My Calender's Word of the Day Today

[brigdh]

Bibliobibuli There are people who read too much, bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
-H. L. Mencken's Notebook 71, 1956


Speaking of, I accidentally read Swordspoint again today (I wasn't going to start another novel until I finished a book I was reading for a class, but that didn't happen), and I could read a thousand thousand pages of Alec and Richard. Especially Alec. Oh, how I love bitter, self-destructive characters.

Comments

[eag.livejournal.com]

Now you make me want to go find my copy of Swordspoint out of the boxes of books and re-read it. *__*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

You should! I adore it so, and it's been just long enough since I read it last that I knew it had a happy ending, but I couldn't remember how they got there, which made it pratically more suspenseful than if it was my first time reading it.

And now I'm just starting the new sequel (The Priviledge of the Sword, not The Fall of Kings, which I didn't like), and I'm hoping it'll be just as good.

[eag.livejournal.com]

Wait, there's a new sequel? *explode*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Dude, I know! I found it accidently in a bookstore a week or two ago. And it's automatically a hundred times better than The Fall of Kings just because it actually has Alec in it. It might have Richard, too; I'm not sure, I'm only ten pages in, but I'm hoping he'll show up.

[eag.livejournal.com]

The Fall of Kings was interesting, but totally not a sequel. Same world, yes, but oblique references do not a sequel make.

I'm going to look for it now. Who was the author again?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ellen Kushner. And it's already in paperback.

[eag.livejournal.com]

Sweet! Thanks. I'm gonna definitely go check it out.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Dude, are you peeking at my reading list? *G* This seems to be my month for revisiting old favorites, first The Nightingale, and now Swordspoint, in anticipation of Amazon shipping me The Privilege of the Sword.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. Privilege of the Sword is turning out to be excellent; I found it recently in a bookstore on accident.

I've never read The Nightingale, though I saw you mention it in a post a little while ago! I'll have to look it up.

[ranalore.livejournal.com]

Sadly, it's out of print. I ordered it used off of Amazon. It's well worth tracking down, it really is just gorgeous.