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SAMK wrote:
> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
>
<Patricia Briggs - snip>
>> So the non-Mercy Thompson books are also good? I've read all her
>> werewolf books (including the newest, 'Alpha and Omega'). Been
>> teetering on the edge of trying out some of her others -- sometimes
>> authors who do urban fantasy well absolutely stink at other mini-genres.
>>
>> Case in point: CE Murphy. Loved her "The Walker Papers" duology --
>> better than Briggs' Mercy books, I thought.
>>
>> But her most recent book, 'The Queen's Bastard', I tossed down in
>> disgust half-way through.
>
> Actually, I rather liked The Queen's Bastard. However, her
> The Negotiator books I fell out of 1/2 way through the first.

Really? I just could not enjoy The Queen's Bastard at all.
When I realized the depth of my non-enjoyment, I stopped
reading. Anti-enjoyment, in fact.

I've read the first two Negotiator books. Not as good as
the 'Walker Papers', but readable. The first was better
than the second, I think.

We're mirroring each other!

I liked CE Murphy's first books better than Patricia
Briggs's (ack, s or no s?), but Ms Briggs is proving more
reliably good.

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Anne Elizabeth Baldwin wrote:
> "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>> Aaron Kemtek wrote:
>>> On Aug 27, 9:11 am, "Sasha Rowan" <mholm....TakeThisOut@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've just discovered Patricia Briggs. She is one of those writers that
>>>> drag
>>>> you along and at the end you realize it is 3am and you have to be up
>>>> very
>>>> soon. She also writes variety. One duology (Raven Storm and Raven
>>>> Strike)
>>>> is about traveling folk and magic and saving the kingdom, very vaguely
>>>> reminescent of Misty's Bardic series. Another series that I just
>>>> started
>>>> is about werewolves.
>>>>
>>>> Just wanted to recommend her.
>>>
>>> While on vacation I finished the 'Kushiel' series by Jacqueline Carey.
>>> Now I have two books from the sci-fi book club that I missed declining
>>> whilst on vacation, one is the annual best of sci-fi.
>>> Plus I have a pile of magazines about a foot deep to go through.
>> Oh, let's not get in to comparing the piles of magazines... :>
>>
>> <checks under a nearby pile> Darn. Haven't even reached the 2008 Nat'l
>> Geographics... still working on 2007.
>
> {blink} You keep a stack you can check? We've given up on that. After a
> while, unread and partly-read magazines just get put away anyway. Usually
> with other unread and partly-read magazines. It seems like they rarely get
> finished first. {SMILE, wink}
>
>
> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
>
>

Oh, in our house, nothing gets put away so that's not a problem!

Ree ( I bet you think I'm kidding)
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Anne Elizabeth Baldwin wrote:
> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>
>>Aaron Kemtek wrote:
<snip>
>>>While on vacation I finished the 'Kushiel' series by Jacqueline Carey.
>>>Now I have two books from the sci-fi book club that I missed declining
>>>whilst on vacation, one is the annual best of sci-fi.
>>>Plus I have a pile of magazines about a foot deep to go through.
>>
>>Oh, let's not get in to comparing the piles of magazines... :>
>>
>><checks under a nearby pile> Darn. Haven't even reached the 2008 Nat'l
>>Geographics... still working on 2007.
>
> {blink} You keep a stack you can check? We've given up on that. After a
> while, unread and partly-read magazines just get put away anyway. Usually
> with other unread and partly-read magazines. It seems like they rarely get
> finished first. {SMILE, wink}

I have, temporarily, got a nearby pile of most of the "to be
read next" issues -- one for each magazine subscription.
So, the oldest unread Nat'l Geo, the oldest unread
Economist, the oldest unread... actually, at that point the
titles start getting a little job-specific. Unusually well
organized of me.

The *rest* of the unread magazines are stashed hither and yon.

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m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
> SAMK wrote:
>> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
>>
> <Patricia Briggs - snip>
>>> So the non-Mercy Thompson books are also good? I've read all her
>>> werewolf books (including the newest, 'Alpha and Omega'). Been
>>> teetering on the edge of trying out some of her others -- sometimes
>>> authors who do urban fantasy well absolutely stink at other mini-genres.
>>>
>>> Case in point: CE Murphy. Loved her "The Walker Papers" duology --
>>> better than Briggs' Mercy books, I thought.
>>>
>>> But her most recent book, 'The Queen's Bastard', I tossed down in
>>> disgust half-way through.
>>
>> Actually, I rather liked The Queen's Bastard. However, her
>> The Negotiator books I fell out of 1/2 way through the first.
>
> Really? I just could not enjoy The Queen's Bastard at all. When I
> realized the depth of my non-enjoyment, I stopped reading.
> Anti-enjoyment, in fact.
>
> I've read the first two Negotiator books. Not as good as the 'Walker
> Papers', but readable. The first was better than the second, I think.
>
> We're mirroring each other!
>
> I liked CE Murphy's first books better than Patricia Briggs's (ack, s or
> no s?), but Ms Briggs is proving more reliably good.
>

The Queen's Bastard has a decidedly dark, erotic bent to it.

Alas, I sometimes like that in my reading. It's not for everyone.

SAMK
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Anne Elizabeth Baldwin wrote:
> "m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
> <"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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>> Aaron Kemtek wrote:
>>> On Aug 27, 9:11 am, "Sasha Rowan" <mholm....TakeThisOut@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've just discovered Patricia Briggs. She is one of those writers that
>>>> drag
>>>> you along and at the end you realize it is 3am and you have to be up
>>>> very
>>>> soon. She also writes variety. One duology (Raven Storm and Raven
>>>> Strike)
>>>> is about traveling folk and magic and saving the kingdom, very vaguely
>>>> reminescent of Misty's Bardic series. Another series that I just
>>>> started
>>>> is about werewolves.
>>>>
>>>> Just wanted to recommend her.
>>>
>>> While on vacation I finished the 'Kushiel' series by Jacqueline Carey.
>>> Now I have two books from the sci-fi book club that I missed declining
>>> whilst on vacation, one is the annual best of sci-fi.
>>> Plus I have a pile of magazines about a foot deep to go through.
>> Oh, let's not get in to comparing the piles of magazines... :>
>>
>> <checks under a nearby pile> Darn. Haven't even reached the 2008 Nat'l
>> Geographics... still working on 2007.
>
> {blink} You keep a stack you can check? We've given up on that. After a
> while, unread and partly-read magazines just get put away anyway. Usually
> with other unread and partly-read magazines. It seems like they rarely get
> finished first. {SMILE, wink}
>
>
> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
>
>

Hmmm, I do stack up my unread magazines. Read magazines either get
filed or recycled.

Of course, "reading" many of my magazines means flipping through them
going, "Gods, is that hideous" and then recycling them. I only do
fluffy magazines.

SAMK
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> >>>> I've just discovered Patricia Briggs.  She is one of those writers that
> >>>> drag
> >>>> you along and at the end you realize it is 3am and you have to be up
> >>>> very
> >>>> soon.  She also writes variety.  One duology (Raven Storm and Raven
> >>>> Strike)
> >>>> is about traveling folk and magic and saving the kingdom, very vaguely
> >>>> reminescent of Misty's Bardic series.  Another series that I just
> >>>> started
> >>>> is about werewolves.
>
> >>>> Just wanted to recommend her.
>
> >>> While on vacation I finished the 'Kushiel' series by Jacqueline Carey..
> >>> Now I have two books from the sci-fi book club that I missed declining
> >>> whilst on vacation, one is the annual best of sci-fi.
> >>> Plus I have a pile of magazines about a foot deep to go through.
> >> Oh, let's not get in to comparing the piles of magazines... :>
>
> >> <checks under a nearby pile>  Darn.  Haven't even reached the 2008 Nat'l
> >> Geographics... still working on 2007.
>
> >    {blink} You keep a stack you can check? We've given up on that. After a
> > while, unread and partly-read magazines just get put away anyway. Usually
> > with other unread and partly-read magazines. It seems like they rarely get
> > finished first. {SMILE, wink}
>
> >                          Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
>
> Hmmm, I do stack up my unread magazines.  Read magazines either get
> filed or recycled.
>
> Of course, "reading" many of my magazines means flipping through them
> going, "Gods, is that hideous" and then recycling them.  I only do
> fluffy magazines.
>
> SAMK

Most of my magazines are glossy.
Or does Fluffy have magazines?
If so, are the perfume ads 'innerscents'?

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SAMK wrote:

> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin wrote:
<snip>
>> {blink} You keep a stack you can check? We've given up on that.
>> After a while, unread and partly-read magazines just get put away
>> anyway. Usually with other unread and partly-read magazines. It seems
>> like they rarely get finished first. {SMILE, wink}
>
> Hmmm, I do stack up my unread magazines. Read magazines either get
> filed or recycled.
>
> Of course, "reading" many of my magazines means flipping through them
> going, "Gods, is that hideous" and then recycling them. I only do
> fluffy magazines.

I did fluffy magazines. Got caught by a telephone salesperson when I
was young and stupid, and wound up paying for a bunch of fluffy
magazines for yyyyyyyeeears. Cured me of a small spot of stupidity,
at any rate.

There are only so many articles on This Year's Trendy Eyeliner Colors
one can read before giving up on the entire makeup industry. :>

Although, come to think of it, most people would give up on articles
entitled: "Transactions are Tomorrow's Loads and Stores" or "The
Collaborative Organization of Knowledge" one heck of a lot faster than
they gave up on eyeliner color articles.

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SAMK wrote:

> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
>
>> SAMK wrote:
>>
>>> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
>>>
>> <Patricia Briggs - snip>
>>>> Case in point: CE Murphy. Loved her "The Walker Papers" duology --
>>>> better than Briggs' Mercy books, I thought.
>>>>
>>>> But her most recent book, 'The Queen's Bastard', I tossed down in
>>>> disgust half-way through.
>>>
>>> Actually, I rather liked The Queen's Bastard. However, her
>>> The Negotiator books I fell out of 1/2 way through the first.
>>
>> Really? I just could not enjoy The Queen's Bastard at all. When I
>> realized the depth of my non-enjoyment, I stopped reading.
>> Anti-enjoyment, in fact.
>>
>> I've read the first two Negotiator books. Not as good as the 'Walker
>> Papers', but readable. The first was better than the second, I think.
>>
>> We're mirroring each other!
<snip>

> The Queen's Bastard has a decidedly dark, erotic bent to it.
>
> Alas, I sometimes like that in my reading. It's not for everyone.

I've been known to enjoy dark and erotic reading, as well. I think it
was the lack of humor that killed my interest. The 'Walker Papers'
had a heroine who seemed to be trying to enjoy life -- at least, where
possible in between the invading gods and ending of the world dangers.

(Ok, I do have my limits in that genre. I gave up on Laurell K
Hamilton quite a few books ago. Mostly as an objection to the
increasing absence of plot.)

Eh. One of those mysteries of reading. If everyone liked the same
novels, we'd truly be in a boring world, right? My unhappiness was
nothing that reading "Bonk" by Mary Roach couldn't cure. :>

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"SAMK" <dimarchos DeleteThis @comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Sasha Rowan wrote:
>> I've just discovered Patricia Briggs. She is one of those writers that
>> drag you along and at the end you realize it is 3am and you have to be
>> up very soon. She also writes variety. One duology (Raven Storm and
>> Raven
>> Strike) is about traveling folk and magic and saving the kingdom, very
>> vaguely reminescent of Misty's Bardic series. Another series that I
>> just started
>> is about werewolves.
>>
>> Just wanted to recommend her.
>> Sasha
> I LOVE Patricia Briggs. In fact, they have just re-released much of
> her backlist and i picked them up at Barnes & Noble immediately. Do
> be sure to read Dragon Bones and Dragon Blood. I think they are my
> favorites.
>
> SAMK

I really need to check her books out more. I know I keep saying that. I
guess I'm hoping that if I say it enough, I'll actually remember to do so
the next time I go to a bookstore. {SMILE}


Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
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"m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage]"
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> SAMK wrote:
>> m_thomas[numBksInLastHrldMage] wrote:
>>
> <Patricia Briggs - snip>
>>> So the non-Mercy Thompson books are also good? I've read all her
>>> werewolf books (including the newest, 'Alpha and Omega'). Been
>>> teetering on the edge of trying out some of her others -- sometimes
>>> authors who do urban fantasy well absolutely stink at other
>>> mini-genres.
>>>
>>> Case in point: CE Murphy. Loved her "The Walker Papers" duology --
>>> better than Briggs' Mercy books, I thought.
>>>
>>> But her most recent book, 'The Queen's Bastard', I tossed down in
>>> disgust half-way through.
>>
>> Actually, I rather liked The Queen's Bastard. However, her
>> The Negotiator books I fell out of 1/2 way through the first.
>
> Really? I just could not enjoy The Queen's Bastard at all. When I
> realized the depth of my non-enjoyment, I stopped reading.
> Anti-enjoyment, in fact.
>
> I've read the first two Negotiator books. Not as good as the 'Walker
> Papers', but readable. The first was better than the second, I think.
>
> We're mirroring each other!
>
> I liked CE Murphy's first books better than Patricia Briggs's (ack, s or
> no s?), but Ms Briggs is proving more reliably good.

I've never tried Murphy to the best of my knowledge. What's he or she
like? {curious Smile}


Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
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Aaron Kemtek wrote:
>
>
> Most of my magazines are glossy.
> Or does Fluffy have magazines?
> If so, are the perfume ads 'innerscents'?
>

<holding my nose and RLH>
POINT!

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"SAMK" <dimarchos.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin wrote:
>> "SAMK" <dimarchos.TakeThisOut@comcast.net> wrote in message
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>>> Megan wrote:
>>>> SAMK wrote:
>>>>> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin wrote:
>>>> <snippage>
>>>>> When packing books, my husband brought home from work boxes
>>>>> that formerly held such things as paper towels and tissue. I
>>>>> took one look at them and decided they would NOT be housing
>>>>> books for the near future.
>>>> Were they too flimsy?
>>>>
>>> They were about 3 feet cubed. I'd never have been able to
>>> move them!
>>
>> Those are big for holding books. The best you could do would be a
>> few books, and a lot of lighter stuff. {Smile}
>>
>>
>> Anne Elizabeth Baldwin
>>
>>
>
> Yes, but I was only emptying my living room. It was books, and
> fragile stuff, not to be dumped on top of books.

That does limit things a bit. {Smile}

> Actually, I ended up putting the big boxes in the kitchen to
> empty the dining room into-- I moved stuff to the boxes and
> didn't try to move them full.

Now there's an idea. If I'd thought of doing that with the VCR box, we
wouldn't have had a problem with it. Unfortunately, we didn't realize how
heavy it would be until it was full and we tried to lift it off the bed.
{Smile}


Anne Elizabeth Baldwin


> SAMK
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