Non-comfort reading

[girlyswot]

In preparation for the journey, I made a brief visit to Barnes and Noble this afternoon. While there, I took the courageous decision to read things I don't normally read. All my purchases thus came from the various genre aisles that I normally eschew in favour of 'fiction/literature'.

My first stop was Romance where I found 'The Spymaster's Lady' by Joanna Bourne. I've read bits of this on Absolute Write and liked it, and I think moonette1 also enjoyed it, so I have quite high hopes for that one.

Next, I took a deep breath, thought of rhetoretician and turned into the SF/F aisle. Scary! I know there are people who find bookshops in general to be scary and panic-inducing places and I suddenly found myself having a lot of sympathy for them. The only book I recognised was 'The Princess Bride'. Most of the books had covers so awful that I couldn't even bring myself to read the blurb. I kept imagining what these publishers might do to 'Anat'. Finally I saw a familiar name - Lois McMaster Bujold - and clung to it in relief. I know some of my flist read and enjoy her books and, if nothing else, I'll be able to read more of ankaret's stories. I wanted 'A Civil Campaign' because of the Heyer links but they didn't have it, so I got 'Young Miles' which I think is a compendium of three novels.

Breathing a deep sigh of relief, I went to more familiar territory - the Crime section. I found an Amelia Peabody I haven't read and I was very pleased to also find 'Die for Love' which girlspell had recommended. I shall enjoy imagining stmargarets among all the romance writers.

I'll probably slip in a couple of ankaret's M&B's too. So now I'm all set. Well, I still have to pack...

Comments

[girlspell.livejournal.com]

It's important you read them in order. The middle one (Falcon) is a bridge novel, with He Shall Thurnder the climax. In fact, the resolution is not revealed until the very last line. A friend of mind was so hooked by the time Thunder was published (we had to wait 2 years!) she pulled up to the post office, opened the book to the end and sat there in her car burst into tears and ended up crying for almost an hour. All three novel titles have special meanings to each book. These are not stand alone novels.