New to my physical shelves (fake links):
Shadow Walkers by Brent Hartinger. This is paranormal romance gay YA, and the opening reminds me a lot of being on an island in Lake Erie.
Born of Shadows by Sherrilyn Kenyon. This is a big fat hardcover that a friend of mine scooped up at RWA Nationals-- the first Kenyon I've read. Intriguing start so far . . .
The Full Spectrum edited by David Levithan and Billy Merrell. This is a non-fiction anthology of essays by LGBTQ youth - powerful and painful, very well done.
New to my Nook:
Harry Connelly's Child of Fire, scooped up for 99 cents. I have the paperback already but this was a bargain, and it's a great read - fast-paced urban fantasy with a male lead.
Irresistible Forces by Brenda Jackson. Another bargain, and Jackson is a popular romance writer. She's also local here to Jacksonville, though I've never crossed paths (well, Jacksonville is 800 square miles big, so no surprise...)
Plus I added in 3 Borges stories, 5 more SGA fanfics (oh my am I rediscovering my Rodney and John love!) and Lois Bujold's The Warrior's Apprentice (free from the Baen library).
Reading, reading, reading! What are you reading?
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Saturday, July 30, 2011
Friday, July 8, 2011
Loving my Nook
There are 4 types of reading material on my Nook:
1. Subscriptions to MacLife and Asimov's
2. Sample books
3. Books I've purchased
4. Fanfic
The biggest category is the fanfiction - story length, novella length, and novel length. Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Inception, Torchwood and even some Merlin. Either I download them from the marvelous Archive of our Own, or from the Ebook Library or I copy and paste into Sigil (thanks Jenn!>). So far I've got about 60 of my favorite works and I'm very happy to re-read them time and time again.
Book purchases - well, I've got Greg van Eekhout and Nick Mamatas and Michael Faber and Megan McDonald and a bunch of others, but here's the thing - my purchase limit is 4.99. More than that, it goes on the wish list for later. I can't sell the ebook back at the used book store or a yard sale, so I'm a lot pickier about what I spend the money on. I needed a copy of Pat Conroy's The Lords of Discipline and the ebook was 9.99, a used copy 2.99 at the store. So hello used copy!
I'm a sucker for many ebooks at 0.99 and 1.99, that's for sure.
Magazines - well, now that I'm not in SFWA anymore I would buy the Bulletin, but it doesn't seem available. Clarkesworld is available on Kindle but not Nook yet. I would love to get Tin House but alas.
The sample books are actually for studying openings of bestsellers. I don't usually buy them, but I can study structure, tension, mood, etc.
I heart my Nook more than I thought I would.
1. Subscriptions to MacLife and Asimov's
2. Sample books
3. Books I've purchased
4. Fanfic
The biggest category is the fanfiction - story length, novella length, and novel length. Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Inception, Torchwood and even some Merlin. Either I download them from the marvelous Archive of our Own, or from the Ebook Library or I copy and paste into Sigil (thanks Jenn!>). So far I've got about 60 of my favorite works and I'm very happy to re-read them time and time again.
Book purchases - well, I've got Greg van Eekhout and Nick Mamatas and Michael Faber and Megan McDonald and a bunch of others, but here's the thing - my purchase limit is 4.99. More than that, it goes on the wish list for later. I can't sell the ebook back at the used book store or a yard sale, so I'm a lot pickier about what I spend the money on. I needed a copy of Pat Conroy's The Lords of Discipline and the ebook was 9.99, a used copy 2.99 at the store. So hello used copy!
I'm a sucker for many ebooks at 0.99 and 1.99, that's for sure.
Magazines - well, now that I'm not in SFWA anymore I would buy the Bulletin, but it doesn't seem available. Clarkesworld is available on Kindle but not Nook yet. I would love to get Tin House but alas.
The sample books are actually for studying openings of bestsellers. I don't usually buy them, but I can study structure, tension, mood, etc.
I heart my Nook more than I thought I would.
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