I went to buy Queen of Sorcery on my nook and suddenly it is not available, nor is the rest of the Belgariad or the Mallorean.
They are available at Amazon. I personally use Calibre to upload my books as I like keeping a copy on hand. I appreciate the ease of downloading a book, but I like to have a copy for me.
For those that like mystery, I finished Mr. Lucky by Jim Swain. His day job is catching gambling cheaters. In this series, all of the plots are based on scams people have historically used. A lot of fun to read.
Actually, they are no longer available at Amazon in the US, I checked last night. The only Belgariad related book that is still available in eBook format is The Rivan Codex.
Actually, they are no longer available at Amazon in the US, I checked last night. The only Belgariad related book that is still available in eBook format is The Rivan Codex.
Weird. I wonder why they were pulled. This is just another reason why I have mine saved to my hard disk. And for whatever reason, Gary, when I looked I have the Elenium and Tamuli also. Don't ask. I don't remember when I bought them or even where.
Actually, they are no longer available at Amazon in the US, I checked last night. The only Belgariad related book that is still available in eBook format is The Rivan Codex.
Gary, they are available via the Amazon UK store. If you look at the publisher on the "new" covers, they are published by Transworld Digital, a UK publisher. I don't know what this means for the US store.
In the pipeline is William Boyd's Solo and Yoko Ogawa's Hotel Iris, as well as the rest of her book of related short stories, Revenge.
And the April issue of Empire.
Well, I read Solo and Hotel Iris. The latter was a beautifully concise, charmingly intriguing first person recounting of an unlikely tale that will stay with me for some while.
The other was a disappointing and overlong attempt to put James Bond back into the 60s which will I'm sure delight many readers but left this one wishing that Kingsley Amis had continued his all too brief involvement back, as they say, in the day.
I'm reading THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir. astronaut chap stranded on Mars and using his wits to survive. It's very technical but i find it all interesting. I can't see how they'd make it into a film, so i'm looking forward to seeing the Ridley Scott/Matt Damon film to see how they get through all the reams of technical stuff, and what they keep and lose. I'm only 100 pages in, but it's good stuff.
I'm reading THE MARTIAN by Andy Weir. astronaut chap stranded on Mars and using his wits to survive. It's very technical but i find it all interesting. I can't see how they'd make it into a film, so i'm looking forward to seeing the Ridley Scott/Matt Damon film to see how they get through all the reams of technical stuff, and what they keep and lose. I'm only 100 pages in, but it's good stuff.
Currently almost done Ask the Posts of the House by Witi Ihimaera, a prominent Maori writer (he wrote Whale Rider on which the movie was based) who seems to be at home with both Maori and, ahem, Pakeha culture. The stories here demonstrate his range, from autobiographical drama and comedy to (really bad) science fiction to historical fiction and myth. Aside from the sci-fi story there's lots to like here.
Also almost done Emma Bull's War for the Oaks.
Just getting started Kao Kalia Yang's The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir and Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice. And Hanya Yanagihara's A Little Life, which is a big book that I don't really have time to get into but I've heard it's really great. And Zoe Whittall's Holding Still for as Long as Possible.
And on and on.
One can never be in the middle of too many good books!
Since finishing The Dutch Shoe Mystery I have read the following:
Killer Cupcakes by Leighann Dobbs Kitty and the Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn Lost City by Jeffrey Poole Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger Murder Bites the Bullet by Deb Baker Waistcoats & Weaponry by Gail Carriger Three Doors to Death by Rex Stout Queen of Sorcery by David Eddings The Clockwork Wolf by Lynn Viehl Murder Trims the Tree by Deb Baker Sourcery (Discworld # 5) by Terry Pratchett Top of the Heap by Erle Stanley Gardner writing as A.A. Fair One Grave at a Time by Jeanienne Frost Poison Shake by Lisbeth Reade Phoenix Rising by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris Inheritance by John O'Riley
Four of the above qualify as either novellas or short stories Currently reading:
Secret of the Painted Lady by Christina Burke (The first in the Danger Cove Mystery Series)
It's brilliant. I cant wait for the film. I saw the trailer and it looks really great, so i bought the book. I read it in 2 sittings. Will definitely re-read again.
As always I'm in the middle of many books. Here are some of the most recent:
After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene (2015) by Jedediah Purdy -- seems to be less what the title suggest and more a history of ecological policy in America (or rather of how the ways we have understood nature have shaped the laws and policies that have made USA what it is today). Fascinating and sometimes brilliant.
Books in the War: The Romance of Library War Service (1919) by Theodore Wesley Koch -- Definitely glad I pulled this out of the library on a whim. Written during and after the US involvement in the first World War, it covers a lot of ground but in the first few chapters what really stands out is the development of the idea that soldiers need nourishment for their heads as well as their bodies, and this until this was has rarely if ever really been provided, and how welcome and essential the ALA's contributions in the military were to the soldiers.
If This Is a Woman — Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women (2015) by Sarah Helm -- one of my grandparents was a Holocaust survivor and this is one of two important new books about the concentration camps to have been published this year (the other being Nikolaus Wachsmann's KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps).
Also I've been reading through the various Star Wars: Journey to The Force Awakens books and comics, which have been of mixed quality. The comics have been pretty crappy, but the novels have been okay.
Frank: The Making Of A Legend by James Kaplan. Frank Sinatra's life until 1954. This must be the third book about Frank Sinatra I've read, I'm just fascinated by his life, in so many ways he was not a very nice guy. I'm enjoying this book, I found out about it when I read a book review of the sequel to this one, Sinatra: The Chairman, same author, his life from '54 to when he died. My local library should have it by the time I've read this one (both are very thick books).
Right now I'm reading In the Garden of the Beasts so far a fantastic historical novel (doesn't read like a typical history book) that gives me plenty of interesting characters. I'm also partially through Jo Nesbo's The Bat but haven't found it particularly engrossing enough to finish it. I recently finished The Girl in the Spider's Web and The Martian and found both were quite good. I gave up around half way through The Last Argument of Kings and don't expect to continue reading it. I'm also now on the third book in the Temeraire series in audiobook format. Fantastic series that takes you all over the globe. I also finished The Mockingkjay recently and found the ending to be disappointing after all the buildup and so anti-climactic. My Kindle messed up and I lost my spot in La Bruja de Portabello (in Spanish) so I haven't gotten back to reading it. I also gave up but might finish Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson at some point but it hasn't really pulled me in once it switched characters.
Can anyone suggest any other similar books to In the Garden of the Beasts for somewhat easy to read historical books that tell a good story based mostly on facts?
