Amazon order

[telophase]

Mom came through with an Amazon gift certificate because I made her busienss cards at the last minute last week, so it was a nice haul. :)



Cybele's Secret - I liked Wildwood Dancing, so figured I'd try this. Original was the Twelve Dancing Princesses, and this one follows one of the daughters later.

In The Forest Of Forgetting - Read a review somewhere online that made it sound good. Gothic-ish short stories.

Oishinbo: Sake: A la Carte (Oishinbo: a la Carte) - The continuing adventures of the gourmet newspaper reporter! I read the first a couple of months back, and want more food porn.

The Luck Factor: The Four Essential Principles - This sounds like a really horrible self-help book, but it's by Richard Wiseman, author of Quirkology and researcher of weird human psychology par exellence, and I've enjoyed enough of his other things to trust that it's not going to be stupid, and will primarily deal with the psychology and behavior of people who consider themselves lucky and unlucky, as opposed to Here's How You Can Become Lucky Too! We'll see. :)

Princess of the Midnight Ball - Ran across a review somewhere. The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and the soldier in this case is also a knitter. XD

Izakaya: The Japanese Pub Cookbook - Um, yeah, Been craving non-sushi, non-generic Japanese food, unlike the stuff available here which is probably best termed "Japanese," and found this cookbook. Giving it a try, as I liked the food in all the izakayas we went into in Japan. Will report back. :)

At Day's Close: Night in Times Past - Been on my wishlist forever. Time to buy it or take it off. Sociological/ethnological look at people's lives after dark through recent history.

A Robe of Feathers: And Other Stories - Short stories set in Japan, about the boundary between the real and the supernatural. Sounds great! :)

The Wine of Angels (A Merrily Watkins Mystery) - Another one I found a review or mention of somewhere. Mom, who reads mysteries voraciously, said she didn't like it because there was too much woo, but she thought I might like it. Female Anglican priest and exorcist is the detective in this case.

Comments

[bzoppa.livejournal.com]

I love Phil Rickman (the Merrily Watkins books)!

It's a nice change from traditional urban fantasy. I listened to the first two on audio book, and I haven't read the last 2, but they're a lot of fun.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear that! I mean, it was pretty much a given that I'd at least try the book when I heard Female Anglican priest and exorcist, but it's good to hear that other people like it. XD

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

*updates wishlist*
XD

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I liked Wildwood Dancing a lot, but had some problems with several parts of Cybele's Secret, one of which still grates. I haven't read Jessica Day George yet, but her insistence on adapting my favorite fairy tales may result in a long and fruitful relationship.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Fairy tale adaptations is another thing I'm teetering on the edge of being burned out on - in highschool and college I yearned to find them and read everything I could get my hands on (spurred also by an addiction to Tanith Lee XD), but I'm more discerning now. I think it was the knitter that pushed me over the edge on this one. XD

(Also the new trend in covers of putting a photographic or almost-photographic image of someone in a completely non-period ballgown so it looks like a contemporary and not historical/fantasy to me, drives me NUTS. ETA; I should point out that the dress on this one makes me think American Revolutionary or Georgian, so it's not *quite* the same. :D)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the fairy tale retellings and "like a fairy tale" are getting to be a bit too much. There are some really good ones (I still get bouncy thinking about East and Kissing the Witch) but a lot are...not so good.

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

the story, in general, of the 12 dancing princesses has always been my favourite. innnteresting

[ukoku.livejournal.com]

Knitting soldiers?!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If you look at the history of knitting, it was heavily populated by men. :)

[ukoku.livejournal.com]

I do embroidery, which used to be male-populated, too. I miss those times. D: But picturing a dude in his uniform doing it is too funny.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Definitely report back on the izakaya cookbook!

A Robe...

[urameshiya.livejournal.com]

Telophase, I was just geeking around the Internet when I found your journal entry. I saw that you mentioned you ordered my book (A Robe of Feathers...). I just wanted to say thank you so much and if you'd like I'd love to send you a signed bookplate and another one that I made of one of the youkai that appear in the stories. I've been trying my hand at hanga and it came out quite well (creepy). My e-mail is madderblue(at)yahoo.com.

Thanks again,

Terrie