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Moar Books!
Aug. 12th, 2008 06:43 amI finally got to use my Amazon giftcard (the one I got for my birthday in April). I'm sort of picky about books when I'm not buying them used. There's a difference between taking a chance on something when you're only paying a buck for it and taking a chance on something that's costing you eleven dollars.
I had to fight with Amazon, btw, so that my giftcard would cover the purchases because damn Amazon really, really wants your credit card number.
Still, I got my loot, which is as follows:
Ink & Steel by Elizabeth Bear
Hell & Earth by Elizabeth Bear
Cast in Secret by Michele Sagara
Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
The Fall of The Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
Five books on a fifty buck gift card is pretty impressive, if I do say so myself. I was going to get Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan, just for comparison reasons to Ink & Steel, but it put me over the limit and, frankly, I don't know the author well enough to pay out of pocket yet.
And when I tried to buy one of her other (cheaper) books, just to see what kind of author she might be, I couldn't figure out which book came first. Because her other books, in her other series, were Witch, Warrior and Witch, Warrior, and Doppelganger and ten minutes of browsing STILL didn't tell me what order they went in.
There was also some other book I was going to get, I don't remember the title/author, but when two or three reviewers commented that you needed to read the author's short story in that 'verse before being able to dive into the *first* novel of the series, I went, "Oh *hell* no." Bitch, please. I am not going to track down your short story, buy a book full of other stories I may or may not even care about, just to understand the first novel of a series.
In fact, if I need to do anything other than open the book and being reading to understand the first novel of a series, I am officially chucking you in the bin. Again, I say: bitch, puh-lease.
Still, I'm very happy with my literary loot and am trying to feverishly to finish the last hundred page of Queen Isabella so my dance card is free when Hell & Earth gets here on Friday or Saturday.
Oh, and I have a book icon! Feel free to borrow or steal it (with credit given)!
I had to fight with Amazon, btw, so that my giftcard would cover the purchases because damn Amazon really, really wants your credit card number.
Still, I got my loot, which is as follows:
Ink & Steel by Elizabeth Bear
Hell & Earth by Elizabeth Bear
Cast in Secret by Michele Sagara
Wreck This Journal by Keri Smith
The Fall of The Kings by Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
Five books on a fifty buck gift card is pretty impressive, if I do say so myself. I was going to get Midnight Never Come by Marie Brennan, just for comparison reasons to Ink & Steel, but it put me over the limit and, frankly, I don't know the author well enough to pay out of pocket yet.
And when I tried to buy one of her other (cheaper) books, just to see what kind of author she might be, I couldn't figure out which book came first. Because her other books, in her other series, were Witch, Warrior and Witch, Warrior, and Doppelganger and ten minutes of browsing STILL didn't tell me what order they went in.
There was also some other book I was going to get, I don't remember the title/author, but when two or three reviewers commented that you needed to read the author's short story in that 'verse before being able to dive into the *first* novel of the series, I went, "Oh *hell* no." Bitch, please. I am not going to track down your short story, buy a book full of other stories I may or may not even care about, just to understand the first novel of a series.
In fact, if I need to do anything other than open the book and being reading to understand the first novel of a series, I am officially chucking you in the bin. Again, I say: bitch, puh-lease.
Still, I'm very happy with my literary loot and am trying to feverishly to finish the last hundred page of Queen Isabella so my dance card is free when Hell & Earth gets here on Friday or Saturday.
Oh, and I have a book icon! Feel free to borrow or steal it (with credit given)!
