grrr and poll

[meganbmoore]

There was no "attempted delivery" slip in my mailbox. I am going to be generous and say that he did not realize he missed my stop for packages, and will bring it tomorrow. If it's my normal mailman, that probably IS what happened. But there's been a different guy a few times lately, so who knows. I REALLY hope I don't have to print of the USPS webpage tomorrow and go haggle and beg for info and a box despite my lack of slip.

ANYWAY!!!!

After I finish the Pierce quartet, I think I will read another Patricia McKillip and then a brick or two. "Brick," though, is really overstating it, as, while I few really ARE bricks, they're more books that will at least take me two or three solid sittings, and a few are omnibuses. ANYWAY! The f-list knows all, and is a wondrous thing for a person with too many options to have, and so:

[Poll #1206123]

Comments

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

Haven't you read Melusine already?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Nope. But I think we talked about it when I posted on Blood and Iron.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

That's what it is. Because Elizabeth Bear is Sarah Monette's BFF and they do the same thing when it comes to turning tropes on their sides and heads.

[gleckia.livejournal.com]

I love the Chronicles of Chrestomanci.
They are a pretty light read.
My Dad handed the book to me because he found it more "juvenile" than he likes.
I was also pleasantly surprised to find that she wrote Howl's Moving Castle.

[anime-heart.livejournal.com]

I was amazed at how much I liked The Death of the Necromancer. But not as much as The Element of Fire. And City of Bones.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Element of Fire had a lot of flaws, but it hit a lot of my squee points. I haven't read "city of bones" yet.

[melengro.livejournal.com]

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is a truly incredible book with a rich fictional universe and fascinating characters. Read it.

[fa3ryg1rl.livejournal.com]

I just bought Midnight Never Come to bring on vacation with me. It looks really good!

Other fairy related or fairy tale related (or just fantasy that reminds me of fairy tales) books I bought recently that look good and got decent reviews:
The Swan Maiden
A Curse as Dark as Gold
The Tree Shepard's Daughter (Faire Folk, Book 1)
Into the Wildewood (Faire Folk, Book 2)
Aurelia
Auralia's Colors (The Auralia Thread Series #1)
Cyndere's Midnight (The Auralia Thread Series #2 - not out yet)
The Crimson Thread (Once Upon a Time series)
Wicked Lovely (bk. 1)
Ink Exchange (bk. 2)
Ever (Gail Carson Levine)
Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand
Princess Ben
Girlwood
Kandide and the Secret of the Mists: The Calabiyau Chronicles-book 1
The Hallowmere series by Tiffany Trent
Wings: A Fairy Tale
Unveiling the Sorceress
Heart of Light (first of a trilogy)
The Swam Kingdom
Beyond the Hedge
Dragon Sword and Wind Child (but I heard about that one from you)
The Faerie Path Series by Frewin Jones
Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yup, Dragon Sword and Wind Child is from me.

I have no idea who most of those are by, though.

[fa3ryg1rl.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I haven't been feeling well so I just typed the titles. Most of them if you type the title into Amazon, they will come up as the first search result.