It's Here!! It's Here!!

It's here!! It's here!!

I had pre-ordered it from Chapters and it was only supposed to be released on December 2nd, the day before my birthday, but it arrived today!! Yes, Canada Post is delivering on Sunday because they have so many parcels to deliver, according to the fellow that came to the door.

Anyway! Katherine is my most favourite of faves and while the last few books of hers haven't been up to the standards of the Camber series and the Heirs of Camber series, I still have hope. She's the only author I will buy in hardcover, no questions asked.

I am going to be good and finish the novella I'm currently reading but then, I'm diving in! I'm SO excited!!

The 7 Deadly Book Sins

Found this on Hunger for Knowledge's blog and thought I'd give it a shot. :)

The 7 Deadly Book Sins


1. Greed- What is your most expensive book?

To the best of my recollection it would be the original Metallica photo book by Ross Halfin. I paid through the nose on Ebay to add this sucker to my collection!

  

2. Wrath- What author do you have a love/hate relationship with?

Anne Rice. I love much of her earlier work, including most of the Vampire books and the Mayfair Witches books. Interview with a Vampire, I think, is pretty damned awesome. That being said, she has shown herself to live in her own little navel-gazing world and so many of the statements she's made in the past decade have been way too over the top for me. So... I love a lot of her work but think she's a total nutjob.


3. Gluttony- What book have you devoured over and over again with no shame?

Oh, there are so many! To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, many of Katherine Kurtz's Deryni series, my Trixie Belden books - to be honest, anything I read I read without any kind of shame whatsoever. :)


4. Sloth- Which book have you neglected reading due to laziness?

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clark. I really, really want to read this one, but for some reason I have the sense that it's going to be a slog and I'm going to feel bad for finding it such slow going. One day I will read it. One day.


5. Pride- What book do you most talk about in order to sound like an intellectual reader?

I don't believe that I do that, but if I had to pick something, I'd pick the D'Artangnan Romances by Alexandre Dumas.


6. Lust- What attributes do you find attractive in a male or female character?

Smarts and a sense of humour are most important. As well, I like characters that have depth and that we see growing in their journey.


7. Envy- What book would you most like to receive as a gift?

Back in 1974/1975 when I was working at W. H. Smith, we were selling hardcover copies of Lord of the Rings (all 3 books) that had the most lovely onionskin type pages with gold edging. It came with a slipcover - no dust jacket. And we were selling it for $45, a HUGE amount back in the day. ( I just went to a conversion site and it seems that the buying power of that today is almost $220.) I coveted that book and would LOVE to have a copy. I've not seen one in the past 30 years though.

Bookshelves!!

So one of the bloggers I follow, The Book Nut, is doing a Bookshelf Tour on her blog and I thought it was a fun idea, so of COURSE, I had to purloin it. :)

Climb aboard for the tour! :) Lots of pics ahead!

First off, in the living room, we have a selection of my hardcovers. Guy Gavriel Kay, Frank Yerby, Tad Williams among others. And those little red ones? Those are my grandfather's Hopalong Cassidy books that I inherited. :)


 

Behind my desk is a little bookcase that holds music, erotica, how-to writing books, reference and my Rockfic collection. And yes, that is a figurine of a reading lady who is missing her head. I live in hopes of finding it one day in one of the boxes of stuff I have all over the place since the renovation... 6+ years ago. *LOL*


 

Over by the stairs we find my small bookcase that is full of Nora Roberts and only Nora Roberts. I have a big collection, hardcovers, paperbacks, trade paperbacks and I'm determined to get them all at some point. I'm at 90+ and counting. *LOL* And this bookshelf is stacked two deep as you can see.


 

In the hallway outside my bedroom door is the bookcase that holds my graphic novels and some reference books, including my grandmother's family bible as well as coffee table sized books. In the blue box are my Metallica and Green Day CDs. :) Oh, and that copy of Tad Williams' Shadowmarch? It actually belongs in the space you can see back in the first pic, on the bottom shelf between The Hedge of Mist and Tigana.


  

Up in the bed/sitting room we find the bulk of my books. This is a small bookcase that holds favourites. Katherine Kurtz, Anne McCaffrey, Jacqueline Carey, Robin Hobb, Patricia Kennealy and more. These shelves, as you can see, are two deep. I need the room!! :) And that middle shelf isn't quite as bowed as it looks. :) Also, I missed it, but on top of this bookcase is a pile of a dozen books that form part of the hard copy TBR pile.


 

This bookcase holds some miscellaneous old books on the bottom shelves but on the other two are books that I have yet to shelve in their proper spots. As well as part of the TBR pile.


 

The bulk of my books are in these Billy shelves from IKEA. On the left hand side is the bookcase filled with fantasy and science fiction and the right hand side is the one that's mostly historical romances, fiction, childrens series, mysteries, etc... Again, these books are two deep. A real pain when I have to look for a specific book! *LOL*

 

This bookcase is kitty-cornerd to the other two and is filled mostly with classics, hardcovers I inherited from my grandfather, my parents and my aunt and just miscellaneous books that I've picked up over the years.

 

And this is a snap of the tops of my 3 Billy bookcases where I store magazines and yes... even more hardcovers! *LOL* Most of the books are my hardcover Anne Rice books - the good ones, before she eschewed an editor. ;)

 

I have one more bookcase, it's an antique, but it's behind a bunch of boxes that I have yet to empty in my sitting room and it's full, mostly, of hardcovers that I got through the Book of the Month club and the Science Fiction Book Club. So sadly, no pic of that. :) I also have an archive box filled with my Star Trek novels and another archive box filled with paperbacks that I don't have room for on my shelves.

I also have a Kobo filled with eBooks. :)

And that's my tour!

Box O' Dailey

Box o' Dailey

More of the book collection.

These are my Janet Daileys that I've been collecting... well, since she started writing. *LOL* Yes, there is another layer of books beneath the top. (I had them out of the shelf to add details to the book database.) I have all but 4 of her Americana series. They're all very dated now, but I still love my collection and remember the reads quite fondly. She sure had some crazy hero names though!

My D. E. Stevenson Collection

My D.E. Stevenson collection. I was fine-tuning the Book Collectorz catalogue today and had them all out to check details.

I got most of them from my aunt who was wonderful about catering to my reading addiction. When I was a girl, she would use any occasion to buy me a book. :) D.E. Stevenson was one of her favourite authors and she hooked me on her stuff as well. Sweet, feel-good British romances. :)

Thanks Auntie Blanche!

I Can't Resist A Sale

So the end result of the 90% off code at Kobo was that I ended up with 27 new books, regular price totalling $167.30, and I got them for $16.73. It made me wonder if this was maybe an error on Kobo's part and they meant the code to be a one use only instead of multiple uses. And if so, do they have to pay the original publisher/author royalties or whatever on the original price or what the books actually sold for. And if it was a mistake - apparently the code was valid since February 24th until just after noon my time today - can you IMAGINE all the money they lost? YIKES!!

So I completed the whole set of Men of Honour by SE Jakes, books 2 & 3 of the Whyborne and Griffin books from Jordan L. Hawk, the first 3 Adrien English books by Josh Lanyon, books 2 & 3 of Moira Rogers' Southern Arcana as well as Book 2 of the Green Pine series, a couple of Josephine Myles books, a Kate McMurray, an Amy Lane, 3 Marie Sextons, the second Scorpion book by Aleksandr Voinov, the first Brothers Sinister by Courtney Milan, a volume of Garrett stories by Elizabeth Bear, a Rowan Speedwell and the second book in Rhys Ford's Sinners series and last but not least, Mockingbird and The Cormorant by Chuck Wendig.

It was one helluva sale.

(Crossposted to Blogger)