other reading
Feb. 10th, 2010 11:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI don't seem to be reviewing all books I am reading. Especially not e-books, even the ones that were available on the Kindle (or the free K software). I don't know why those don't count, but they're going to have to start or I'll get to the end of the year and feel like I've read practically nothing.
Some of it is that I don't read my free Kindle books very fast. (I'm using their free software, so I don't really want to buy e-books from Amazon... plus we know they take things back. So it just makes sense [to me] to only get free things.) By the time I finish them, they are usually long gone from the freebie selections.
These are where I look to find new stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&node=154606011&redirect=true&keywords=-domain&p_36=0-0
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,16096.0.html
I'm reading Icy Heat by Leigh Wyndfield now.
I sometimes feel like I should at least note all the epic fic I read, just for my own information, but it's too much trouble. Plus I'm still twitchy about having fanfic mentioned because of all the people who got burned by LJ. Even though the DW people are awesome about content. [For those of you who don't remember, fandom and fic LJs were mass deleted after some people complained that they were bad for children... but it wasn't about that at all, since picture comms about socks showed girls wearing just socks while sitting with legs akimbo. And those groups weren't purged, despite my finding them because it matched keywords "knit socks", the *horror*.]
I did like the enormous fic [m/m, not for children, use good judgment], "The Apple Tree" by Philo; and the two stories (one shot, then epic sequel) by HumanTale "Counterparts" and "Learning to Vanquish". If you're looking for something short, "Lackland Elf Storage" also by HumanTale is wonderful.
I finished the third Phoenix book by Lackey and Mallory. I think it lost a LOT by me having read the other series (prequels) in between books 2 and 3, but I hope to have something more coherent to say about it soon.
I also read Jigsaw by Kathleen Nance. I don't know how she came to my attention, but the book was a serious cut above your standard romance... so much so that despite the spine label by the publisher claiming it is a romance, it was shelved in mystery at the library. I liked her writing style and the really novel setting. It's been a long time since I've read a romance that wasn't set in one of the trope-ic locations.
Some of it is that I don't read my free Kindle books very fast. (I'm using their free software, so I don't really want to buy e-books from Amazon... plus we know they take things back. So it just makes sense [to me] to only get free things.) By the time I finish them, they are usually long gone from the freebie selections.
These are where I look to find new stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&node=154606011&redirect=true&keywords=-domain&p_36=0-0
http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/topic,16096.0.html
I'm reading Icy Heat by Leigh Wyndfield now.
I sometimes feel like I should at least note all the epic fic I read, just for my own information, but it's too much trouble. Plus I'm still twitchy about having fanfic mentioned because of all the people who got burned by LJ. Even though the DW people are awesome about content. [For those of you who don't remember, fandom and fic LJs were mass deleted after some people complained that they were bad for children... but it wasn't about that at all, since picture comms about socks showed girls wearing just socks while sitting with legs akimbo. And those groups weren't purged, despite my finding them because it matched keywords "knit socks", the *horror*.]
I did like the enormous fic [m/m, not for children, use good judgment], "The Apple Tree" by Philo; and the two stories (one shot, then epic sequel) by HumanTale "Counterparts" and "Learning to Vanquish". If you're looking for something short, "Lackland Elf Storage" also by HumanTale is wonderful.
I finished the third Phoenix book by Lackey and Mallory. I think it lost a LOT by me having read the other series (prequels) in between books 2 and 3, but I hope to have something more coherent to say about it soon.
I also read Jigsaw by Kathleen Nance. I don't know how she came to my attention, but the book was a serious cut above your standard romance... so much so that despite the spine label by the publisher claiming it is a romance, it was shelved in mystery at the library. I liked her writing style and the really novel setting. It's been a long time since I've read a romance that wasn't set in one of the trope-ic locations.
