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Book of the Week: A Song for Arbonne.

It being Sunday, we replace Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals with Guy Gavriel Kay’s A Song for Arbonne – a older book, but a fine one, and an excellent introduction to Kay’s work. Given that he’s finally given out information about his next book (Under Heaven, drawing from Tang Dynasty China, due in Spring of 2010), this gives some of you plenty of time to get up to speed on the author, and why you’ll want this one in hardback.

Book of the week: Unseen Academials (Discworld)

And so, we go from Neil Gaiman’s Coraline to Terry Pratchett’s Unseen Academicals. No, it’s not out yet. But it will be, in about a month – which should be enough lead time for me to be able to splurge on the hardcover.

Hey, it’s Pratchett.

Book of the Week: Coraline.

This week, we leave behind The Breath of God and replace it with Coraline – and I suspect that it’ll be Movie of the Week, too. I quite enjoyed it.

Book of the Week: The Breath of God.

Finally, yes: we’ll switch out SM Stirling’s The Sword of the Lady for Harry Turtledove’s The Breath of God, which is his sequel to Beyond the Gap. It’s pretty much an alien invasion series, only set during a Bronze Age with magic, and with no spaceships.

Book of the Week: erm.

It’s weird, actually: thanks to the generosity of a RedState reader I finally got around to reading Liberal Fascism (good book, but I knew most of it already; still, nice to have it collated) and I just snagged Hitler’s War today. I think that I’ve used both of them for Books of the Week, though, so recycling either wouldn’t really work.

Anybody have a suggestion of a good one?

Book of the Week: The Sword of the Lady.

It being Sunday, we remove Harry Turtledove’s Hitler’s War – which I will figure out how to acquire in a week or so; and bring in S.M. Stirling’s The Sword of the Lady, which I have an entire month to figure out how to acquire. It’s good for me, really. Teaches me resourcefulness.

Really.

Moe Lane

Book of the Week: Hitler’s War.

It being Sunday, it is time to change the Book of the Week; and so we switch out Where the Deep Ones Are with Hitler’s War, mostly because I can’t wait for it to come out. I’m weak like that.

Book of the Week: “You can do anything, Daddy.”

It being Father’s Day, we shall determinedly pick something much, much lighter than The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution this time around. I have received for my Father’s Day present You Can Do Anything, Daddy, which is a children’s book that features robot gorilla pirates from Mars.

I am proud of the fact that my loved ones instinctively know that this sort of book is a perfect match for me. So: Book of the Week.

Moe Lane

Book of the Week: The Persian Night.

In tune with the generally-more-serious-than-I-personally-like kind of weekend that we’ve had here, we now replace Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . with The Persian Night: Iran under the Khomeinist Revolution. Personally, I’d have preferred something a bit less unfortunately pertinent to current events, but Michael Totten insists that people need to read this, and he’s one of the go-to new media guys on the region.

Moe Lane

Book of the Week: “Death from the Skies!”

And so we say goodbye to Victory of Eagles (Temeraire). With a title like Death from the Skies!: These Are the Ways the World Will End . . . would already be a shoo-in for Book of the Week – I’m the sort of person who enjoyed Pocket Guide To The Apocalypse: The Official Field Manual For The End Of The World – but this book has… friends.

Dun dun DUN!!!!!