So much for keeping up with this. A lot is going on, though it feels like it's going so slowly. I'm still looking for a job, and today will be my fourth visit to the TV station where I'm trying to get a freelance editing position. So I feel good about it, really good, but I also don't want to get my hopes too high because I've had situations where I've been totally sure I'd get the job and then didn't and that felt awful.
Other news, I got a great review copy yesterday, or at least I think so. It looks good anway. It's called Jonathan Stroud and Mr. Novell (or at least I think it is, I don't have it with me at the time). Did anyone else get one? I still haven't read a book this year that I like as much as the Time Traveller's Wife and I'm hoping to find one soon. Well, ok, not true, I just read Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner and totally loved it, and you should all read it too because it's just a fabulous book. But it came out a few years ago so doesn't count. I'm reading the Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde and Blue Blood by Edward Conlon right now. Edward? Someone. Again, book in other room, me lazy. Fritz is freaking out, we have a bunch of people in the house tearing up carpeting and putting in hardwood floors and he only feels good when my Mom's around. He's having a rough time making do with me. But tell me what you think of the books. And Laura, if you get a review copy of Iron Council by China Mieville and don't want it, send it my way please.
Posted by minka at June 29, 2004 03:46 PMI'm dying to read Iron Council, too.
Don't read any of the promotional materials for it; China says that whatever the book company wrote gives away major, major plot points and basically spoils the entire book. I know they ended up pulling the jacket copy & redoing a lot of stuff to fix it, and even now months later Amazon has no description for the book at all.
I hated that Jasper Fforde book, the Eyre Affair or whatever. Strangely, at the same time I was trying to read a book with a somewhat-vaguely-similar theme, Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog. I didn't like that one much either, although the first chapter was ridiculous and wonderful, and the chapter headings made me giggle quite a bit.
Posted by: brian w at June 29, 2004 05:09 PMI knew you'd hate the Eyre Affair! I think I stated it to you while at that shop in Manhattan. Speaking of which, Brian - do you remember that book Maisie Dobbys by Jacqueline Winspear that the clerk told was good even though the cover is atrocious (it has a picture of a girl in a cloche which you'd think I'd like until you realized it was schlacked on this metallic gold background). Anyway, I picked it up today. If it's goodish, then I'll send it along with the Burroughs ARC.
I just got a huge box of ARCs but no Iron Council. Actually, there wasn't anything that really looked good. Russell Banks ARC was in there. Anyone interested?
Glad to see you updating again, Megan
Posted by: Ll at July 3, 2004 08:13 AM