amazon orders.

Just placed two orders. Split into two because a few had the irritating tendency to be "ships in 10-14 days" or whatever. Lame. But whatever.

Potion Study
Magic Study
Fire Study
Storm Glass
Sea Glass
Spy Glass
- All by Maria V. Snyder. They sound delightful, and they're all 400+ pages. 2400 worth of pages inside one world (one trilogy focuses on one set of characters, the next on a new set)? Tres bonne.

Snow White and Rose Red
Sorcery and Cecelia
The Thirteenth Child
- All by Patricia Wrede. I recently read Mairelon the Magician and the Magician's Ward (wish I hadn't lent it to my grandmother so I could be re-reading it, not that I don't have a stack of re-reads left until these new orders come). DELIGHTFUL. In that delightful sense that when you're reading it you know you're going to re-read it again and again and again because it's just that lovely.

I was considering purchasing this historical dragon fantasy - but I was a little leery as it was kind of too science fictiony/warish... not sure I'd read it and it reminded me that I really need to finish or at least try to finish Game of Thrones. ANd if I can't to return Clash of Kings if still possible.

I'm finding it kind of hard to get into. I can't get too attached to the characters.

what I like

Here is what I like in books:

- magic. Some kind of magic. It can be necromancy, it can be graces, it can be in the form of guilds, it can require wands or fingers or toes, but it's magic.
- length. I've come to resent any book that's less than 300 pages long for not letting me live in it long enough. I read (un?)fortunately fast though, so this is just a quirk. I've also started searching for series' or authors that write companion books so I don't have to leave a world after just one book.
- completeness. I hate reading series without the next ones being published. Of course, I can't resist, I'm waiting on the next Sweep book, the next Mortal Instruments/Infernal Devices book, the next Heroes of Olympus books, the next Curse workers books, etc, etc, etc. I just don't LIKE it.
- the people who I like MUST SURVIVE or I get upset. Sometimes if they aren't dead for very long or the dying isn't dwelt on, I can handle it by pretending they aren't really dead. No. They're not dead. Just... not showing up in the book. I think it's ridiculous to make me fall for a character and then kill them off. Enough of that in real life.
- Speaking of falling, let's have an adorable romance blossom. Yes? Yes.

ex libris

Here is where I read books and I tell you what ones are awesome and what ones are awful.