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I am going through this series of books again.They take place in mythical feudal Japan (I am guessing 15th century). There is much melodrama, unfulfilled/frustrating love, battles, samurai and great atmosphere. I had read the first four: 

  • Across The Nightingale Floor (1)
  • Grass For HIs Pillow (2)
  • Brilliance Of The Moon (3)
  • Harsh Cry of the Heron (Last - it was originally a trilogy but then she wrote a fourth book)

She then wrote a prequel, Heaven’s Net Is Wide, which I just read so now I am going through the other four again. I would recommend reading the prequel after all the others. It would spoil how the other stories unfold.

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NYE Kindle Book Deals!

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As I have already read and loved all of these books, I don’t get to purchase them again, but you could.

The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. $1.99 on Kindle today. HAVE YOU READ THIS YET? If not, read it immediately. It’s about baseball but not about baseball. It’s about growing up, discovering yourself, and it’s beautiful. On many “Best Books of 2011” lists, as it should be.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. $1.99 on Kindle today. Highly imaginative and acclaimed book. Mystical and I think nominally Y/A, but the same way that the Book Thief is Y/A - it tackles many adult themes. Very pretty, very well done. And I read it on my iphone - the vintage photographs did not lose their impact that way.

The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. $2.99 on Kindle today. I read this years ago, the first in the series of “Thursday Next” mysteries, this one involving famous book characters being kidnapped from their texts (oh, yeah, literary characters are real in this). Thursday Next, the Literary Detective, must solve this mystery. IT’S JUST FUN.

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30 Kindle books for $3 each  (good through Dec. 5) (via 30 Kindle Books for $3 Each)

30 Kindle books for $3 each  (good through Dec. 5)

(via 30 Kindle Books for $3 Each)

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I am enjoying this book very much. (thanks notentirely for bringing to my attention)

I am enjoying this book very much.

(thanks notentirely for bringing to my attention)

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notentirely: my weekend read: ready player one, by ernest cline a really fun read with loads of inventive detail. i’m only half-way through, but i’m sure i’ll be passing our copy around to all the geeks i know. “willy wonka meets the matrix” indeed. This sounds really good. I listened to the audio book sample and I’m not that crazy about the narration. I’ll probably just get it on the Kindle.

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my weekend read: ready player one, by ernest cline

a really fun read with loads of inventive detail. i’m only half-way through, but i’m sure i’ll be passing our copy around to all the geeks i know.

“willy wonka meets the matrix” indeed.

This sounds really good. I listened to the audio book sample and I’m not that crazy about the narration. I’ll probably just get it on the Kindle.

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SMM sent me this book ages ago and I am finally reading it. Very good so far!

SMM sent me this book ages ago and I am finally reading it.

Very good so far!

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Currently reading. They had this and the sequel, The Dark Monk, on sale for 99 cents a piece (Kindle editions). They aren’t that cheap right now but they’re still inexpensive. I’m liking it so far. Kind of gruesome and suspenseful with an interesting story (17th century Germany with murders, a reluctant hangman, witches and ridiculous town politicians). There will be a third in the series, The Beggar King, released in January 2013.

Currently reading.

They had this and the sequel, The Dark Monk, on sale for 99 cents a piece (Kindle editions). They aren’t that cheap right now but they’re still inexpensive.

I’m liking it so far. Kind of gruesome and suspenseful with an interesting story (17th century Germany with murders, a reluctant hangman, witches and ridiculous town politicians). There will be a third in the series, The Beggar King, released in January 2013.

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I’m finishing the audiobook of Faithful Place by Tana French. She has a new book out, Broken Harbour, out now (ish).

I find it interesting that the secondary character in Into The Woods is the major character in The Likeness. A minor character in The Likeness is the major character in Faithful Place. Now the minor character in Faithful Place is the major character in Broken Harbour.

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I’m excited that the sequel to The Enchantment Emporium is out! I thought it was supposed to come out early 2012, but it was late 2011.

A couple other books I’m looking forward to in 2012:

The Twelve by Justin Cronin (sequel to The Passage)

Wizard Undercover by K.E. Mills (the latest in the Rogue Agent series)

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I’ll be reading this next.   Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the ‘cemetery of lost books’, a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax’s work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead. (via The Shadow of the Wind)

I’ll be reading this next.  

Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the ‘cemetery of lost books’, a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO by Julian Carax. But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax’s work in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind. A page-turning exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead.

(via The Shadow of the Wind)

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