Book Hauls!

[GOLLUM]

....picked up Foxmask (Julliet Marillier) from the bargain shelf. When I got home, I found it was the second book in a series (The Children of the Light Isles), so I guess I'll be book hauling again soon .

Suprise... I've read both Wolfmask and Foxmask. The 2 books are linked but from memory more through a second generation than the inital protagonsits. You can proably read Foxmask before getting your hands on Wolfmask if you're having troubles locating it as they both act as standalones, albeit linked by location & period and some of the characters.

I'm not a huge fan of Marillier, although she certainly rises above the mundance as a skillfull storyteller.....

 

[Lunatic]

Just bought a little know book titled Fevre Dream. Never heard of the author though. George somethin...

Also got The King of Elfhand's Daughter by Lord Dunsany and The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne Valente.

 

[Panic_Fire]

wow, let's make a list here,

i recently bought:

all the available books of "The Wheel Of Time" serie
All available Harry Potter books (yes i like them, no i don't think it's childish)
a lot of terry pratchett, but i forgot which i already had and which i don't, so...

Trudi Canavan - Age of the five (trilogy) book 1 - Priestess of the White
book 2 - Last of the Wilds
and i ordered book 3 - Voice of the Gods

i also bought, Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which i find pretty interesting.

 

[elvet]

Suprise... I've read both Wolfmask and Foxmask. The 2 books are linked but from memory more through a second generation than the inital protagonsits. You can proably read Foxmask before getting your hands on Wolfmask if you're having troubles locating it as they both act as standalones, albeit linked by location & period and some of the characters.

I'm not a huge fan of Marillier, although she certainly rises above the mundance as a skillfull storyteller.....

Just as well, since I had no luck finding Wolfmask today at a larger store. Did pick up Pilgrim (Sara Douglass) and Clothar the Frank (Jack Whyte).
I've also been on the lookout for the Gemquest series (Gary Wassner). Is it out of print?

 

[robertt]

Re: Recent Buys

I'm sick of swords, personally.

 

[Jason_Taverner]

Re: Recent Buys

I'm sick of swords, personally.

try horror for a bit of a change

 

[Cerberus]

More books for the collection
Terry Pratchett - Wee Free Men & Masqurade
Dan Brown - Deception Point
Philip K Dick - A Scanner Darkly
Edgar Allen Poe - Tales of Mystery and Imagination

 

[GOLLUM]

I've also been on the lookout for the Gemquest series (Gary Wassner). Is it out of print?

Not sure.

I can check with Gary on this or else members in the know about this series like Nixie might be able to throw light upon your query.

 

[nixie]

Far as I'm aware The Gemquest series is only available from States, they won't be out of print as they where only released March 2005.The fourth book is due out early next year.

 

[beenorthern]

My friend, who likes what she calls "science fiction by gaslight", asked me to order some Hyperion classics from Abebooks. In return, she took my five-page want list and trolled the bookstores. In the last couple of weeks she's brought me a couple of BIG bags of books:

In addition to several mysteries,

*A Blackbird in Silver*, *A Blackbird in Darkness*, *A Blackbird in Amber*,
*A Blackbird in Twilight, *The Sapphire Throne* & *The Amber Citadel*
Freda Warrington
*The Bloody Red Baron* Kim Newman
*Sorceror's Treason* & *The Usurper's Crown* Sarah Zettel
*The Swords of Night and Day* David Gemmell
*Wolf Captured* Jane Lindskold
*Neverness* David Zindell
*Turning the Storm* Naomi Kritzer
*Magic Casements* & *Enchantment's End* Marc Alexander
*A Clash of Kings* & *A Storm of Swords* George R.R. Martin
*Dragon's Winter* Elizabeth A. Lynn
*Pandora's Star* Peter F. Hamilton
and a replacement copy of *Lion of Senet* Jennifer Fallon (water damage)

I was amazed that she was able to find so much Warrington, but she knows all the used bookstores in Toronto!

 

[elvet]

Far as I'm aware The Gemquest series is only available from States, they won't be out of print as they where only released March 2005.The fourth book is due out early next year.

Thanks for the info .

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I went to Half Price Books this morning, and they had an unusual number of books that I really wanted. Unfortunately, I only had $15 dollars, so I had to pick and choose. (At a time when someone had recently brought in a nice selection of OP Tanith Lee, too!)

These are the books I finally decided on:

The Woman Who Loved Reindeer, by Meredith Ann Pierce (Read it years ago and recently decided that I wanted to read it again but the library didn't have it -- so I thought finding it today was a little too fortuitous to pass up.)

East of Midnight, by Tanith Lee
Delirium's Mistress, by Tanith Lee
Into Gold, by Tanith Lee

Within the Hollow Hills, edited by John Matthews (Celtic-themed short fiction. Stories by Henry Treece, Rosemary Sutcliff, James Branch Cabell, and many others.)

 

[j d worthington]

I picked up a small book called Supernatural Tales, by Vernon Lee (Violet Paget), which contains six of her stories. She was a contemporary of Browning, Shaw, Whistler and Wharton, and her tales have long been felt to be among the best of the Victorian supernatural writers. Unfortunately, most of them have been long out of print or only available in limited (and expensive) editions; so it's quite nice to have come across an inexpensive paperback collection, even if a small one.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I was going through a Vernon Lee period myself around the end of last year or the beginning of this -- don't remember where or how much I discussed her stories here. And someone (I don't remember who) brought up Amour Dure fairly recently. Which stories are in the book you have, JD? Winthrop's Adventure and A Wicked Voice are probably my favorites. (Many people act as though they were versions of the same story, but I don't think they are so alike as that.)

 

[j d worthington]

This collection has: "Prince Alberic and the Snake Lady", "The Wedding Chest", "Amour Dure", "A Wicked Voice", "The Legend of Madame Krasinska" and "The Virgin of the Seven Daggers". I have a few other of her stories, such as A Phantom Lover, "Oke of Okehurst" and perhaps one or two others, but that's it.

 

[GOLLUM]

Today picked up:

Umbert Eco's - The Island Of The Day Before
Umbert Eco's - Focualt's Pendulum
Greg Keyes - The Blood Knight

 

[Cerberus]

Just landed a few more books to the collection a few days ago
Asimov - prelude to foundation and foundations edge
and a signed copy of The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (thanks to my lovely wife)

 

[Stenevor]

Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Iron Council - China Mieville
Litany of the Long Sun - Gene Wolfe
1984 - George Orwell

£1 each from various charity shops.

 

[j d worthington]

Got the two latest Hippocampus Press releases in the mail today:

Lovecraft's New York Circle: The Kalem Club, 1924-1927, edited by Mara Kirk and S. T. Joshi -- a compilation of the (mostly previously unpublished) letters of George Kirk, a member of the Kalems and close friend of HPL's, plus a history of the club and a selection of writings by each of the more prominent members: HPL, Kirk, Rheinhart Kleiner, F. B. Long, Samuel Loveman, Everett McNeil and James Ferdinand Morton... and

The Freedom of Fantastic Things: Selected Criticism on Clark Ashton Smith, edited by Smith scholar Scott Connors, who has compiled the forthcoming 5-volume set of Smith's complete fantasies from Night Shade Books. Not only does this have essays from the likes of Donald Sidney-Fryer, James Blish, Fred Chappell, S. T. Joshi, Brian Stableford, Steve Behrends, Stefan Dziemianowicz and Connors himself, it also includes an annotated chronology of Smith's Fiction by Behrends ... a very useful tome, all in all.

 

[elvet]

Thanks to Teresa Edgerton's thread, I picked up The Curse of Chalion, Paladin of Souls, and The Hallowed Hunt all by Lois McMaster Bujold. I also got The Eagle by Jack Whyte.