OT: Authors Talk

You are very lucky Mary. That would be great to attend, to bad I'm over here on the wrong coast.

-Margaret

Nice. :) The Valdemar books are the ones that I read over and over again if I haven't been able to find anything else I feel like reading. I can read them any time.

Tracey

I so envy you! I love her!

Cheryl

Have you read Fairy Godmother and One Good Knight yet? They are very good and quite re-readable!

Cheryl

WAAHHHHHHH! I'd love to be able to talk with them! I've been reading her since her first book came out, and love all but a few. What an incredible writer she is. Tell her Hello from NC for me.

Fran

Lucky you, Mary! I've been waiting and waiting for the copy of OGK to come back to the library. It's currently on hold for another patron (for a week now!) and if they don't pick it up by Monday I'm going to go and claim it!!!!! In the meantime, I've just finished Mary Monica's new one and am about half way through Janet Evanovich's Twelve sharp.

Joan

I just picked up 12Sharp at the library! Do you have any clue how hard it was not to just go home and start it!

Cheryl

It's a good one -- not as good as #11, but still, good.

Ok- I'm about half way and enjoying it!

Cheryl

Yes! I forced myself to save it until *after* I'd read Sins and needles! :)

Joan

I have both in hardback and have read them many times. Mercedes is one of about 5 authors whose books I buy in hardback - I am NOT going to wait until they come out in paperback!.

Well, I bought Sins and Needles and I wait upon the library for Janet! Cheryl

I know what you mean - I find that the same with C.J. Cherryh (I bought 'Pretender'in hard cover on the weekend), Lois Bujold and George R.R. Martin. (I also once splurged on a signed copy of Guy Gavriel Kay's 'Lord of Emperors). I try to wait for the paperbacks, but sometimes I just have to have it. (Think of it as literary stash - but you can use (reread) as many times as you want).

Marg

I have to start with Cherryh again, I loved her Faded Sun series. The Song of Ice and Fire series is just about the best thing out there. I love Kay's work as well.

Cheryl

We're here. I am quite eclectic in my reading and zoom all over the place. I read a lot of "hard" science fiction in my youth, like some, but not all fantasy (very author driven) and hate the "alternate history" genre.

Cheryl

Like Caren, I read all over the map. But I have a soft spot for good juvenile literature.

In the library recently a new (to me) kids' fantasy series caught my eye. It's the "Warriors" series, by Erin Hunter. I've bought the first book, but haven't read it yet. I asked a friend if her daughter (age 11) had seen them, and she and her daughter are reading them together and really enjoying them.

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