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Finished: Stations of the Tide, by Michael Swanwick (Nebula Winner)
Started: 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill
First, thoughts on Stations. Short form: Okay, a bit 'not my thing'. Not much spoilers behind the cut though. ( Read more... )
Okay, now. 20th Century Ghosts, written by one of the sons of Stephen King (the book doesn't mention that anywhere, I just remember hearing about it elsewhere) is a collection of short stories. I just got it today. In the mail. For free. Yay, free book! What happened was a while back I signed up for HarperCollins (Canada)'s First Look Program, where in order to get some advance reviews of some of their books, they send a few of them out readers who sign up to their program for free. Only Canadians, of course, but other countries might have similar programs you could look into. Not a lot of their offerings had interested me so far, but this one did, so I requested it. I hadn't heard anything so I assumed they didn't choose me for it (they select who gets one of however many they send out randomly from the people who request it), but I got it in the mail today. Advanced Reader's Edition. So since I just finished a book I decided to put it next in rotation. I say again, yay for free books!
Oh, and the other day I finally watched Batman Begins for the first time. Spoilers behind the cut, even though I'm probably the last comic fan to have not seen it.
( Read more... )
Started: 20th Century Ghosts, by Joe Hill
First, thoughts on Stations. Short form: Okay, a bit 'not my thing'. Not much spoilers behind the cut though. ( Read more... )
Okay, now. 20th Century Ghosts, written by one of the sons of Stephen King (the book doesn't mention that anywhere, I just remember hearing about it elsewhere) is a collection of short stories. I just got it today. In the mail. For free. Yay, free book! What happened was a while back I signed up for HarperCollins (Canada)'s First Look Program, where in order to get some advance reviews of some of their books, they send a few of them out readers who sign up to their program for free. Only Canadians, of course, but other countries might have similar programs you could look into. Not a lot of their offerings had interested me so far, but this one did, so I requested it. I hadn't heard anything so I assumed they didn't choose me for it (they select who gets one of however many they send out randomly from the people who request it), but I got it in the mail today. Advanced Reader's Edition. So since I just finished a book I decided to put it next in rotation. I say again, yay for free books!
Oh, and the other day I finally watched Batman Begins for the first time. Spoilers behind the cut, even though I'm probably the last comic fan to have not seen it.
( Read more... )
