Books

Picked up in print:

• Harmony, by Project Itoh. SF. Grabbed this in print because it’s up for a Seiun Award in Japan, and so that solarbird could read it too, since it’s not available for the nook.
• Hidden Cities, by Daniel Fox. Fantasy. Grabbed this in print because desperance, like mizkit, is Awesome. ^_^
• Haunting Jordan and Ghost Ship, by P.J. Alderman. The same books I mentioned as ebook purchases in my last roundup–because I decided I liked these two books enough that I wanted them in my print library too!

Electronically, from B&N:

• God’s War, by Kameron Hurley. SF. Grabbed it since it was available for free this weekend on bn.com!
• Line of Sight, by Rachel Caine. Romantic Suspense. I’d previously bought this Athena Force book from Stanza’s Fictionwise site, but now that that site’s shut down, I wanted this in my nook catalogue.
• Devil’s Bargain, by Rachel Caine. Romantic Suspense. Same as previous.
• Death Echo, by Elizabeth Lowell. Romantic Suspense. Bought because I love me some Elizabeth Lowell, and this is her latest, finally available electronically at mass market price.
• The Sword-Edged Blonde, by Alex Bledsoe. Fantasy. Bought because bn.com had it for cheap at 2.99, and because the melding of detective noir and fantasy sounded like fun.

Up to 71 for the year. I think I need to pause and read for a while! And I need to write some reviews, too. I’ve finally caught up on 2010 reviews, so I can start the 2011 reviews now!

ETA: Whoops, in organizing my ebook library I found another freebie I’d scarfed from B&N and forgotten to add a couple weeks ago: Bone Rattler: A Mystery of Colonial America. Period mystery that sounds like fun. Which puts me at 72.

Picked up in print:

• Spirit Dances, by mizkit who is Awesome. Urban fantasy, Book 6 of the Walker Papers, which I am greatly looking forward to reading on general grounds of mmmmmmmmMorrison.

And, electronically from B&N:

• Spirit Dances, again! Since Kit comes with so much Awesome, it cannot be contained in one format! Pre-ordered since it’s not actually out electronically till Friday.
• Huntress, by Malinda Lo. YA/Fantasy. This is her followup to last year’s delightful Ash, and is set in the same universe. Another pre-order; it’s out for real next week.
• Haunting Jordan and Ghost Ship, Books 1 and 2 of P.J. Alderman’s Port Chatham series of cozy mysteries. Which, I might add, I have already now read! They were an impulse buy when I was in the downtown B&N the other night, and I was all “oh hey cozy mystery with ghosts set in a Pacific Northwest town, this sounds like fun!” Turned out to be enough fun that I burned through both books very quickly.
• Village Affairs, by Cassandra Chan. Mystery, Book 2 of her Gibbons-Bethancourt series. Which I have also already read; bought electronically now because it was finally available and I wanted it in my library.
• The Art of Seducing a Naked Werewolf, by Molly Harper. Paranormal romance. This is the second book in the series started by How to Flirt With a Naked Werewolf, which I liked well enough that I have yea and verily pounced on Book 2.

From Kobo:

• Touch, by Gayleen Froese. Suspense. Bought on the grounds that this is a friend of my fellow Drollerie author thunderpigeon, and the writing came highly recommended, and because YAY it finally is available electronically.
• Girl from Mars, by Julie Cohen. Fiction/probably chick lit? Bought on the grounds that it was favorably reviewed by the Smart Bitches and I’ve been wanting to check it out. Again, YAY, finally available electronically!

And lastly, from Smashwords:

• Shadow Man, by Melissa Scott. SF. Bought because I heard about this on the Outer Alliance list, a novel in a future society where there are five, count ’em, five genders–but on one world, one must choose to be a man or a woman, and the protagonist is neither. Am interested in this to see what it does with gender and sexual identity.

Yes folks, this is why I shop from a variety of places for my ebooks! And that brings me up to 62 for the year. Yes, I’m counting Kit twice. Because I’m buying her twice!

This being the first post I’m making now that I’ve got WordPress 3.1 installed, woo! Which has absolutely nothing to do with books, I’m just noting it for the record.

And now, some books! In print:

• Steam-Powered: Lesbian Steampunk Stories, edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft. Noting this again on the grounds that my print copy has shown up, so now I have a nice trade paperback edition for my shelves.
• The Likeness, by Tana French. Mystery. This is French’s second novel in her Dublin Murder Squad series. Buying in print on the grounds that I quite liked her first novel, and the ebook prices are on par with the trades, so screw it, buying in print.

Meanwhile, over in ebook land:

• Year of Miracles, by C.E. Murphy. Crowd-sourced work the awesome mizkit did for those of us who really like her Negotiator series. If you can’t get enough of Kit’s work, keep an eye out for further projects from her!
• The Scales of Justice, by Fred M. White. This is actually a freebie I slurped down off of Project Gutenberg Australia, to which I was alerted by eeyorerin, who spoke highly of the amounts of delicious wtfery in this story.
• Northlight, by Deborah J. Ross. Fantasy. Re-release on Book View Cafe of a title published in the nineties, now with a new introduction by the author.
• Making the Rules, by Doranna Durgin. Romantic suspense. Previously orphaned Bombshell that went with a couple other Bombshells Durgin did, and bought because I’m a completist!
• Storm of Reckoning, by Doranna Durgin. Paranormal romance. Book 2 of her Reckoners series.
• Blackout, by Connie Willis. SF. Bought because lots of good buzz about it and it sounds like fun–time-travel into WWII plot.
• Kraken, by China Miéville. SF. Bought because I really need to get my Miéville on.
• Keeping Watch, by Laurie R. King. Mystery. Followup novel to Folly, which I read not too long ago, and which I quite enjoyed.
• Son of the Shadows, by Juliet Marillier. Fantasy. Book 2 of that series, and a re-buy of a book previously owned in print.
• Second Skin, by Caitlin Kittredge. Book 3 of her Nocturne City series, and a re-buy of a book previously owned in print.

This brings me up to 37 for the year.