NotFriday Reads

[ellenkushner]

Before I return it to the library, I just want to say how much I loved Elizabeth Bear (matociquala)'s THE WHITE CITY! Because her vampires are kinda my vampires.  She understands loneliness and time and cities.  And age.  And art.

It's part of her New Amsterdam series, and now I must go find the rest!

Right now, I am reading Elizabeth Wein's CODE NAME: VERITY.  I am in the agony of it's so good I don't want it to end so I'm doing my craziness thing of slowing down so it won't, except I know as soon as I finish it I'll go right back to the beginning and it will be even better the second time cause I know she's hiding stuff from me that will reveal itself the second time. . . . Delia got the book from the UK (because we're both huge fans of all her work) - and if I weren't a total nut I'd hurry up & finish it so she could read it so I could have someone to talk about it with!

Maybe you could, too?  It will be out in the U.S. in May.

Plus, I know perfectly well who the unnamed recruiting agent is!

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I want to read Code Name Verity! I didn't realize it was available anywhere yet.

[hierokeryx.livejournal.com]

I am in the agony of it's so good I don't want it to end so I'm doing my craziness thing of slowing down so it won't
It's good to know I'm not the only one who does that!

[elswhere1.livejournal.com]

That does it: I just ordered it from the UK, because I am a sucker for a British edition. And, less rationally, because I want to read it *right now* (not so rational bc it will take about a month to get here via int'l shipping. But still faster than waiting for the North American ed.)

[lindorm.livejournal.com]

I love the New Amsterdam-series so much that I feel a tingle every time someone else says they like it too. It's strange really, I'm not entitled to the feeling, it's not mine, I've got nothing invested in it - but it feels like I have because I love it so much. I'm both a bit embarrassed and and glad that I get to feel like this over a book. I have the same feeling over Sara Monettes short stories. If you haven't tried them I can warmly recommend Somewhere Beneath Those Waves by her. Mindblowingly good.

[nohwhere-man.livejournal.com]

The first was great, the others are on the too-long to-read shelf.

[ewein2412]

Plus, I know perfectly well who the unnamed recruiting agent is!

Careless talk costs lives.

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

I am an officer.

[nancy werlin (from livejournal.com)]

I am in the UK right now, and just got a copy of CODE NAME VERITY and read the first few pages last night and OMG.

Read it

[(Anonymous)]

Her agent gave me a copy. I was overcome by the time I finished. (But who IS the recruiting agent?)

I read the opening pages in mss. in Elizabeth's house in Scotland. Almost sank the visit since I wanted to keep going. Had to wait six months till I had the thing in my hands.

Whew.

Jane