I love to post the books I buy, to inspire others as part of my biblio-evangelism. So for the curious among you, some purchases from the past few weeks:
Fantasy:
Ysabel, Guy Gavriel Kay
The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden, Catherynne Valente
Brokedown Palace, Steven Brust
Dark Of The Gods, P. C. Hodgell
Seeker's Mask, P. C. Hodgell
Solstice Wood, Patricia A. McKillip
Science Fiction:
A Million Open Doors (Giraut), John Barnes
Earth Made of Glass (Giraut), John Barnes
The Merchants of Souls (Giraut), John Barnes
Mother of Storms, John Barnes
Vast, Linda Nagata
The Man Who Melted, Jack Dann
Idolon, Mark Budz
Graphic Novels: (especially good to read when tired from treatment)
Girl Genius Volume 1, Phil Foglio
Girl Genius Volume 2, Kaja Foglio, et al
Transmetropolitan Vol. 1, Warren Ellis
Transmetropolitan Vol. 2, Warren Ellis
Non-Fiction:
Size of the World, Jeff Greenwald
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia, Elizabeth Gilbert
Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives, George Lakoff
Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff
Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book:4th Edition 2005, Susan M. Love
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Vivian Pinn
Cancer Vixen: A True Story, Marisa Acocella Marchetto
For gifts: (2) Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics, Miriam Engelberg
To Hopefully Counteract Any Cognitive Loss from Treatment:
Sudoku Easy Volume 1: 100 Wordless Crossword Puzzles, Will Shortz
Special Treat:
Bose® QuietComfort® 2 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® Headphones
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Book Haul!
4 comments:
Speaking of biblio-evangelism, have you found yourself evangelizing to people about you eBook much? I find myself doing it all the time. Where I work, I sometimes go out to local restraunts for lunch, and I usually eat alone. So I'm reading my eBook while I'm reading, especially since I don't have to hold it. I can eat with both hands and just push the button to change pages. I've lost count of how many waiters and waitresses I've explained it to, and how many have thought it was really cool. Also, if I end up sitting at a bar, my neighbors usually ask me about it to. I figure I've given eBookwise at least a couple hundred bucks worth of free advertising. =)
Yes, I show off my Sony Reader every opportunity I get! I plan to write a post about it soon, especially since John Barnes wrote about it in the most recent Locus Magazine.
Great title - The Man Who Melted
Isn't it?! I can't wait to read it. It was originally written in 1984. From the publisher: The Man Who Melted examines how technology affects us and changes our morality, and it questions how we might remain human in an inhuman world. Will the future disenfranchise or empower the individual? Here you’ll find new forms of sexuality, new perversions, new epiphanies, and an entirely new form of consciousness.
In this dystopia the Titanic is brought back from the bottom of the sea and refurbished, only to be sunk again for those who want the ultimate decadent experience. Some passengers pay to commit suicide by "going under" with the ship.
The Man Who Melted has been called "one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time" by Science Fiction Age and is considered a genre classic. It is the stunning odyssey of a man searching through the glittering, apocalyptic landscape of the next century for a woman lost to him in a worldwide outbreak of telepathic fear. Here is a terrifying future where people can gamble away their hearts (and other organs) and telepathically taste the last flickering thoughts.
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