I've got ...

[wellinghall]

... the new Naomi Novik :-)

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[rustica.livejournal.com]

What? Empire of Ivory? How did you get that - on import? Where from? Is it any good (no spoilers pls)?

*is very jealous*

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Import from the States, via abebooks - there are loads of them there :-)

I've been very noble and self-sacrificing, though, and I'm letting Creatrix read it first.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

I must check my amazon account. I don't *think* I've already bought it on pre-order.....

NN says on her lj that her publishers are working on not having such an enormous gap between publishing dates for her future works. However, I also have the dilemna that the covers are supposed to be so much better on the US editions... will I end up replacing all my books 1 - 3 to match....? NO! Down! Bad Rustica! :)

I admire your self restraint in letting Creatrix read it first! :) Or did she beat you to the post, and now refuses to tell you where it is hidden?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

They're not that much better, IMHO.

And, I'm just very, very good :-) *preens* I have a new Bill Bryson to read, and the next Hannibal Lecter coming tomorrow, with any luck.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

"...the next Hannibal Lecter"

*shudders* I haven't dared watch the films so I have only the vaguest understanding of what they are about, and even that is *way* too much for me. That nice gentleman, he was in Shadowlands, you know.... *runs away and hides*

Ooh - Bill Bryson?

I have a nice[1] book on the go at the moment. I should write a review about it. Except I haven't finished it yet, but still...

[1] for a given value of nice. SF with added Ick.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

[1] What is it?

Bill Bryson - life and times of the Thunderbolt kid. As good as his stuff usually is.

Those who know my approach to ickiness will be very surprised to hear that I like the Hannibal Lecter novels. But I do.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

I bought that Bill Bryson a few months back, but I wasn't all that impressed, to be honest. I didn't finish it.

The book I've been enjoying is "Disposable People" by Marshall Goldberg and Kenneth Kay. It's about a really nasty plague :D

Why do you like the Hannibal Lecter novels, purely out of curiosity?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well-written; interesting, 3-D characters (even the title character has a lot more to him than the obvious); "different" crime novels.

[sally_maria]

*is also very jealous*

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

Lucky, lucky you. I wonder how long it will take to get here?

Actually ... was that a UK edition? If so I might be able to pick it up next week.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

I read somewhere that some of the London bookshops have US imports for sale....

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There's a couple on eBay, as well as the loads on abebooks. And amazon.com, but they seem to have hiked up their trans-Atlantic rates since last time I used them. (Unless you want it to come by surface. That's land surface, across the Bering Straits. By yak).

Murder One would have had it in the old days, before they minimised their operation *sobs* Andromeda in Birmingham will no doubt have it. There probably are other places - I just don't know where. Or get a friend in the States to buy it and post it to you.

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

I thought Andromeda had gone phut! ?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I hadn't heard, but you may well be right - it's ages since I've been.

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely look for it then. Actually, there's a shop here that does US imports so I'll check there too.

[rustica.livejournal.com]

Ok, so my comment would have been more useful if I'd looked at your profile first and seen that London shops are unlikely to be more accessible to you than US shops :). Ahem!

[asklepia.livejournal.com]

No problem - it's a very small world, after all!

[freya-9.livejournal.com]

Wow. You are so lucky. I shall have to get around to buying things via the internet... Particularly as my 1-3 have the American covers.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I haven't got a matched set at all - I was one of the first buyers / readers, with my Temeraire being a UK hardback!

I buy loads of books on the internet. And in bricks-and-mortar stores :-)

[freya-9.livejournal.com]

Ah. Matched sets are over-rated; (particularly as the first has the name "His Majesty's Dragon" instead of "Temeraire") but i am realising that having paperbacks can mean more space for more books :)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. *nods furiously*

It's just that sometimes I go into Waterstones and get ... seduced.

I blame that book for my lack of sleep last night.

[findabair.livejournal.com]

I bought Empire of Ivory yesterday and had trouble putting it down once I started reading. I really like it :)

Btw, thanks for friending me!

Re: I blame that book for my lack of sleep last night.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Not at all - thanks for friending me back!