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I’m planning out some stuff for February already and have decided to do a book give away February 7th. But this time I’d like some input. Which series would you be interested in? Each series is complete and they are in hardcover. Let me know with your vote.
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Do we get to pick who they are given away to?
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I hadn’t thought of that, but that would be a unique way to do a giveaway 😀
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That’s a nice thing to do, but I’ll pass, the postage to here would be astronomical!
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I know. I had someone mail me a hardcover recently and when I found out how much the shipping was, I realized I’d never do one of these giveaways internationally. It’s crazy!
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Now, they can’t say I didn’t vote!
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* salutes and sings the National Anthem *
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Yeah, but who is Jose? And why is everyone wanting to know if he can see in the morning?
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You don’t know who Jose is? My goodness, what kind of schooling are kids getting these days?
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The kind that makes you question everything because it’s not hardly enough. Now, we have upheavals and book clubs in the form of comedic blogs and stabs at proverbial archetechs ( yes, I just made a new word. we just need to find out how to get it in the dichtionary ).
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Sorry, any word not in Webster’s 1812 dictionary just isn’t real 😉
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Not even if it is in Francis Grose’s 1811 “Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue”?
There are a lot of words there that, if not in common use nowadays, certainly ought to be
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Nope, not even then. I have a strict “Get thee behind me, new word!” policy. So get thee off the invisible web and beginnest thou to type on ye old calculating machine! Forsooth!
😉
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How will the votes be tabulated? Will neutral observers be present?
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I’m going to use those new voting machines we talked about yesterday. Give them a good trial run…
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Make sure you synch them up to the Korean servers, and clear the cache unless you want two million votes for Joe Biden in your book poll!
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You mean I can give Biden away to the North Koreans? Man, what a treasure trove these voting machines are turning out to be!
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No, these votes were already used, either delete them of use them for your poll. Hugo Chavez thanks you for your purchase…
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Rats. I thought I was onto something there.
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This comment thread is awesome, lol!
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We try 😀
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Tad is the only author out of the three that I have ever heard of. Rest are all new to me…
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Kurtz wrote in the 70’s and 80’s (I don’t even know if she’s still alive to be honest) and outside of the Otori books, I’ve never heard of Hearn either…
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If I wanted to take part in this I’d opt for Tad at least i think. Never went for a book by an author I know nothing of, apart from when I saw the cover for Bonehunters which I later discovered was book how many in the Malazan series…
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Yep, stick to what you know. Always safest that way 😀
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Katherine Kurtz’ Deryni books are awesome! I think she said at one point years ago the characters just stopped speaking to her, so the series was over. Lian Hearne has a relatively new series going, which starts with Emperor of the Eight Islands: Book 1 in the Tale of Shikanoko
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ha! Now that you mention Shikanoko, I remember that I read the first one. I stopped due to some of the content.
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I’ll abstain, since there’s no way I’d be getting any of these at my end of the world 😉
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Yeah, I’m not surprised 🙂
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Tad gets my vote! I probably won’t be entering any giveaways though, too many books already.
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Hahahaa! Yeah, you are definitely someone who has books coming out their ears!
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They are all verra nice, but I’ve already got one!
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Eh, it’s been long enough so you can enter again ifyou want.
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Actually, I meant I already have the Deryni and Otherland books!
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Oh, gotcha.
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And I just found a 1st edition hardcover Saint Camber.
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Just squinting at the pictures, I’d go for the series on the left, because they remind me of The Black Cauldron.
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They should all be clickable for larger pix.
But you are correct. Those are Darryl K Sweet covers and I believe he might have had a hand in either the covers for some of the Prydain books (they had several releases) or he might have been involved with the disney cartoon movie….
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The Tales of Otori seems really nice! Maybe I should try and pick it up somewhere
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If you like alt-history with a touch of magic, for Japan, this is good stuff. Ends very eastern…
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Maybe I will try and see if I can fetch it up. Also, I see that you are giving away 5 books of that saga, but I see that the Italian version is a trology; do you think that two of the books weren’t translated or they fused them in 3 books?
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I suspect the prequel and sequel weren’t translated. It was originally a trilogy then got both when they were popular enough.
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Oh! Good to know! I will look out for the english version then 🙂 thank you!
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Such fascinating beautiful books! Have you looked into how the shipping was affected by the pandemic? I think USA-CND’s shipping got hellish these past months…
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I’m only aware of shipping due to our reliance on buying “stuff” through amazon. Forget 2 day shipping anymore, even with Prime AND their own fleet of incompetent delivery people.
When stuff does go through usps it takes longer. or it gets stuck at certain centers (ie, California) muuuuuuch longer.
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