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Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

The first book haul of 2024. I was especially happy to find Fuzzy Nation, the only book by Scalzi I haven't read, and Robots Versus Slime Monsters, a short story collection by A. Lee Martinez, another favorite author.
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audraelizabeth Those look like they are older scifi books, am i right? 3mo

RamsFan1963 @audraelizabeth Fuzzy Nation & Robots vs Slime Monsters are fairly recent, 2011 & 2013, but the other four books are much older, from the 70s & early 80s. 3mo

Ruthiella Fuzzy Nation was a lot of fun. I think you‘ll like it! 3mo

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audraelizabeth Nice, i dont know that ive read any scifi of that age. 3mo

RamsFan1963 @audraelizabeth The best thing about older sci-fi is it's usually one and done, you don't have to read a series of books to get the whole story. It's getting harder and harder to find genre books that aren't either the start of a new series or part of an existing series. I read plenty of series, don't get me wrong, but sometimes it's nice to get the whole story laid out in 175-200 pages. 3mo

audraelizabeth I understand, im bad about not finishing series. I would think it would be interesting to read how they thought life in current times would be. 3mo

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Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

I got a good #bookhaul from the used bookstore. I've been wanting to try the Thursday Next series, so I was thrilled to see they had The Eyre Affair (and the rest if I want to continue the series). I remember Urshurak from when I was like 15, but it looked too much like a LOTR ripoff so I skipped it. I'll read anything by John Scalzi & Mike Resnick.
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Bookwomble I had the exact same experience with Urshurak when I was a teen - it looked fantastic, the Hildebrand artwork lush, but the story looked too derivative of JRRT, so I never actually read it. 6mo

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RamsFan1963

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

After a quick trip to the used book store to drop off a load of books, I decided to treat myself. I was already getting the Star Wars book, but I'm excited to read the book about 80s action stars. The author wrote a very good book, Wild & Crazy Guys, about 80s comedy stars.
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TieDyeDude All three of those books sound interesting. I picked up From a Certain Point of View a couple weeks ago, but I still have to read the Empire one. 7mo

RamsFan1963 @TieDyeDude While I think Empire is the superior film to A New Hope, I thought the first FACPOV book was better than the sequel. 7mo

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Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

What's the best way to deal with Litsy's current condition? Buy more books of course!! For those who can't see, I got The Cradle of Ice by James Rollins and Into The Light by David Weber & Chris Kennedy. The Rollins' book just came out earlier this year and I already found a copy in the bargain section of BAM! Score!!
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BethM I miss having BAM. 8mo

Ruthiella Way to make lemonade out of lemons 🍋! 👍😂 8mo

RamsFan1963 @Ruthiella Yes you really have to twist my arm to get me to buy another book 😂😂 8mo

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RamsFan1963

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

I might have gotten a little carried away at today's bookstore visit, but it's been awhile since I splurged. 4 of these books were on my wishlist to read. The Dan Jones book I'd been eager to read after reading his excellent book on the Dark Ages, Powers and Thrones. The Lore book was just a whim, it sounded interesting.
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CBee I really liked the Stuart Turton book! 12mo

AmyG Ha @CBee….I will have to read that one. I have it somewhere….. 12mo

CBee @AmyG it was on a few of your #bookspin lists a while back 😂😘 12mo

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RaeLovesToRead The devil and the dark water 💙💚 12mo

AmyG Hahahaha was it? So it‘s there somewhere! @CBee 12mo

CBee @AmyG yep 😂😂 12mo

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Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes | Travis Baldree

My first #bookhaul for 2023. #BlameLitsy for my purchase of Legends & Lattes, I've seen it get lots of love here. I really enjoyed World War Z, so I'm looking forward to Devolution.
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Johanna414 I loved both of those! 1y

Reggie I loved Devolution. 1y

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RamsFan1963

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

Nothing better, after a long day at work where everyone called off and I had to work alone, to come home to some book mail.
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The_Book_Ninja They look damn sexy! 1y

RamsFan1963 @The_Book_Ninja I like my old school science-fiction, short and I don't have to read 5 books to get the whole story. Stand alone sci-fi has just about become a thing of the past, like fantasy has been for many years. 1y

The_Book_Ninja Where do you buy them? 2nd hand books are so expensive nowadays. They used to be pennies 1y

RamsFan1963 @The_Book_Ninja Usually off ebay or the local used book store, also any library sales I can catch. You're right though, even used, older paperbacks aren't cheap. These three ran me about 15, which is much less than a hardback book but still not as inexpensive as they used to be. 1y

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Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

It's been too long since I did a nice splurge at the bookstore.
I can never have too many Star Trek novels, and All of the Marvels is something I've been very eager to read. I read Bad Days in History a couple of years ago, I didn't know there was a sequel.

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Leftcoastzen Nice haul! 2y

Meshell1313 Awesome! If I were going to start reading the Star Trek books, which one would you recommend I start with? There‘s sooo many. 2y

RamsFan1963 Hmmm there are several really good ones. Anything by David Mack or Dayton Ward will be good for anyone no matter your knowledge of Trek lore. A good starting point is the Vanguard series by Mack & Ward. It has both characters from classic original ST and new characters too. 2y

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Graywacke I‘m interested on All the Marvels. I bought it for my son, who likes the Marvel movies, but not books so much. Didn‘t take. But I‘m still eying it for me. 2y

Meshell1313 @RamsFan1963 awesome! Thank you so much for the tip! I‘m going to check them out! 2y

PaperbackPirate Hooray for splurges at the bookstore! 📚 2y

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RamsFan1963

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

Nothing nicer, after a hard day at work, to come home to a little bookmail. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in Ann Leckie's series. I'm a bit bummed about the James Blish book. Someone tried to remove the price sticker, and did a piss poor job of it. I'll have to try some glue gone to salvage the cover.

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Lizpixie I hope the 2nd Ancillary book lives up to the 1st for you👍 2y

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RamsFan1963

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

It feels like forever since I made a trip to the used book store. Didn't find much of interest, I was trying to avoid books that were parts of series (gets harder and harder every day).

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tokorowilliamwallace Some nice vintage picks. I still gotta get through my slim 1970 Andre Norton and should get to one of my vintage/early Cherryh volumes I recently acquired soon. Now that I'm finally through my first Ed McBain I can move on to the other volumes. 2y

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