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March 2012

Books

And now, a multinational book roundup!

Purchased in print at the Chapters in Vancouver, on my and Dara’s Grand Four-Day Weekend of Marriage and Music:

  • The Rose Garden, by Susanna Kearsley. Historical/romance. And because she’s Susanna Kearsley!
  • River Thieves, by Michael Crummey. Grabbed this because it’s fiction set in Newfoundland, and because The Doyle Himself tweeted about it. We’ll see if it’s good!

Also purchased in print, once I got back from Canada, from my local B&N:

  • Discount Armageddon, by Seanan McGuire. Because, well, userinfoseanan_mcguire is in general awesome. Looking forward to starting this new series, along with getting caught up on the Toby Daye books!

And, picked up as ebooks:

  • The Rose Garden, again by Susanna Kearsley. Yes, I bought it twice. Because the paperback is large and I’ll be better able to read the ebook on my commute, and also, B&N had it on sale for 2.99!
  • Crucible of Gold, by Naomi Novik. Because TEMERAIRE.

Up to 30 for the year.

March 10, 2012 by
Bone Walker, Faerie Blood

Have you read Faerie Blood? Want to blurb my Kickstarter?

Kickstarter update time, people!

I’m deep in talks with my cover artist to finalize reward levels, and decide on tasty, tasty rewards to offer you guys (I ain’t going into public details yet, but you may assume that the words ‘cover art’ and ‘prints’ are being liberally thrown around in this conversation). And I’ve got to think about what the hell to put into a video for this thing before I submit it to the Kickstarter people for review!

But this is a potential point for you, yes YOU, O Internets, to come in even before the Kickstarter gets off the ground!

If you’ve read Faerie Blood, I need your help. I’d love, love, love to have brief pithy reader reaction blurbs I could quote on the Kickstarter’s project page. Funny quotes would be especially awesome! Really funny quotes I’d also be eying as potential fodder to be read out loud, by yours truly, in the project video.

So if you want in on this, talk to me! Anybody who contributes a suitable reader reaction quote will totally get something shiny out of the Kickstarter rewards pool!

March 10, 2012 by
Music, Quebecois Music

Festival du Bois in Maillardville, BC, 3/3/2012

Day 3 of my and Dara’s Grand Four-Day Weekend of Marriage and Music was Festival du Bois!

I wanted to go to this pretty much as soon as I found out that there was an entire festival of French Canadian and Acadian music going on the very same weekend we were coming up for Le Vent–and, of course, it made utter sense that the concert was being held in conjunction with the festival in question! We wound up only going on Saturday instead of both days, but nonetheless, the one day turned out to be quite fun indeed.

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March 6, 2012 by
Quebecois Music

Le Vent du Nord concert sneak peek

The full extended play by play concert blog post is on the way, O Internets, but until I get back to my computer and can write it up properly (with pics because OH MY YES userinfosolarbird got some), let me share with you some prominent highlights!

  1. Dara being stunned to be able to use the phrase “bitchin’ metal hurdy-gurdy solo”
  2. Serious La Danse Verticale once the second set started and the show’s host and the band themselves started encouraging people to come up and dance
  3. Dancing with my girl, and singing along, while Simon Beaudry sang “Écris-moi”!
  4. I had a Cunning Plan come to fruition when the band came back out for the encore, and sang “Vive l’amour” for me and Dara and userinfomaellenkleth and userinfosiestabear! And Dara was all “what did you do?!” and I chirped “Surprise!” and then OMG champagne showed up, because fellow Le Vent fan Susan is made ENTIRELY OF AWESOME.
  5. And because M. Olivier Demers is also made entirely of awesome from his mighty fiddling hands down to his stompy, stompy feet, I made a point of going over to thank him to his face for the band’s participation in the aforementioned Cunning Plan! And he gave me and Dara and maellenkleth all hugs and the very French air kiss to each cheek!

Stand by for the full report in technicolor glory on Sunday!

March 2, 2012 by