Category: Books
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Because pre-ordering books is love ebook roundup
Latest book roundup! Several new releases from Carina, as well as pre-orders from Jeffe Kennedy, Joshua Palmatier, and MOST importantly, C.E. Murphy! AND, bonus dystopian SF set in Quebec!
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Multi-lingual OH hey I got ebook credit! book roundup
My latest roundup of books acquired, thanks to an influx of surprise credit from a recent ebook settlement. Special honorable mention goes to “Ah shit, j’ai pogné le cancer” by Maude Schiltz, my first non-fiction book I’m attempting to read in Quebecois French!
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Going back to Canada second week in a row book roundup!
Quite the assortment of books I’ve picked up lately! See anything on my list that sounds like it might want to be on yours?
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Gift card ebook roundup post
Spending some gift card credit to put a dent in my ebook wishlist. YAY!
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Hurray! I met Rachel Caine!
And now for today’s major reason I was happy to avert the threat of the bug from work: rachelcaine had a reading tonight at Third Place Books. As I’ve been a fan of her Weather Warden books for a while and as Third Place is literally right down the hill from my house, I pretty…
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Fictionwise ain’t quite dead to me yet
It seems Fictionwise is still capable of grabbing my attention, even if a lot of their inventory vanished once the agency model of ebook pricing took effect this past April. This weekend, though, they’re having a big ol’ 50 percent off sale, in effect through Sunday. (Use the coupon ‘spooky2010′.) Turns out several of the…
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The only acceptable use for DRM
I’d been aware for some time that a lot of libraries had embraced the ability to check out ebooks, but not until this weekend did I get around to actually trying it. I was quite pleased to discover that both of our local libraries, the Seattle Public Library and the King County Library System, provide…
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How much does my To Read list weigh?
I was saying something on the MurkMUSH about how I had 690 things on my To Read list, like I do, and to my amusement technoshaman said that I’d have to look out–or else my To Read list was going to eventually weigh more than I do. I told him I thought it probably already…
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Book buying catchup
Purchased or acquired electronically: Unlocked, a freebie anthology available over here Enchanting the Lady, by Kathryne Kennedy. Freebie historical/paranormal romance from B&N. Warrior, by Zoe Archer. Historical/paranormal romance, previously mentioned as the book with the cover hero who mugged Indiana Jones for his clothes. 😉 Scoundrel, also by Zoe Archer, book 2 of the same…
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Zoe Archer, you have my Attention
So the fine ladies over at Smart Bitches have been doing a book club thing lately, and their latest title is Scoundrel, by Zoe Archer. They posted about it this morning, and as soon as I saw the blurb and the cover, I knew I was going to have to read it. To wit: And…