Challenges

[ladysprite]

My life is so damn hard.

I just finished reading 'Changes' - the next-to-last Dresden Files novel. And... stupid Jim Butcher. Stupid series. Stupid cliffhanger ending. The next book is out, of course. I have my Nook sitting next to me. I am about three finger-taps from having the follow-up in my eager little hands.

Except.... yesterday I was at Barnes & Noble, escaping the heat and browsing the Sci Fi ghetto (which is no longer a ghetto, and now one of the biggest sections in the store), and I noticed that the newest Wild Cards novel is finally out, and I splurged and bought it. I've been waiting for this book for almost a year, and it looks like they're finally leaving behind the plot I hated to go in an awesome new direction.

Of course, all of this is coming on the heels of my realization that I was two books behind on the Parasol Protectorate series, as a coworker pointed out to me a few weeks ago. So I also have the fourth book in that, downloaded to my beloved e-reader about the day after I started reading 'Changes,' with the idea that I'd read it as soon as I was done with that.

(Plus, there's a Charles DeLint novel on my nightstand at home. Some things I still need to own in paper.)

So many books, and I want to read them all Right Now, and it's incredibly unfair. Especially because my next appointment just got here (20 minutes late, of course), rendering it impossible for me to actually sit down and read.

Life is just cruel.

Comments

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

I suppose that this is a bad time to recommend the most excellent Laundry Files series by Charles Stross? :)

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

As an aside, I'm still waiting for Penguin to drop the Kindle price for "Ghost Story" down to something less than patently usurious. If J.K. Rowling can publish the entire Harry Potter saga without DRM and at a lower price than the print editions then there's no reason other than greed that Penguin can't do the same.

[darkoni]

It's like the universe is out to get you, specifically. I don't know how you survive it.

[joannahurley.livejournal.com]

Heh. Jon's response to Changes was, "Damn you, Jim Butcher." And he read it right after it came out. I need to start reading again. Do you like the Nook? I'm thinking about an e-reader or something to make books a bit more portable, but I don't know if I'll like them. Last time I tried e-books I found they didn't stick with me for some reason?

Anyway, I want your dilemma! :)

[fractalgeek.livejournal.com]

New - and worthwhile - Wild Cards?

[kyttn.livejournal.com]

I sympathize greatly! One of the hardest part of working at a used book store is seeing all kinds of wonderful books come in, but not having enough time to read them all.

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

I just finished reading 'Changes' - the next-to-last Dresden Files novel.

And I've almost finished reading the same book. Don't worry, you haven't spoiled anything, for reasons that will get reviewed within the week possibly.

[citabria]

I've gotten incredibly behind on most of the series I used to read religiously; some of that is due to money, some due to Borders no longer existing. Dresden Files is one of them, I can't even name all of the others. And, on top of that, I'm just finishing Game of Thrones (borrowed from the library) and very much want to start the next in that series.

So I get what you're saying -- many, many, many books (never too many, though) and not nearly enough time to read them all. :(

[mamatiger.livejournal.com]

Holy Crap, Changes broke my brain. I've read that Jim Butcher describes himself as "cackling gleefully" when he puts Dresden through hell, that book must've had him dying on the floor!

Also, Ghost Story is awesome, IMO. You need to also read the Dresden anthology "Side Jobs" too, for the story "Aftermath" which is told from Murphy's point of view.