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Dec. 15th, 2016 04:52 pmTwo books I need to review, sitting on my desk:
Rachel Caine's Paper And Fire, second in the Great Library series. For anybody still outraged about the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria, an alternate world where it survived and comes to rule the world. I found it in the huge Brisbane Dymocks store, which was packed with shoppers that Sunday. I had meant to check out the various other bookshops in Brisbane, particularly Pulp Fiction, but they were closed.
Also a book I picked up almost by accident at Stefen's Books, since the two I had been considering were not in the shop. Silver on the Road, by Laura Anne Gilman; another alternate world/magic exists story which is rather hard to classify, taking place in what the book's characters call the Devil's West. The Devil himself runs a saloon, well, what else would he do in the American old west, or a version of it? Perfect place to make bargains with his people. Isobel has been living under his roof since she was a small child. Now, at sixteen, it is time for her to choose her bargain.
Anyway, I want to think about these two a bit more before I write a proper review, but they were very enjoyable. Silver is quite possibly the better book.
In a week's time I go on leave and will then have time to consider books and do some proper writing, though I'm still going with the Nano novel, which did not get completed or even up to 50,000 words in November, but I sort of suspected that might happen. November and December are killer months in the gulag. I'm tired with the sort of weariness that has built up over the year and doesn't fade with a couple of days off. People keep asking what I'm doing for Christmas, but since I will have been on leave only one day when that rolls around, the answer is still nothing.
My mother is going to visit my brother and his family and presumably they'll do the whole Christmas thing. Me, I'll wait till New Year's and the party I'll be heading to then. That's the real celebration.
Rachel Caine's Paper And Fire, second in the Great Library series. For anybody still outraged about the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria, an alternate world where it survived and comes to rule the world. I found it in the huge Brisbane Dymocks store, which was packed with shoppers that Sunday. I had meant to check out the various other bookshops in Brisbane, particularly Pulp Fiction, but they were closed.
Also a book I picked up almost by accident at Stefen's Books, since the two I had been considering were not in the shop. Silver on the Road, by Laura Anne Gilman; another alternate world/magic exists story which is rather hard to classify, taking place in what the book's characters call the Devil's West. The Devil himself runs a saloon, well, what else would he do in the American old west, or a version of it? Perfect place to make bargains with his people. Isobel has been living under his roof since she was a small child. Now, at sixteen, it is time for her to choose her bargain.
Anyway, I want to think about these two a bit more before I write a proper review, but they were very enjoyable. Silver is quite possibly the better book.
In a week's time I go on leave and will then have time to consider books and do some proper writing, though I'm still going with the Nano novel, which did not get completed or even up to 50,000 words in November, but I sort of suspected that might happen. November and December are killer months in the gulag. I'm tired with the sort of weariness that has built up over the year and doesn't fade with a couple of days off. People keep asking what I'm doing for Christmas, but since I will have been on leave only one day when that rolls around, the answer is still nothing.
My mother is going to visit my brother and his family and presumably they'll do the whole Christmas thing. Me, I'll wait till New Year's and the party I'll be heading to then. That's the real celebration.