Today's haul!

[izzybelbooks]

After driving the hubby to the airport, I drove to not 1, not 2, but 3! bookstores!

I was feeling the need for some alone time away from the family after being here for a week, and it was just lovely. I did get 'lost' 3 times (once while talking on the phone and not being in the right lane, once because the hubby entered the address wrong into the gps, and once because the store moved 2 years ago and the yellow pages didn't know about it when I looked it up), but it all worked out in the end.

My 1st stop was Midway Books in St. Paul, where I picked up the following:

Midori Snyder-New Moon (I've got the 2nd and 3rd books and have been looking for the 1st forever!)
Lois McMaster Bujold-Falling Free (from a WisCon list of several years ago. Finally!)
Robert Sawyer-Fossil Hunter (the first was light, and I can always use some light reading)
Somtow Sucharitkul-Light on the sound (author rec' from WisCon)
Walter Tevis-The Man Who Fell to Earth (I've never read or seen it)
Larry Niven-Ringworld Throne (the Phandemonium book club is reading Ringworld, so I thought I should be prepared with sequels in case I like it)
Dafydd abHugh-Heroing (name sounds familiar, like it was rec'd, and the back blurb sounded good)
B. B. Chepaitis-Learning Fear (author name caught my eye-I'm trying to expand my reading list-and the back blurb sounded good)
Shulamith Oppenheim-The World Invisible (I'm a sucker for the name Shulamith)
 
Then, I went to Uncle Hugo's and spent the entire rest of my book budget for the year! Oops.

Ashok K. Banker-Prince of Ayodha (epic fantasy based on the Ramayan-is this a good thing or cultural appropriation?)
Steven Barnes-Zulu Heart, The Kundalini Equation, Firedance, Charisma (he's the GoH for Windycon this year, so I'm stocking up)
B.A. Chepaitis-The Fear of God (sounded good)
Eric Flint-1634: The Bavarian Crisis (I never finished the series and finally found this one)
Michael Flynn-Eifelheim (it's likely to be a book club selection soon, so I'm hedging my bets)
Karen Joy Fowler-Artificial Things (Tiptree, anyone?)
Esther Freisner-The Psalms of Herod (she's been rec'd before and the description sounded really good)
Neil Gaiman-Neverwhere (The Phandemonium outing to see the play is this month, so I should probably read it since I'm the outing organizer, no?)
Sally Miller Gearhart-The Wanderground (it's from The Women's Press, so what the heck)
Mary Gentle-Golden Withbreed, Ancient Light (she's been rec'd)
Karen Haber-Woman Without a Shadow (her name sounded familiar and the description sounded ok)
Manuel Mujica Lainez-The Wandering Unicorn (With a name like that, dare I hope he's hispanic?  Plus, it has a foreward by Jorge Luis Borges, I'm in!)
Ursula K. LeGuin-The Beginning Place (never read it)
Larry Niven-Ringworld, Ringworld's Children
Melissa Scott-Dreamships (Think Galacticon rec)
Midori Snyder-Soulstring (WisCon rec)
Jay Lake-Escapement (I hear lots about him and thought I'd check him out)
Kate Wilhelm-City of Cain, The Clewiston Test, Crazy Time, Juniper Time, Margaret and I (she was GoH at WisCon one year and I liked her)
 
My 3rd stop was Dreamhaven, but unfortunately, between their small selection of used books and the fact that I had already been to the other stores, I didn't end up buying anything there!  I did pick up a progress report for Diversicon, which I am thinking of attending. 

I am now going to commune with my darlings and devise a plan to get them into the house next week without the hubby noticing...

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

(Ha ha, matching icons!)

I love those Midori Snyder books (blanking on the trilogy title--but the one that starts w/New Moon). I read them out of order, too--found the last one, w/a cover that gave no indication that it was 3rd in a trilogy, loved it, eventually found the 2nd one, & then later on the 1st one. This was before they got reissued & before stuff like Half.com got really big, so it took me ages to find them all!

I read The Wanderground when I was writing an MA dissertation on feminist sf, heh. I suspect it probably reads really dated--& if I reread it now (it was like 10 years ago when I first read it) I would roll my eyes a lot, heh. Or maybe I would be charmed.

[izzybelbooks]

You gave me the icon way back when. Thanks again!

I've been dying to read the Snyder books and was despairing of ever finding the 1st one. Every bookstore I've been to has the other two, but never the first!

Wanderground came out in 1979, so yeah, it might be dated. I'm always interested in utopias, though. Whether or not they're realistic, it's interesting to see what someone thought was possible. Maybe it will be hopeful?

[lcohen]

i probably missed it or will be out of town, but when are you going to "neverwhere?"

[izzybelbooks]

May 16 at Lifeline Theatre. We've already put in our order for group seat, so you would have to get your own ticket if you join us. Sorry.