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books, sunday book coveting

Dewey did a project called Sunday Book Coveting each Sunday, talking about the books she had found the previous week and wanted to read. I used to joke with her that one day I was going to steal the idea and repeat her entire post, because half the books she wanted to read I also wanted to read because she had made them sound so awesome (she had this habit of doing that with...almost everything). Because I'm a flake that never happened! Why write posts when I could be writing boys kissing! My writing (and writing goals) have plummeted to depths of misery previously inexperienced by myself, so why not write a nerdy book post about books I haven't read? I add them to GoodReads already, but I don't talk about why I added them, so! The power of tl;dr compels me. :D



1. One Second After by William R. Forstchen: I'm ignoring the questionable science in this book because hooray! An electromagnetic pulse destroys America's technological structure and all hell breaks loose! I've read comparisons between this book and On the Beach but damn, I hope not. The epithets in that book were like a outbreak of kudzu and no one cared about the massive spot on the SF canon where nothing creative could grow because it had been murdered. Murdered by epithets. I forget where I heard about this. Bonus: at least I will maybe remember who recced me books in the future now? Maybe?

2. The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan. Partial summary:

Nick and his brother, Alan, have spent their lives on the run from magic. Their father was murdered, and their mother was driven mad by magicians and the demons who give them power. The magicians are hunting the Ryves family for a charm that Nick's mother stole -- a charm that keeps her alive -- and they want it badly enough to kill again. ... Ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse, Nick starts to suspect that his brother is telling him lie after lie about their past. As the magicians' Circle closes in on their family, Nick uncovers the secret that could destroy them all.

Every time I read about this book I think about Supernatural. I've been hearing so much about this title and it's not even published yet, which means I have to hop on the bandwagon immediately to get a good spot. Also, brothers! Running for lives! Secrets!



3. Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist. I read a review of this somewhere but didn't save it, and finally Chris reviewed it so I'll just blame him for it all. He liked Twilight, so since he says this book takes Twilight out back for a talking to, I'm inclined to believe him. From the summaries, it seems a bullied, tormented Oskar meets a mysterious girl who is more than see seems right around the time a series of murders starts to take place in Oskar's town. There's a movie version, as well, which from the trailer looks sufficiently creepy.

4. Sprout by Dale Peck. Sprout is moved by his father (alcoholic and possibly disturbed?) to Kansas, where he has to start a new school and generally deal with life. Really, what sold me on this wasn't that Sprout is gay, it's that in the summary, it says he has a secret, and it's not that he's gay. So I was sold. I saw this on someone's In My Mailbox post or perhaps somewhere else! I have no idea. It doesn't come out until the 26th, though.



5. Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free by Charles P. Pierce. The title is inflammatory enough to get attention, but I wonder about the content. I haven't read the most cited book on anti-intellectualism, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (because it's hard to find and expensive when I do), so I keep my eye out for newer books discussing the subject in a modern context. All the summaries I find of this title discuss the chasm between creationists and science, and it was this part of one summary that got me:

In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a saddle.... But worse than this was when the proprietor exclaimed to a cheering crowd, "We are taking the dinosaurs back from the evolutionists!" He knew then and there it was time to try and salvage the Land of the Enlightened, buried somewhere in this new Home of the Uninformed.

Emphasis mine. Um. I'd ride it?

6. The Ask and the Answer: Chaos Walking Book Two by Patrick Ness. The follow-up to The Knife of Never Letting Go, which I posted about so everyone would drop everything and go out and read it (I think I only got yati, though, but she loved it! She told me so!) I love this book so much I almost imported the sequel using spindizzy's nationality to my advantage (the U.K. copy comes out...NOW! The U.S. copy...SEPTEMBER). I was struck down by the lightning of living in poverty! Importing books is hard when you've also got to eat, true story. Also, I think I want the U.S. cover more than the U.K. cover, which is odd! Usually I find the U.K. covers gorgeous but the U.S. covers are using the sky really effectively. I'm a sucker for the sky!

Who else is going to read the first book and come suffer in agony over the sequel? yati and I will keep you company!