One Book A Week, Week Two
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lagilmanLast week's winner: 
KF_Johnson
The Fine Print, in normal-sized print:
Summer, everyone knows, is for reading. Well, so are Winter, Autumn and Spring, but especially Summer.
So every week, from here through the end of August, I'm going to be giving away a book*. Some of them may be mine, some of them may be by other people. They may be just-out, or entry-points to an on-going series. It will be a totally random and whimsical choice, to keep things interesting.
How do you get in on this? Simple: you comment here on why you need something new to read. Vacation? Stuck in bed with a bad cold? Totally out of book-buying funds? Captured by aliens who insist on a new story every night or they'll eat you?
Tell me.
(you can enter every week, but only once every week. And you MUST identify yourself in your post, either via log-in or a name and contact point. I'm not going to choose anyone who doesn't identify**.)
Ready? Go.
Second Book: Fledgling by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Suddenly, though, the quiet pace of life is shaken by her mother being sent off-world on an impossible and disruptive assignment - and Theo is expected to go with her. And off-world is, definitely, not 'Safe.'"
This isn't brand new, but an easy introduction to the entire Liaden series. And speaking as someone who has fangrrled Lee and Miller over the Liaden series, I freely admit I want to hook new folk in...
(but Friends of Liaden are welcome to try their luck, too!)
*yes, a real, actual, PAPER book.
**the post will 'open' on Monday, and 'close' on Friday. Winners will be chosen over the weekend, and informed the following Monday
KF_JohnsonThe Fine Print, in normal-sized print:
Summer, everyone knows, is for reading. Well, so are Winter, Autumn and Spring, but especially Summer.
So every week, from here through the end of August, I'm going to be giving away a book*. Some of them may be mine, some of them may be by other people. They may be just-out, or entry-points to an on-going series. It will be a totally random and whimsical choice, to keep things interesting.
How do you get in on this? Simple: you comment here on why you need something new to read. Vacation? Stuck in bed with a bad cold? Totally out of book-buying funds? Captured by aliens who insist on a new story every night or they'll eat you?
Tell me.
(you can enter every week, but only once every week. And you MUST identify yourself in your post, either via log-in or a name and contact point. I'm not going to choose anyone who doesn't identify**.)
Ready? Go.
Second Book: Fledgling by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
Theo Waitley has lived all her young life on Delgado, a Safe World that is home to one of the galaxy's premier institutions of higher learning. Suddenly, though, the quiet pace of life is shaken by her mother being sent off-world on an impossible and disruptive assignment - and Theo is expected to go with her. And off-world is, definitely, not 'Safe.'"
This isn't brand new, but an easy introduction to the entire Liaden series. And speaking as someone who has fangrrled Lee and Miller over the Liaden series, I freely admit I want to hook new folk in...
(but Friends of Liaden are welcome to try their luck, too!)
*yes, a real, actual, PAPER book.
**the post will 'open' on Monday, and 'close' on Friday. Winners will be chosen over the weekend, and informed the following Monday
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Need more science fiction!
Date: 2012-07-09 04:26 pm (UTC)Also, ignore the above Twitter name. For some reason LiveJournal has accessed my old name. My current Twitter name is @MontananSky.
Sara
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-09 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-16 12:13 pm (UTC)I'll need a mailing address, please. :-)
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Date: 2012-07-16 02:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-10 08:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-10 09:26 pm (UTC)Because I'm trying for a second time?
Date: 2012-07-12 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-07-12 03:10 pm (UTC)Still, this is a series I've not tried and been told I should.