[QuickTidal]

Speaking of Pre-Orders, it's been a banger week cause this also came up for pre-order. Get on it!

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[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 21 November 2025 - 01:52 PM, said:

Speaking of Pre-Orders, it's been a banger week cause this also came up for pre-order. Get on it!
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instant pre-order!

[Tiste Simeon]

Abyss, on 21 November 2025 - 02:32 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 21 November 2025 - 01:52 PM, said:

Speaking of Pre-Orders, it's been a banger week cause this also came up for pre-order. Get on it!
...

instant pre-order!

That first one was excellent (the audiobook narrators were great) so I'll be getting this too!

[JPK]

So I'm trying to limit myself to buying 1 book a month for my shelves so that I can actually polish off my dead-tree trp within a year or so. I think this is also helping me be slightly pickier about which books I'm willing to buy as I've find myself to be a bit more adverse to risking buying a book I might not like.

November was No Life Forsaken and January is a no brainer with Twelve Months coming up.

This month was a bit harder though. I almost landed on The Strength of the Few but Islington but then an author I haven't touched on awhile dropped a book that has me very intrigued. Mark Z Danielewski (of House of Leaves) dropped Tom's Crossing, which appears to be a Western stylized ghost story and the blurb is crazy.

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While folks still like to focus on the crimes that shocked the small city of Orvop, Utah, back in the fall of 1982, not to mention the trials that followed, far more remember the adventure that took place beyond municipal lines in mountains ready to shrug even the bravest from their backs, as one Orvop local would put, with another characterizing the astonishing journey as crazy as it was foolish as it still is just plain beyond imaginin. But them kids went for it anyway.

Not that such daring was entirely unexpected considering how some of those involved included the likes of young Tom Gatestone, already a bit of an Orvop legend, and his friend Kalin March, new to the area, the two of them takin it upon themselves to rescue a couple of neglected horses from the Porch paddocks on Willow and Oak.

Who knows what would have happened if they hadn’t?

For sure no one expected the dead to rise but they did. For sure no one expected the mountain to fall but it did. For sure no one expected an act of courage so great, and likewise so appalling, that it still staggers the heart and mind of anyone who knows anything about the Katanogos massif to say nothing of Pillars Meadow.

As one Orvop high-school teacher would describe that extraordinary feat days before she died: Fer sure, no one expected Kalin March to tell Old Porch: You get what you deserve when you ride with cowards.

So yeah, I'm a bit excited for this one.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Does anyone know what's up with book 3 of Redick's Fire Sacraments? It's been a long while since book 2.

I think Redick is pretty underrated on the fantasy scene tbh.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 27 December 2025 - 05:56 AM, said:

Does anyone know what's up with book 3 of Redick's Fire Sacraments? It's been a long while since book 2.

I think Redick is pretty underrated on the fantasy scene tbh.

Welp, guess I could have searched the answer before posting here. He posted on his blog in 2023, and it sounds like a trifecta of:
1. Writer's block
2. Chronic pain/injury
3. Money

He wrote: "I'm also, frankly, broke, which means I'm putting in more hours in the day job than I'd prefer." Which is tough to read — being a successful author should grant enough income to live on!

But, the silver lining is that, as of 2023, he was 80% done with writing the book and was very happy with it. 2026 release perhaps?

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 27 December 2025 - 06:02 AM

[Mentalist]

grabbed a few things while out on Boxing day

-Drawing of the Three- I figure it's time to give up on the vanity project of reading this in French, and finally go through The Dark Tower in the upcoming year.

-Polostan- it's a Stephenson book. That's one of the few authors I'm willing to consider buying anything by.

"Sons of Darkness" by Gourav Mohanty- blurb sounded neat, and "ASoIaF, but Indian" is a good hook.

Jotted down a few other authors to check out on goodreads, may look into grabbing a few more things before heading back North in January.

This post has been edited by Mentalist: 28 December 2025 - 09:21 PM

[Abyss]

Not technically books i bought today as the pre-orders are already in, but i just noticed Seanan McGuire's next WAYWARD CHILDREN books lands tomorrow, and 15 days from now Butcher's TWELVE MONTHS and Clines' GOD'S JUNK DRAWER both drop!


YAY!!!

[QuickTidal]

For Xmas I got:

THE ROSE FIELD by Phillip Pullman, finishing out the Dust trilogy.

EMILY WILDE'S MAP OF THE OTHERLANDS by Heather Fawcett

EMILY WILDE'S COMPENDIUM OF LOST TALES by Heather Fawcett

DRUMINDOR by Michael J. Sullivan

and a bunch of gift cards, which I am putting towards Manga and Light novels...

The first of which I already grabbed, THE REIGN OF THE SEVEN SPELLBLADES (Volume 1) by Bokuto Uno which I'll take on vacation, so not reading it right away.

[Abyss]

Abyss, on 04 January 2026 - 06:36 PM, said:

Not technically books i bought today as the pre-orders are already in, but i just noticed Seanan McGuire's next WAYWARD CHILDREN books lands tomorrow, and 15 days from now Butcher's TWELVE MONTHS and Clines' GOD'S JUNK DRAWER both drop!


YAY!!!

...and seven days later Charlie Stross' LAUNDRY FILES finale, THE REGICIDE REPORT.... damn i'm eating well for January!

[JPK]

Abyss, on 05 January 2026 - 07:19 PM, said:

Abyss, on 04 January 2026 - 06:36 PM, said:

Not technically books i bought today as the pre-orders are already in, but i just noticed Seanan McGuire's next WAYWARD CHILDREN books lands tomorrow, and 15 days from now Butcher's TWELVE MONTHS and Clines' GOD'S JUNK DRAWER both drop!


YAY!!!

...and seven days later Charlie Stross' LAUNDRY FILES finale, THE REGICIDE REPORT.... damn i'm eating well for January!

I'd forgotten to account for THE REGICIDE REPORT and GOD'S JUNK DRAWER in my audiobook plans this month. Time to revisit my plans again, I think. Thanks for the reminder.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

My free audiobook pick for this month from my second Amazon Music four month free trial is The Spear Cuts Through Water.

[Tiste Simeon]

So I know I'm not meant to be buying books at present but I got some Waterstones gift cards for Christmas so it would be rude not to.

I bought Slow Gods by Claire North and There is No Antiemetics Division by Qntm. Looking forward to reading both!

[Abyss]

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 27 December 2025 - 06:01 AM, said:

Whisperzzzzzzz, on 27 December 2025 - 05:56 AM, said:

Does anyone know what's up with book 3 of Redick's Fire Sacraments? It's been a long while since book 2.

I think Redick is pretty underrated on the fantasy scene tbh.

Welp, guess I could have searched the answer before posting here. He posted on his blog in 2023, and it sounds like a trifecta of:
1. Writer's block
2. Chronic pain/injury
3. Money

He wrote: "I'm also, frankly, broke, which means I'm putting in more hours in the day job than I'd prefer." Which is tough to read — being a successful author should grant enough income to live on!

But, the silver lining is that, as of 2023, he was 80% done with writing the book and was very happy with it. 2026 release perhaps?

Dammit.