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Tom the Merciful

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Fresh from bookstore.

I just succumbed to the hype and bought Justin Cronin's The Passage. There was a "buy 3, pay 2" sales action, so I took GRRM's Dreamsongs 1 and 2.

Swords and Dark Magic, JV Jones' Watcher of the Dead and ASOIAF 2010 calendar are sitting in my cart on bookdepository.com and I'll trigger them tomorrow, so they show on my next month's bill.

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I just succumbed to the hype and bought Justin Cronin's The Passage. There was a "buy 3, pay 2" sales action, so I took GRRM's Dreamsongs 1 and 2. :drunk:

I went to the bookshop today as well. I was half-considering buying The Passage as well, and maybe Ken Macleod's The Restoration Game. However, I ended up buying neither of them, and instead got Ian McDonald's The Dervish House, Charlie Stross' The Fuller Memorandum and Adrian Tchaikovsky's The Scarab Path. There was a 3-for-2 offer on, but it didn't include The Passage and they didn't have the Macleod so I ended up buying the other three instead.

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My MiL asked me what I wanted for my Name Day and I gave her a list of books to pick from. She got me Kraken by China Mieville, The Passage by Justin Cronin and Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. She made me wait the whole two weeks she was here and she only gave me the books on the last evening, but that's ok. It's not as if I could read them with her here.

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I just bought:

Wild Child and other stories: TC Boyle

Sympathy for the Devil anthology, just out from Night Shade

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand ( mainstream fiction, liked the sample chapters)

Leviathan-Scott Westerfeld ( Steampunk #1)

Clementine-CHerie Priest ( Steampunk #2)

Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire ( comic)

Lifecycle of Software Objects-Ted Chiang ( Chiang's longest work to date, on a favoured topic of mine, A.I.)

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Waiting for shipment from amazon.com with the following:

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris

A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

A Clash of Kings - GRRM (because it was the only one I didn't have in US Mass Market Paperback)

Also just got my birthday-box from my parents with some books in Swedish, plus Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett (because I happened to have two copies in Sweden and none here in New York).

Yey!

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These came a few days ago:

Low Red Moon Caitlin R. Kiernan (PB)

Threshold Caitlin R. Kiernan (PB)

these arrived today:

They Thirst Robert R. McCammon (PB)

Blue World Robert R. McCammon (PB)

Mine Robert R. McCammon (PB)

The Reckoning Sarah Pinborough (PB)

The Taken Sarah Pinborough (PB)

Cold Print Ramsey Campbell (PB)

Deep in the Darkness Michael Laimo (PB)

The Jigsaw Man Gord Rollo (PB)

Flesh Gothic Edward Lee (PB)

The Hollow Man Dan Simmons (PB)

Lovedeath Dan Simmons (PB)

The Supernatural Omnibus (PB)

Waking the Moon Elizabeth Hand (PB)

Helliconia Spring Brian Aldiss (PB)

A Fire Upon the Deep Vernor Vinge (PB)

Araminta Station Jack Vance (PB)

Harvest of Stars Poul Anderson (PB)

Infinites ed. by Peter Crowther (HB)

Science Fiction: The Best of the Year 2006 Ed. by Rich Horton (PB)

Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2006 Ed. by Rich Horton (PB)

Zenith Dirk Strasser (PB)

Blood Michael Moorcock (PB)

Trader Charles De Lint (PB)

The Grass-Cutting Sword Catherynne M. Valente (PB)

Little Gods Tim Pratt (PB)

Fantasy Ed. by Sean Wallace & Paul G. Tremblay (PB)

Poodle Springs Raymond Chandler & Robert B. Parker (HB)

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I just got The Runestaff by Michael Moorcock, Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor by Mervyn Peake (I've already finished this one) and The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe.

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Just arrived last week:

Blameless by Gail Carriger (already read :thumbsup: )

Storm Front by Butcher (graphic novel for my grandson)

The Black Prism by Brent Weeks (already read :thumbsup: )

Will be arriving this week:

Killbox by Ann Aguirre

Chimera by Rob Thurman

An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

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Found all sorts of stuff in Philippines:

Kafka on the Shore - Hiruki Murakami

Into Thin Air - John Krakauer

Smoke and Mirrors - Neil Gaiman

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris

Me of Little Faith - Lewis Black

The Ground Beneath Her Feet - Salman Rushdie

The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester

The Wordy Shipmates - Sarah Vowell

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ARCS, other advance copies, final copies and the spoils of prizes that I received in the past 3 weeks. I'm drowning in books and loving it.

A Star Shall Fall by Marie Brennan (Tor)

After America by John Birmingham (Del Rey)

Gears of War: Anvil Gate by Karen Traviss (Del Rey)

CassaStar by Alex J. Cavanaugh (Dancing Lemur)

Creating Animated Cartoons with Character by Joe Murray (Watson Guphill)

Elemental: Destiny’s Embers by Bradley Wardell (Del Rey)

Elfsorrow by James Barclay (Pyr)

Factotom by D.M. Cornish (Putnam)

Game of Cages by Harry Connolly (Del Rey)

Greyfriar by Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith (Pyr)

Haunted Legends edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor)

Hell’s Horizon by Darren Shan (Grand Central)

Noise by Darin Bradley (Spectra)

Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal (Tor)

Shadowheart by James Barclay (Pyr)

Stars and Gods by Larry Niven (Tor)

Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer (Tachyon)

Surrender to the Will of the Night by Glen Cook (Tor)

The Cardinal’s Blades by Pierre Pevel (Pyr)

The Evolutionary Void by Peter F. Hamilton (Del Rey)

The First Collected Tales of Bauchelain & Korbal Broach by Steven Erikson (Bantam)

The Last Page by Anthony Huso (Tor)

The Native Star by M.K. Hobson (Spectra)

The Osiris Ritual by George Mann (Tor)

The Questing Road by Lyn McConchie (Tor)

The Ragged Man by Tom Lloyd (Pyr)

The Reluctant Mage by Karen Miller (Orbit)

Hawkmoon: The Sword of The Dawn by Michael Moorcock (Tor)

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor)

The Wedding Gift by Kathleen McKenna (Night)

The Wolf Age by James Enge (Pyr)

When Blood Calls by J.K. Beck (Bantam)

Swords & Dark Magic edited by Jonathan Strahan and Lou Anders

The Strain by Guillermo Del Tor and Chuck Hogan (Harper)

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Just picked up Sanderson's 'The Way of Kings', and damn-near had an orgasm in the store. I'm a huge world-building nerd, and the maps, sketches, ancient text quotes, etc 'bout put me on my ass.

Can't wait for work to end today. Been waiting for this one for a while now...

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I realised that I only have 8 books left to read so went and ordered "The strain" by Hogan/Del Toro, "World war z" by Max brooks, "the stand" by Stephen King and "The twelve" by Jasper Kent. I must be in a post apocalyptic/non-twilight vampire mood. That or the play,com promotion manager is feeling down :)

Almost got hold of "the passage" but realised due to size I should wait for the paperback.

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