Okay, I'm high as a caffeinated hummingbird because I just brought home a free reading copy of the Granta edition of Amy Bloom's Away. It's not as nice as the US hardcover - but who's complaining? The Granta cover is more subtle - the cover like an over-exposed sepia photograph of a little girl looking back at you.
Did I mention I have read all of Amy Bloom's books? Did I mention how much I am looking forward to Away? It has replaced The Razor's Edge as my priority reading right now. Hopefully I will be able to finish it by this weekend - which will allow me some time to write a little on it. I still have my half-written posts on Into the Wild and A Perfect Hoax pending. No pressure.
September has been a bounty month for free books. I've picked up some free books and Advance Reader's Copies. The list:
- Seed to Harvest, Octavia E. Butler
- The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney
- Against the Stream, Noah Levine
- Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf
- Making Money, Terry Pratchett
I'm particular happy with the free copy of Butler's Seed to Harvest. I've been trying to squeeze Octavia E. Butler into my reading schedule - but alas.
Seed to Harvest is an omnibus collect four novels from her Patternist series: Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark and Patternmaster. I hope it's good. Anyone has read it? Will I be disappointed?
3 comments:
I hadn't heard about Seed ot Harvest. Is it out yet? I've read the two in the series and didn't know it was a series until the second one. I read them some time ago and liked them both. The ones I read--I think--were Mind of My Mind and Patternmaster. I've always meant to read them all in order but haven't gotten around to it yet.
Your post reminds me that I've a review of Razor's Edge somewhere I haven't posted on here! So many books to keep track of and so many journal entries! Sometimes I *do* feel the strain of getting the reviews done as soon as I turned the cover.
Unless I come up with something more intriguing, A perfect Hoax would be the next Outmoded candidate. :)
Stefanie I think Seed of Harvest, is out earlier this year. But when I googled the Patternmaster series - it seems the books were released in different order from the chronology of the story itself.
Matt Ah, yes - sometimes it this blogging business feels like a job - with deadlines, doesn't it?
But how did you like Razor's Edge? Larry Darrell seems like someone I could almost identify with - at least as a seeker/loafer.
Good luck with A Perfect Hoax. It was nice and short - but I'm trying to write something that will do the book justice.
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