I just got home (from book shopping, naturally) and found a lovely package from Narfna waiting for me. So amazing that she just KNEW I had finished The Wise Man’s Fear just last night and was in need of a new fantasy to keep me busy.
Also, how gorgeous is that Catherynne Valente book? Can’t wait to read it.
And Night Shift!!!! Amazing.
Thanks so much. Your choices were perfect. Cannonball book exchange truly is the most wonderful time of the year.
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
I’m home sick today and it made me happy when I saw the package had been delvered and now thisssss. I was worried I forgot to put my name on it. Did I forget?
Sorry I’m a little high right now from cold meds.
Also I’m soooooo excited for you to read Way of Kings!!!!!
whispers…no, your name actually wasn’t on it. But I have mad detective skills!
Nooooo, I knew it! How did you figure it out?
When I saw the Sanderson book, I had a feeling it was you. And then I scanned the qr code on the gift receipt and it just said Ashley…so I asked the great faintingviolet to confirm my suspicions! I remember we used to have another Ashley, so I just needed to make sure!
GAH I CAN’T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO PUT MY NAME ON! It’s lucky you’re so resourceful :)
Which Catherynne Valente book? I MUST KNOW so I can eagerly wait to see what you think of it.
It’s called Radiance, here’s the awesome Amazon blurb: Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood-and solar system-very different from our own, from Catherynne M. Valente, the phenomenal talent behind the New York Times bestselling The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Severin Unck’s father is a famous director of Gothic romances in an alternate 1986 in which talking movies are still a daring innovation due to the patent-hoarding Edison family. Rebelling against her father’s films of passion, intrigue, and spirits from beyond, Severin starts making documentaries, traveling through space and investigating the levitator cults of Neptune and the lawless saloons of Mars. For this is not our solar system, but one drawn from classic science fiction in which all the planets are inhabited and we travel through space on beautiful rockets. Severin is a realist in a fantastic universe.
But her latest film, which investigates the disappearance of a diving colony on a watery Venus populated by island-sized alien creatures, will be her last. Though her crew limps home to earth and her story is preserved by the colony’s last survivor, Severin will never return.
Told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration, family, loss, quantum physics, and silent film.