Once again, I've become sucked in by another good book by Alastair Reynolds—this time it's Redemption Ark, the next book in the Revelation Space series. All I can say is wow.
I picked up Goblin War by Jim C. Hines. I can't wait to read it, although it does sound like it may be the last book about Jig!
A few days ago I started reading Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds. It has been difficult to put down. I'm down to about the last 70 or so pages and I don't want it to end. I love having a book that's this much of a page-turner, and Reynolds does an excellent job. My first exposure to his work was Revelation Space, I picked it up based on reviews on LibraryThing and it's recommendation engine. Eventually I mooched most of the books in the series. The copy of Chasm City I have ended up with is actually my third—the first was a paperback (acquired from BookMooch), the second was a hardback purchased in a library sale in Portland, but it was in bad condition. The third copy I found while in Houston last December, and it's a hardback in excellent condition.
Chasm City is a stand-alone book that doesn't really have to be read along with the other Revelation Space books, so you can jump right in to it.
Get her some Book-scented perfume.
I can't decide if this is weird or enticing.
I just finished reading
It's spelled dais, not dias.
That word must have appeared 20 times in this book, and every instance was spelled wrong. This third book is the first one I've run across of yours that had spelling errors, and this wasn't the only one. Get a better editor, or get a better spellchecker dude.
LibraryThing just announced the addition of Powell's to their neighborhood bookstore program.
I am in book heaven now.
Not only did I get my new camera, I just got an advanced copy of The Journal of Curious Letters (The 13th Reality) by James Dashner. Can't argue with free books!
I'll add a review soon. Thanks LibraryThing!
Lorien got me this sweet new book:
All I can say is: Awesome.
Perhaps you can solve The Mystery of the Decapitated Cover Models.
After over 600 days of using my blog's plug-in for books I'm reading, and over 36,000 pages read in that time, I've decided to change over to my LibraryThing widget instead. I lose some functionality (like currently reading, recently read, etc), but I also don't feel compelled to keep my page count over 60 pages per day, which was happening with the previous system (since I wrote a widget that kept count of pages read). Let me know what you think of the changes, if you like them or not.
Well instead of finishing any one of several projects around the house, or just playing video games, I continue to work on my online library. I'm up over 400 books now, and have tons of tags in place, too. I love tags.
I've had the link to LibraryThing on this site for at least a year, and I'm finally getting around to putting all my books in it. I have to say, I really like they way it works. I only have 331 books in it right now, but I'm working on getting the rest imported as I have time.
I will probably end up replacing the book plugin I'm currently using on this blog with a more sophisticated one, but will also probably drop the Pages Read plugin I wrote to take advantage of it.
You can view my library here.
I recently found out that Barbara Hambly wrote a third book in a series I first read probably 20 years ago that I never knew about. I thought there were only two Antryg Windrose books (The Silent Tower and The Silicon Mage), but it turns out that 15 years agio she wrote a third book entitled "Dog Wizard" and I just never knew about it. I finally got my hands on a copy and will probably be rereading the entire series. Just more for the pile…
We love to visit Powell's Bookstore when we come down to Portland. In fact, we look forward to it at least as much as we do visiting our own family 
We stopped there last night on our way in to town, mainly because the traffic from I84 to the I205 was so backed up we could drive to Powell's in the same time it would take us to get on the 205. We got in to town around 6:30pm, and I was sure we'd miss the worst of the traffic. So we took the crazy freeway journey (I84 to I5 to I405) and drove through downtown until we could find a way to get on to Couch (Portlanders pronounce it coo-ch, not cow-ch like you sit on) so we could make the trip around the block that lets us park in Powell's parking lot.
We typically visit Powell's about twice a year, and spend over $300 every time. They validate 1 hour of parking for this. We complained at their comment box. Come on, it takes more than an hour to pick out that many books! It would be nice if they had free parking when you spend that much money there…
I was just going through my library picking out a new book to read when I ran across my statistics for pages read: 60 pages per day averaged over 500+ days. That's 30,000 pages of text. That's quite a lot of reading, really. Now if I could only get my library built…