I share my obession with you all

[brigdh]

I am weirdly obsessed with Jacqueline Carey's books at the moment! I don't even know why. Well, I'm sure it's because I just finished the Imriel trilogy, but I did not even like it that much, and I liked the last book least of all (amnesia: not one of my kinks, apparently). And yet: my obsession grows. While I go back and forth on whether I actually want to buy the new one in hardcover (answer: yes, I have totally succumbed to the temptation, and yet I keep being vexed by every bookstore I go to not having a copy. Come on, temptation! I want to give in) I am rereading the first book.

Anyway, I'm really only posting to share what I have just realized: Namaah is a real angel! As are all the rest, apparently. I had no idea!

Comments

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

The new one being Namaah's Kiss? I, er, may have an HTML copy of the whole thing, if you want it. Not to preclude you from buying it, of course--just to tide you over until the bookstores shape up.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ooooooooooooooo. That is totally tempting! On the one hand, I don't really like to read long things on the computer. On the other hand... no more waiting! So, uh, if you would not mind, I am totally interested. Do you need my email? It is brigdh at gmail.

[stardragonca.livejournal.com]

Yes! Everyone of them is an actual historically written about angel.
(I was a very strange child.)

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

Sent!

Yes, I usually tend to avoid ebooks and such for the same reason--it's really an awkward way to read something of that length. In this case, though, I had an empty weekend and was in need of something new and frivolous to read, and it was either get it this way or try to make the thirty or so holds on the public library's copy magically disappear. *g*

[rm.livejournal.com]

Her world-building is amazing. After that, it gets a little hazy. Also, best characters die in the first third of the first book.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I was about to reply with much the same offer.

Which suggests to me that the planets may be in a one-time-only alignment: the three of us might, just might, have a few days during which we are all actually reading the same thing!

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Oh man, her books are totally up on my 'favourite fantasy reads ever' list despite their faults. I love picking apart her world-building and figuring out what's based on fact or genuine mythology etc.

[keelieinblack.livejournal.com]

Hm. With the right three people reading the right sort of book, that might be the setup for something with Great and Dire consequences!

(Unfortunately, that's probably not the case in this instance. But perhaps we'll still manage to cause a minuscule ripple in the fabric of the world, somewhere.)

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I was wondering if I'd ever like anyone as much. Though I do love that poor boy she stuck on the island.

[moonsheen.livejournal.com]

Those books have always been my guilty-pleasure read. Florid and purple as hell but I LOVE her world-building to death and read them just for the little details of AU history she sticks in there.

[moonsheen.livejournal.com]

Also Posman's at Grand Central has it I think? At least last I ducked in there on my way home it totally did.

[gen50.livejournal.com]

i just discovered Carey yesterday, and will start reading this weekend.
but, i dont have this title you guys are talking about.

still, i will learn the style.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I really adore her, though I admit there are some (possibly lots) of problems with her work. But she crack-tastic in an awesome way.

We're talking about her newest book, Namaah's Kiss, which just came out in the States. But all of her Kushiel books share the same world, so you get a sense pretty quickly of whether you'll like her or not.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I love her world-building too. The Elua religion is Just So Cool.

And yes! This is the problem: I kept seeing Namaah's Kiss in, like, every single book store in NYC, but at that point I had not yet entered my obsession, and so was willing to wait until it came out in paperback (or the library didn't have 50 holds on their copy). But now I am in Ohio (and was in South Carolina at the beginning of the week) and now seems to have it. But it's alright, because I finally found it at a bookstore last night. Although it was in the romance section, for some reason.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too! Which is one of the reasons that the last book of the Imriel trilogy bugged me, because there wasn't much new world-building. I mean, sure, they went to Cytherea and Carthage and Aragonia, but they didn't interact with anyone except other D'Angelines, so as a reader, you didn't get to see much of the culture. The pseudo-Basques were cool, though (I forget what Carey called them, the people who wanted their own country between Aragonia and Terre D'Ange)!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh. You always like the minor adult characters who almost disappear after the beginning (this, the guy in Golden Compass... okay, I can only think of two examples. But still!).

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I adore Hyacinthe too! He should definitely have been more in the story.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I had no idea! It's really neat.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Which guy in Golden Compass? The gay angels? or do you mean Asriel -- who's around a good bit....

But yeah, I do.... more wiggle room.

Oh, it's amazing it took three seasons for Ianto to die, considering.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I meant Asriel, who is around, but not much after the first book. :) I totally forgot about the gay angels!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I suppose that's true... he looms large in my mind, I suppose.

I stop talking now

Hey, what do you think of this dress for me, like with my hair slicked back with a spitcurl?

http://www.trashydiva.com/trashydiva/BETTYDRESSBLUEDOTS1.html

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

No, don't!

That is wicked cute!

[rm.livejournal.com]

I might even need a little sailor hat. I mean, it's just that funny.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee. I would take many photos of you.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Maybe it will be my Dragon*Con "I'm Really Not Cosplaying" look this year.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thumbs up!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! Though, of course, immediately after I made this post I found a copy at a bookstore. But! I deeply appreciate your efforts to save me from impatience. *grins*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

The universe aligns! I wish it had aligned about a year and a half ago, since I was then at a con with Jacqueline Carey herself. Since then I wasn't particularly interested in her (though I had read all of the books out at that point), I would be way more into it right now. There was even supposed to be a Longest Night masque at the con! Though I think it was canceled at the last minute for some reason.

Anyway, I am also curious about how you all are finding html files of new books. I need this secret access!

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I knew something bad was going to happen but HEY WAIT THAT?

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

If I'm remembering accurately (and I may not be), what you want is ebook_share. It's a closed comm, but I don't think you need a super-secret handshake or anything -- more like, if you ask to join and the mods look at your journal and see that you've been around for a while and don't seem to be a secret feral raised-by-howler-monkeys sort of person, they'll add you.

Comes in very handy when you want to read something that you think you should have a copy of around somewhere, only you can't find it. Or when you kind of think you should skim something everyone else is reading, but can't bear to have a physical copy of it. Or any of those awkward little things.

I agree with you, by the way: the Imriel books never quite worked the way they should have. I realize that she had something of a technical issue, inasmuch as part of the plot was supposed to be the degree to which Imriel was Not His Mother; but surely there was a way to make him a more complicated and interesting person without having him be Melisande? So it was nice to see that she'd gone back to basics for this latest installment.