I love Sunday afternoons without demand that allow time for personal endeavors like devouring a new book. I positively squealed when my husband told me that a new novel by one of our favorite authors was released. You see, I had ordered books 2 and 3 of this Anne Bishop's series:
Amazon swears I only ordered 3. Consequently, when 3 arrived last week I was excited. Until I opened the package and found only book 3. I had no book to read and time to read a book! How aggravating is that?
Then today my hopes soared at the news of new Terry Goodkind. Then, I was dismayed when I could not locate Terry Goodkind's latest novel on the website for Hasting's (we have a gift card with some money still.) Then I couldn't find it at Amazon either. I could get it for a Kindle, but not a hardback. Finally I went to Barnes and Noble looking for a Nook book and there is was in all its glory:
Turns out he released it himself as an ebook. Hence the no hardback. Read the manifesto at the start. It explains everything. I am only 400 pages in, which is just about the 1/3 of the way mark on this tale, but I am loving it!
Anticipating the release of a new book by a favorite author can be extremely taxing for bookworms like myself. I only recently started reading George R.R.Martin, so I didn't have to languish terribly long waiting for A Dance with Dragons, but those few months were killer! My other favorite author, Anne Rice, used to routinely release a new novel in October of the year. I trained myself to check the book release lists at the bookstores. It got worse when I worked at Hasting's and could check the lists well in advance of the actual release date. The sensation when a much anticipated release of a phenomenal author finally breaks through to the stores always produces a mighty
Finally, my bookworm can rest and enjoy the tale of the first Mother Confessor. *sigh I must get back to reading. I left at a really good part.
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