::laughs:: oh now that is too funny! I just picked up that trilogy off the bargain table... thought it looked wonderful! The problem, or the joy I suppose of living overseas so darned much over the past 20 years is it is hard to keep up with the book scene when you only have the Stars and Stripes... now the Bookmark... to keep you up on the books out there... some of the "older" stuff is new and exciting to me. The trick is keeping a balance of "catching up" and staying on the cutting edge... advance reading copies really help in this endeavor... Don't know if you do romances at all, but just read one by Shana Abe called The Smoke Thief... was a lovely story with a great story line, I was entranced... dragons... they were dragons... ::grins::... maybe I should just start doing book reviews in my journal... might actually get some action!
When I was in England I didn't read much SciFi or fantasy at all... I found myself enamoured with what I dubbed "British Fiction"... it ran the gambit, but I haunted the charity shops gobbling up authors I had never heard of before in the states... I found Phillipa Gregory, James Herbert, Elizebeth Chadwick just to name a few. I just picked up another one of my British Fictions off the bargain table at work, it was called "Seeing George"... such a wonderful little tale about growing old... took me maybe an afternoon to read it. Sucha lovely story... and made me kinda home sick for England reading about their daily life of tea and shops and gardens and such... ::grins::.. boy I would love to go back... anywho...
(by the way... George was a dragon that befriended a young lady early in her life)
Don't ever hesitate to recommend a book, no matter how widely read a person is, you NEVER know what they have yet to discover... and there is always something else out there to discover!
Re: retail sales...
When I was in England I didn't read much SciFi or fantasy at all... I found myself enamoured with what I dubbed "British Fiction"... it ran the gambit, but I haunted the charity shops gobbling up authors I had never heard of before in the states... I found Phillipa Gregory, James Herbert, Elizebeth Chadwick just to name a few. I just picked up another one of my British Fictions off the bargain table at work, it was called "Seeing George"... such a wonderful little tale about growing old... took me maybe an afternoon to read it. Sucha lovely story... and made me kinda home sick for England reading about their daily life of tea and shops and gardens and such... ::grins::.. boy I would love to go back... anywho...
(by the way... George was a dragon that befriended a young lady early in her life)
Don't ever hesitate to recommend a book, no matter how widely read a person is, you NEVER know what they have yet to discover... and there is always something else out there to discover!
Hugs!