (archives here) and the LJ Diana Wynne Jones community. They've both been talking about The House of Many Ways for a while now.

[calixa.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I'll be joining the comm :)

[salimbol.livejournal.com]

Yes, many thanks for that tip! And an actual sequel to 'Howl'; what great news.
Megan, I see you had 'Fire and Hemlock' in your basket as well; I approve entirely. That's an awesome book.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...didn't actually realize Castle in the Sky was connected to Howl's Moving Castle...

[sora-blue.livejournal.com]

It's set in the same world, I think.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

It's a sequel of sorts, taking place perhaps a few years after HMC, and a few familiar characters including Sophie and Howl do appear in it; the central character is new, however.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

And has a few of the same characters. But it's more a thematic sequel.

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

"Barbara Hambly: The Witches of Wenshar"
I've read this one but don't have much of a memory of it... must have been fairly ordinary but not so bad I didn't read the third book.
"Diana Wynne Jones: Howl's Moving Castle, Fire and Hemlock"
"Howl's Moving Castle" was great fun. "Fire and Hemlock"... I could see how it was a good story, it just wasn't my sort of thing.
"Patricia C. Wrede: Mairelon the Magician"
I think I've read this one. All right but not earth-shattering; I probably wasn't the target audience.
"Jane Yolen: Dragon's Blood"
Read it a long time ago; did not like it at all. It (or maybe the other in the series: there were two I read in the series at the same time) struck me as McCaffrey-toned-down-for-kids.

[no1-antielitist.livejournal.com]

Patricia C. Wrede! I used to love her books. I still reread

Caught in Crystal

every once in a while, and I bought a box set of her Enchanted Forest Chronicles for nostalgia's sake a couple years back. I'm just happy that someone else has heard of her!!!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I THINK I may have read one or two of her books in HS, but I'm not sure.

[calixa.livejournal.com]

I loved the Enchanted Forest Chronicles, read them in HS and still fondly take them out every now and then :D

[smartycat.livejournal.com]

Mairelon the Magician is one of my comfort books, like cookies and hot chocolate on a rainy day to my soul.