Books that joined my to "one-day-be re-read-pile":
Robin Sloan's Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore series and Nina George's The Little Paris Bookshop.
All three books are too strange to be considered fiction and not strange enough to be considered urban fantasy. .
"And finally, I will write down everything that happened. I'll copy some of it from the logbook, find more in old emails and text messages, and reconstitute the rest from memory. I'll get Penumbra to look it over, then find a publisher and set it out for sale in all the places you find books these days: big Barnes & Nobles, bright Pygmalion, the quiet little store built into the Kindle.
You will hold this book in your hands, and learn all the things I learned, right along with me:
There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this:
A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time."
"Books are more than doctors, of course. Some novels are loving, lifelong companions; some give you a clip around the ear; others are friends who wrap you in warm towels when you've got those autumn blues. And some...well, some are pink candy floss that tingles in your brain for three seconds and leaves a blissful voice. Like a short, torrid love affair."
On Sun, Sep 3, 2017 at 8:49 AM, 'Michelle Abate' via Tamson House <tamson-house@googlegroups.com> wrote:
The Witchwood Crown by Tad Williams. I just started it yesterday.Michelle
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--LaurieAs for what's next...well, I suppose that depends, in part, on what I purchase tomorrow when my best friend and I run up to Buffalo for the specific purpose of visiting Barnes & Noble in person.This afternoon I started The Autobiography of James T. Kirk which is surprisingly good. I'm only a few pages into it and I'm already starting to forget that it's about a fictional character. Which is silly, but there you go. It's original timeline, by the way, Kirk as portrayed by William Shatner. There are even photographs in the middle of the book -- most of them are from promo photos or stills from episodes.I know Our Patron is coming out with a new book shortly, but what's everyone reading right now?I just finished a collection of Lord Peter Wimsey mystery stories. At first I was disappointed in it because I had heard good things about the character and series and thought I was getting a NOVEL collection. Oops. Once I realized my mistake, I enjoyed them, though, and will pick up the novels later.
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