gotta share, not TOO OT

Hehehehehehe! I gave Little Sis one to read on her hols (lolling on a beech or by a pool in Turkey - 'Turkey Basting', I called it!). She liked it and wants to read more! hey 0 she also mentioned going to Hever, which is really soon now, so we could have another quilter, when she can unpack her house and get at her machine!

Jennifer was on Simply Quilts a couple of days ago. I was way thrilled to see the show (I TiVo them all) and hear about her stories and her quilts. The quilts were beautiful and I can't wait to finish the series I am reading now so I can start on her books!

-- Dannielle from NY

Hey! The halls of fantasy/science fiction are as wide as the world! Science, history, sewing, anthropology, art, music, linguistics, social science, you can find it all in f/sf.

liz in california, in a house with 9000 f/sf books. No, I am not objective! not at all.

LOL...well, I have limited myself to Mercedes Lackey....at least until the Valdemar series is finished... however, there are a few scattered books from other authors (for historical romance, another "series" by Bertrice Small, and then a third by Nora Roberts....though I am starting to weed her books out - when you can look at the cover and remember the entire story, it''s time to pass them on to someone else).

Larisa

Elizabeth Young wrote:

Oh! my DH would be in literary heaven at your house. I think he's only got about 1200!! Mind you, they do change a lot. He takes some off, periodically, to a wonderful small town near us. It has about 30 second-hand bookshops! He usually comes back with as many as he took - so he doesn't gain space, just stories!! Not my cup of tea, but then ... . In article , Elizabeth Young writes

Half Price Books is a chain in Texas that sells used books or overstocks for half price. They buy them for 25% of original price. Since we are moving soon, I bundled up several plastic grocery sacks of paperbacks and delivered them into their hands. While they were pricing them, DH and I browsed. For the $9 we got, we bought $35 worth of others. What is wrong with this picture?

Nell in Austin

LOL.......... we also have a heck of a lot of SF/F............. especially since DH writes it! Also have a lot of historicals, gothics, "light" mysteries and who knows what all in this house. Lots of books.

Pati, in Phx

Elizabeth Young wrote:

some of us dont have any choice....sigh...whine...

I personally am keeping Amazon and Half Price Books in business. I am the reason amazon has a quarterly profit, when they actually have one.

I do love living in Germany, but my American library access is not like the good county libraries with loan status in the states.

The good thing is that I end up donating a lot to the library.

Barb

Oooh, what's his name/ what's he written? I'll bet there's some on the shelves!

liz

Pati Cook wrote:

My DH writes under his real name, Rick Cook. He has a series out the first of which is "Wizard's Bane". But the first two were released as a combined volume, "Wiz Biz" and the second two as a combined "Wiz Biz II". He also wrote a first contact novel that really needed more editing and wasn't as successful, "Limbo System" and, my favorite, "Mall Purchase Night" which had the working title of "the haunted shopping mall". He has had some ideas for a sequel to the mall novel that we want him to write and the title would be "A Mall and the Night Visitors". Most of the books are full of puns and some "in" jokes that you really get if you know the arena (with the Wiz books the arena is computers and such)

Hope you have them and enjoy them.

Pati, > Oooh, what's his name/ what's he written? I'll bet there's some on the > shelves!

Pati,

Which books are included in Wiz Biz and Wiz Biz II? When I've search at a couple book stores, some have those one but not both and others have individual books listed, but I'm not sure which is where! If that makes sense. I love science fiction and would love to read your DH's books.

Where in Germany are you? We lived there for three years, 1970-73, half near Kassel, and half just outside of Rothenburg o.d. Tauber.

--Heidi

I love Anne McCaffrey! Knee in her Pern series right now.

I've read all the Pern series at least twice - most of them (especially The White Dragon) 4 or 5 times! Keep hoping that 'someday' the promised movie or TV series will finally happen, but I'm not holding my breath!

I found some of them on tape. With an hour minimum commute each way to and from work, I can knock out a tape per day. I just finished "Prey" by Michael Crichton and it had 9 tapes to it. I found myself sitting out in the parking lot or my garage because it was at a good part of the tape!

I just finished Prey recently - borrowed from the same friend that gave me all the Star Trek. What an imagination Crichton has! That's the problem with tapes! I used to listen to the Radio Reader on NPR radio. One day, I wanted to hear that particular episode so bad, I hurrried up and finished my work and went home early so I could hear it! (I worked parttime & set my own hours!)