Things Read or to read
Apr. 24th, 2010 08:57 pmI got The Silver Phoenix by Cindy Pon out of the library recently - it was recommended somewhere on my flist in the last year or so, and I figured I would get it out when I saw it. It's a nice, fairly light, non-Western coming-of-age in a fantasy setting young adult book. It was fun, but I'm not going to buy it. Although our here (an unmarried woman of seventeen) almost does something stupid in the usual fashion, but doesn't end up doing so, which was a nice change.
Something I read today that I will be buying when it comes out in paperback is an anthology called The Dragon Book, which has short stories in it by people such as Naomi Novik, Kage Baker, Peter S. Beagle, Diana Gabaldon and Samuel Sykes, Garth Nix, Tamora Pierce, and other well-known and not so well-known names in fantasy. I would buy it just for the Naomi Novik and Tamora Pierce short stories (Skysong, whee!), but the others are pretty good, too.
Robin McKinley's website tells me that she has a novel called Pegasus coming out in November this year. By the summary, if it was anyone but McKinley...
And then, of course, CyroBurn comes out later this year, and I have the dilemma of whether to buy it straight away in hardback, although the rest of my Vorkosigan books are paperback, or wait, or buy it anyway and replace it with a paperback later, or replace all my paperbacks with hardbacks, although some of the paperbacks are signed... decisions, decisions.
I think I'll leave off reading for a while, and go watch something on a competely different level, but still made of awesome (and is hilarious): Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Something I read today that I will be buying when it comes out in paperback is an anthology called The Dragon Book, which has short stories in it by people such as Naomi Novik, Kage Baker, Peter S. Beagle, Diana Gabaldon and Samuel Sykes, Garth Nix, Tamora Pierce, and other well-known and not so well-known names in fantasy. I would buy it just for the Naomi Novik and Tamora Pierce short stories (Skysong, whee!), but the others are pretty good, too.
Robin McKinley's website tells me that she has a novel called Pegasus coming out in November this year. By the summary, if it was anyone but McKinley...
And then, of course, CyroBurn comes out later this year, and I have the dilemma of whether to buy it straight away in hardback, although the rest of my Vorkosigan books are paperback, or wait, or buy it anyway and replace it with a paperback later, or replace all my paperbacks with hardbacks, although some of the paperbacks are signed... decisions, decisions.
I think I'll leave off reading for a while, and go watch something on a competely different level, but still made of awesome (and is hilarious): Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire