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Crusader · 02-10-2011, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Iridal

Hmm, I hope you're not right. I preordered at The Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9780575077010/ It says '8 days to go'.

But Amazon says 17 november

Ugh, I was really looking forward to that book

It could be that it's an earlier release date for the UK. I found some novels get released in the UK a couple of month before the US release. Mostly for UK authors through.

Iridal · 02-10-2011, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by phenomshel

Don't feel bad, Iridal, or at least accept my sympathy. The ebook pub date on the next Dresden title has been pushed back from March to JULY. I was NOT a happy person when I found that out.

Thanks Shel! You have my sympathy as well

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Originally Posted by Crusader

It could be that it's an earlier release date for the UK. I found some novels get released in the UK a couple of month before the US release. Mostly for UK authors through.

Could be, I haven't given up hope yet! It wouldn't make sense for the Book Depository not to change release dates. There are also multiple versions for sale, the earliest is released on Feb 17th, than in May, November and March next year.

Jcas · 02-10-2011, 03:22 AM

Currently reading The Mirror by Marlys Millhiser.

Couldn't get it in ebook so reading a PB, loving the story but going back to PB's is awful.

phenomshel · 02-10-2011, 03:44 AM

I decided on A Discovery of Witches. Three hours in (and this is a 608 page book, in hardback pages), and I'm totally hooked and fascinated.

DiapDealer · 02-10-2011, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Iridal

Could be, I haven't given up hope yet! It wouldn't make sense for the Book Depository not to change release dates. There are also multiple versions for sale, the earliest is released on Feb 17th, than in May, November and March next year.

Linky to an article by someone "in the know" (and who's from the UK).

Iridal · 02-10-2011, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Linky to an article by someone "in the know" (and who's from the UK).

But thanks for the link. I didn't know Scott Lynch was ill, I really hope he'll be around to write more amazing books.

Well, I've decided on reading Fool Moon first, the second Dresden book by Jim Butcher. I had to wait for my copy of Nyphron Rising to arrive in my mailbox, so that one's next.

DiapDealer · 02-10-2011, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Iridal

But thanks for the link. I didn't know Scott Lynch was ill, I really hope he'll be around to write more amazing books.

He's been battling a severe case of clinical depression. He's been pretty open about it. I hope he gets his life straightened out... for his own sake and for the sake of fans who have fallen in love with his gentleman bastards.

Phebe · 02-10-2011, 09:52 AM

I'm reading Footsteps in the Dark, a Georgette Heyer mystery: I thought I had read them all by 30 years ago, but now that the Heyers are all apparently being reissued, books I haven't read by her keep turning up! She only wrote 50, so this has to end at some point, but I don't think I've read the newly reissued Arabella, either, a Regency romance.

I am consolidating everything on the Kindle app for iPad because iTunes has so few book listings for ebooks compared to Amazon. The page-turning is much more beautiful on the Apple ebooks, but I get tired of them never having anything. If it's out there, Amazon has it, and that includes the free stuff and classics, usually in multiple editions.

Now if only the Kindle app will start allowing categorizing books like the Apple app just did this week!!!! I have separate bookcases at home for different categories of books, why not in my elibrary.

SeaBookGuy · 02-10-2011, 11:38 AM

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham has gotten better, now that we're into his rather complex personal life, not an expanded bibliography of his output.

The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are, on the other hand, is proving overall kind of dry.

I must be on a real curmudgeon streak these days - Just as Well I'm Leaving: To the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen is mildly disappointing. The blurb on the front of my copy proclaims Booth is "funnier than Bryson"; I've mostly fallen-out-of-love with Bill B. so that didn't mean much to me - this one's not bad, though the humor seems forced at times. Andersen was quite the eccentric character!

jgaiser · 02-10-2011, 11:48 AM

I'm having a terrible time finding time to read anything recently and even when I find the time, I can't seem to find anything that interests me.

Recently, though, I picked up a copy of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon and find myself devouring the book. Maybe I'll finally finish a book this month.

MickeyC · 02-10-2011, 12:39 PM

Just finished Mr Paradise by Elmore Leonard and starting The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene which, if I understand the reviews correctly, I'll be reading in another universe.

Falbe Publishing · 02-10-2011, 12:51 PM

I'm currently reading Demon Lord by T.C. Southwell. It's free at Smashwords and I'm really enjoying it. It's fantasy.

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/33733

WT Sharpe · 02-10-2011, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham has gotten better, now that we're into his rather complex personal life, not an expanded bibliography of his output....

This post has nothing to do with the book quoted, except that the name Somerset in the title brings to mind another non-fiction book I read years ago by Dorothy Spruill Redford entitled Somerset Homecoming: Recovering a Lost Heritage (Amazon Kindle link here). It's about one woman's efforts to discover her heritage, and how it ultimately led to a very unusual family reunion that consisted of the descendants of the slaves and slave owners who populated the Somerset plantation (one of the largest plantations in the upper South). I've met the author, she's a wonderful lady, and I have a signed copy of her work in paperback (when living in Tidewater, she was a member the same Unitarian-Universalist church where I also hold a membership). She's currently the executive director of the Somerset Place State Historic Site in Creswell, North Carolina, where four generations of her enslaved ancestors lived and labored without pay.

I like to think Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been proud of her. Although it wasn't in Georgia, she orchestrated a moment in history where truly "the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners" were "able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood."

The book is well-written and I highly recommend it. The Somerset Place historical site is located near Creswell, North Carolina. I've only been there once, but hope one day to return.

Crusader · 02-10-2011, 01:51 PM

Busy with Rock Rats, the second novel in the Asteroid Wars series. Not bad, but not as good as the first one.

teadonkey · 02-10-2011, 08:13 PM

I've been reading The Choice by Suzanne Fisher. It's free for Kindle right now. (That's the Amazon link.) I've wanted to try out this new Amish fiction that's been getting popular. The first one I read I didn't like, but this one I've been really liking. I'm almost done.

02-10-2011, 11:38 AM	#8214
SeaBookGuy Can one read too much? Posts: 2,029 Karma: 2487799 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Naples, FL Device: Kindle PW 3, Sony 350 and 650	Warning: NON-FICTION ahead!!! The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham has gotten better, now that we're into his rather complex personal life, not an expanded bibliography of his output. The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are, on the other hand, is proving overall kind of dry. I must be on a real curmudgeon streak these days - Just as Well I'm Leaving: To the Orient with Hans Christian Andersen is mildly disappointing. The blurb on the front of my copy proclaims Booth is "funnier than Bryson"; I've mostly fallen-out-of-love with Bill B. so that didn't mean much to me - this one's not bad, though the humor seems forced at times. Andersen was quite the eccentric character!

02-10-2011, 11:48 AM	#8215
jgaiser Omnivorous Posts: 3,283 Karma: 27978909 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Rural NW Oregon Device: Kindle Voyage, Kindle Fire HD, Kindle 3, KPW1	I'm having a terrible time finding time to read anything recently and even when I find the time, I can't seem to find anything that interests me. Recently, though, I picked up a copy of Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon and find myself devouring the book. Maybe I'll finally finish a book this month. Last edited by jgaiser; 02-10-2011 at 11:57 AM.

02-10-2011, 12:51 PM	#8217
Falbe Publishing Gadget Slave Posts: 264 Karma: 600001 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Battle Creek, Michigan Device: Sony PRS505SC	Demon Lord I'm currently reading Demon Lord by T.C. Southwell. It's free at Smashwords and I'm really enjoying it. It's fantasy. http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/33733

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