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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2006-04-03 11:21 pm
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Amazon.com order

This is what I ordered with the Amazon.com gift certificate I won from the Seventh Sanctum Beauty COntest:

Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
You Higiri, Cantarella Volume 1 (Cantarella)
Sarah Monette, Melusine

These are all books that people on my friendslist have squeed over that I was curious about. Cantarella's been out for a while, but my local store seems to have only volume 2 and no volume 1s, so this seems to be a decent way to get it.
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[identity profile] cerusee.livejournal.com 2006-04-04 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
Cantarella~ It's first thing that ever succeeded in convincing me that Italian history is sexy.

[identity profile] rachelmanija.livejournal.com 2006-04-04 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent choices, Smithers.

[identity profile] i-smile.livejournal.com 2006-04-04 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
Cantarella...! I had no idea that was out in English already!

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-04-04 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup. I think vol. 1 came out in October, but I never saw it, hence the Amazon.com tactic.
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2006-04-05 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks a lot for these suggestions. I wasn't quite convinced by Melusine, but I ordered and preordered Naomi Noviks three books, they got such good reviews and the set-up is very to my taste. I haven't read anything like Horation Hornblower in a long while and never combined with fantasy (I'd say reading Honor Harrington was more scifi and it wasn't quite it). Ahhh, now I'm looking forward to the easter holidays over there.

We seem to have somewhat similar tastes, though I gave up on You Higuri after trying Seimaden.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-04-05 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I was tempted to get all three of the Noviks, but decided that if I ended up not liking the first one, I'd get annoyed that I'd wasted the gift certificate on them, instead of using it to try more things. And Melusine's been making the rounds of the friendslist lately, to almost-universal acclaim, so it was a natural.
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[identity profile] estara.livejournal.com 2006-04-05 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
well what with the madness bit, and the amazon reviews I'm not so convinced about Melusine. But they did say they had high hopes for the second book to solve all the problems left. If that should be so, I might get it after all. The Novik books are all already out in British hardcover and seem to have only good criticism, so that's where I went. The paperbacks are preorders, I probably can stop those if I don't want them after all.
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