As we turn the corner into August, here’s a final stack of new books and ARCs for July. What here appeals to your inner reader? Share in the comments!
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As we turn the corner into August, here’s a final stack of new books and ARCs for July. What here appeals to your inner reader? Share in the comments!
10 replies on “New Books and ARCs, 7/31/2020”
I’m sure you’ve mentioned in the past, and maybe I’ve even read the answer and have since slept and therefore don’t remember – but what do you do with those stacks of books? Your house looks like you could have a huge library but even so, you get a LOT of books!
The ARC of EACH OF US A DESERT by Mark Oshiro excites me most.
Just finished the Asaro. Its good
Noir Fatale is next on my TBR list after I finish slogging through The Garden of Rama…
lif strand, the answer is here for what he does with those books: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/03/08/because-people-ask-book-acquisition-details/
I can’t resist the title of “Shenanigans”.
Mark Oshiro!
It appears I’m not the only one irresistibly drawn to the title of “Shenanigans”.
Amazon’s (pardon my French) page for the book has a “look inside” option and the first few pages appear to be appropriately shenanigan-ish. That’s on my wish list now although it might actually be aimed at a much younger demographic. As my, now defunct, T-shirt once stated: In my head I’m still 18.
Growing up, I loved all of the Jules Verne various Castaway books – At the end of the world, set in the Black Tide Rising universe looks like it is a modern companion…
anything Eric Flint gets a closer look… anything ‘1632’ is automatic… since FEB, anything I read about the 1630s is getting too close for comfort: religious bigotry, autocratic rulers, economic upheaval (due to ‘future tech’) various plagues, etc. …funny how democracy and science and literacy has a better chance of acceptance in 1630s than 2020s…
I’ll buy the Oshiro book just because the guy is worthy of support. And he makes me laugh for hours.