I just finished a good book called Solitaire by Kelley Eskridge while visiting my in-laws today. I had seen it a many months previously in passing and had scribbled the title on the back of something that was forgotten for sometime before I happened to check my library for it and noticed it was not in their collection. They had an option to request the book if you filled out an online form, so I did, and just this week remembered that they would likely have copies in. So I picked it up from the library yesterday before we left. When we visited the mall today (and my wife and mother were doing their bargain hunting routine), I snuck off to a bookstore in the mall to inhale the last few pages I had left of the unfinished book left in the car. [One of the disadvantages of being married, I must now act like an adult, a task that I never cared to much for prior to this situation. This apparently precludes walking around the mall with a large hardback wrapped in library shrink-wrap]. Unfortunately, like my library, this particular bookstore did not carry a copy, and also unfortunately they did carry a large number of other books that I wanted to buy, however being it’s property tax time of year, the time just after I purchased a laptop for me wife, as well as nearing holiday time, I definitely don’t have the money to be purchasing new books. Instead, I’ll put them here as a list to self so that I can begin to pick them up on my hopefully more frequent visits to the library. In an attempt to quell my mudding, one of my replacement activities will be reading which, while nearly as addictive, tends to be much less constant since there finite moments in between novels as opposed to one solid flood of never ending game. So without any [many] more runon sentences, I bring you my list of books and some miscellaneous commentary:

* The Elder Gods - David and Leigh Eddings. Yeah, I’m a sucker, I don’t really care what they write, I like it. Tried and true. If a new book comes out of theirs, I’m gonna buy it, read it, and enjoy it. Nothing like a familiar feel.
* Quicksilver - Neal Stephenson. WHY DID NO ONE WARN ME? I can’t believe I missed this book’s release. I was in Target last week and noticed it was out and nearly (despite all the above mentioned reasons) bought it. Thanks to my wife for the loving support to help me refrain. Go public libraries! I’m on the waiting list and should have about 20 days to wait!
* Darkness - L. E. Modesitt Jr. A relatively new author to me (only in the last 3 years or so), I’ve devoured most of the backhistory on his many series and have loved them all. A truly talented author who writes extremely well in both fantasy and sci-fi, I loved book 1 in this series, and am dying to read book 2.
* The Ethos Effect - L. E. Modesitt Jr. Crap. Why did I have to use amazon and find even more books of his to buy?
* The Parafaith War sigh

At this point I have to get my cell phone to read the note I wrote to myself of all the other books I wanted.

Oh, right. The two new dune books. They haven’t really held me all that enthralled, but I can’t stop reading them year, either.

Also, for the record, since Jaime recently got some new bookshelves for her birthday and we had to move our book collection around [excluding the dozen boxes still in my parents attic], I took the dozen or so books I’ve collected over the years that I have bought but not read onto one shelf in the bookshelf in our bedroom so I could read those. This week while staying up late [keeping myself sick] while Jaime studied, I finished off two of those. That reminds me. Another one for the list. The second of those two was barely a completely book, merely the first half of one really large book. Now I’ve got to go read the second half. I absolutely hate it when authors do that. I know, I know, it’s not the author’s fault, but the publisher’s. Whatever. I hate it when the do that with movies, or with books. I’m told Kill Bill suffers the same problem.

Hmm, I don’t remember when the last time I did a post this much in my stream of consciousness. Am I slipping? Or is it a welcome interlude from what I have been doing lately?

Posted by Jordan on Sunday, October 19th, 2003 at 11:12 pm.