I've just bought.... (Fantasy, version V)

My Fantoms by Theophile Gautier (collection of stories with fantastic elements by the 19th century writer)
Sky Coyote by Kage Baker


Randy M.

Been a while since last visit to the bookshop & had some catching up to do; bought:

Steven Erikson
Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, Midnight Tides, The Bonehunters, Reaper's Gale

Joe Abercrombie
The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, Last Argument of Kings

Richard Morgan
The Steel Remains

Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys

I finally got the first George R.R. Martin book - A Game of Thrones, after people kept recommending it to me, so I figured I'd give it a try!

Ordered Return of the Crimson Guard the other day, still waiting to read Toll the Hounds first though.

While several of these are filling in holes in the library, here's what the mailman dropped in our box just today:

Endless Things - John Crowley
The Cornish Trilogy - Robertson Davies
Harrowing the Dragon - Patricia McKillip
Looking for Jake - China Mieville
In the Country of Last Things - Paul Auster

Received a day or two ago was E. Nesbit's Whereyouwanttogoto and Other Stories.

The Book Depository has taken off with a bunch of my hard earned cash and replaced it with the following:

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (non genre)
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
The Border Trilogy, Cormac Mcarthy (non genre)
How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers (non genre)
Renegade's Magic, Robin Hobb
Eastern Standard Tribe, Cory Doctorow
Amnesia Moon, Jonathan Lethem
Pandemonium, Daryl Gregory
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe
Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life, Steve Martin (non genre)
Hellboy: Conquerer Worm, Mike Mignola

I love the smell of fresh book tokens in the morning.

Return of the Crimson Guard by Ian Cameron Esslemont. Already 100 pages in and this is the best opening to a Malazan novel since Memories of Ice. Seriously impressed by how ICE has upped his game since Night of Knives.

World War Z by Max Brooks. Zombies! What more needs to be said?

I have an ARC of Peter F. Hamilton's The Temporal Void due any day now, which will be much appreciated. Looks like my Wheel of Time reread is going to have to go on hold for a week or so.

Just purchased;

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Neuromancer by William Gibson
The Warrior Prophet by R. Scott Bakker
The Thousandfold Thought by R. Scott Bakker
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Gatherer of Clouds by Sean Russell


And four historical fiction, 3 Richard Sharpe books and Master and Commander

I just bought:

Perdido Street Station- Mieville
Looking for Jake- Mieville
Mists of Everness- John C. Wright
The Bone Forest- R. Holdstock

and then:

Bone Song- John Meaney
Blood Ties- Pamela Freeman
The Good Thief- Hannah Tinti
Graveyard book- Neil Gaiman
The Given Day- Dennis Lehane
Wolf Totem: A novel- Jiang Rong
Island- Allistair McLeod
Conan: Born on the battlefield- Busiek
Extraordinary Engines ( steampunk anthology)- Edited by Nick Gevers
Odd & The Frost Giants- Neil Gaiman
The Penny Arcade- Steven Millhauser
The Knife Thrower-Steven Millhauser
Blue World- Robert McCammon


Pre-order:

Dresden Files graphic novel
Caine Black Knife- M. Stover

Just bought a few more:

Piper- Helen McCabe
The Toymaker- Jeremy de Quidt
The Way of Shadows- Brent Weeks

Eventine! Border trilogy is freaking the best. I'm up to Cities of the Plain. The crossing is pretty much the best book I've ever read...

The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
5 Stories by Peter Straub
The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers
Teatro Grotesco by Thomas Ligotti
The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont
Killing Johnny Fry by Walter Mosley

Randy M.