Ye Olde Partners
Page
*A Collection of
Antiquarian Curios & Relics*
"HIC SVNT
DRACONES. . ."
--Anonymous
(Please
read the following while playing Queen's Dragon Attack on repeat.)
1) DRAGONS OF AUTUMN
TWILIGHT . . . It's that time of year again: March
Madness. It is estimated that American companies will forfeit over $168
gazillion dollars1 to lost
man hours during the NCAA Basketball Championship Tournament this year. I
can still picture ESPN host Stuart Scott breaking down the brackets for the
network in the past. However, this year he lost his long battle with
cancer and the world is a worse place for it. Fortunately, he managed to
complete his memoir, Every Day I Fight (9780399174063) 26.95, before he
went to that Great Hardwood Floor in the sky. He seemed to be one of the
most knowledgeable and more affable hosts on ESPN, and he will be greatly
missed. In fact, I am going to purposely bust my brackets in his honor .
. .
2) DRAGONS OF WINTER NIGHT .
. . Death marches on. Death was an occasional lead
character in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. This past week, Mr.
Pratchett, to the world's great loss, has decided to personally join Death for
his upcoming adventures. Myself, I haven't read any of Sir Pratchett's
books. I like my fantasy to be serious. I guess that's why I
couldn't make it through the first Harry Potter book either. But humor
has its place. As just another nameless face in the fantasy community,
you would run into his prodigous output again and again. Obviously,
anyone who was a close friend of Neil Gaiman2 must have been one heck of a guy. Sir
Pratchett did leave one last collection of stories for young readers, Dragons
at Crumbling Castle: And Other Tales (9780544466593) 16.99, and it is
selling well. Death posted this tweet: AT LAST, SIR TERRY, WE MUST
WALK TOGETHER . . .
3) DRAGONS OF SPRING DAWNING
. . . Hey, did anybody mention dragons? We had our good
friend and author Rachel Hartman stop in today to sign our copies of Seraphina
(9780375866227) 10.99 and the sequel, Shadow Scale (9780375866579)
18.99. Like a meeting of like-minded condottieri, Emily-the media escort,
Rachel, and I hunkered down around the table as she autographed her books and
talked about The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, George R.R. Martin,
and of course, Terry Pratchett. She pays a lovely homage to Sir Pratchett
on her blog (March 13, 2015): http://rachelhartmanbooks.com/blog
. If you're into fantasy, I highly recommend her books . .
.
1
According
to the MUNWPOOBI (The Made Up Numbers We Pulled Out of Our Butt Institute).
2 He
said, "I miss my friend, I miss him so much."
Odds
& Sods
Sleeper
Alert! Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler's Bold: How to Go Big, Create
Wealth and Impact the World (9781476709567) 28.00 has been trickling out of
here over the past few days. It's a guide to utilizing technology
in the 21st century business world. Abundance (9781451616835)
16.00, their first title sold . . . abundantly the last time around . . .
Another one to
keep an eye on is Jennifer Robson's After the War is Over
(9780062334633) 14.99. It takes place after The Great War and it
sounds kind of Downton Abbey-ish, as did her first book, Somewhere in France
(9780062273451) 14.99. Cheerio!
No comments:
Post a Comment