Books Bought March 1st

65) The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov - Paul Russell (new, paperback)

Where? Kenny's

Irish online bookseller offering "free" delivery and a fair to good selection of books? I possible replacement for my beloved book depository? We shall see.

Why?
I've already mentioned this one.
Paul Russell's (presumably somewhat fictionalized) biography of Vladimir Nabokov's younger brother, who lived in Europe during WWII and died in a concentration camp. I wasn't totally aware of how fixated I'd become on this one til it arrived in the office today and I shrieked and jumped up and down a little.
I have assured myself of Russell's literary chops, read up on the facts of Sergey's life, and suffered through Vladimir Nabokov's own book about estranged brothers.
I have never been so prepared to read a book.

The Damage: €13.50

The Amazing Scott Lynch Read-Along

So, since I've got the outrageous book-buying addiction under control (sort of, I've cut my spending a little and my buying no longer out paces my reading) I'm going to do more interesting things with this blog*.




As a first step I'll be participating in the Scott Lynch read along that's been organized by some great bloggers
Little Red Reviewer
Dark Cargo
MyAwfulReviews
Dark Cargo Explorer  

@ohthatashley at SF Signal

"This spring, I invite you to join Dark Cargo, My Awful Reviews, @OhthatAshley posting at SF Signal, and Dark Cargo Explorer and Yours Truly on an epic journey through the elderglass towers, the corrupt marketplaces, the shark infested waters beneath the pirate ship fortresses, and the thief prowling alleys and bridges of Camorr. I invite you to join us on what could be the reading experience of your life. I invite you to join us on our read along of Scott Lynch’s debut novel The Lies of Locke Lamora, the unassuming looking fantasy novel that started cults, inspired restraining order style behavior, and quite possibly changed everyone’s ideas of dark fantasy and antiheroes. Don’t worry, we’ll be reading Red Seas Under Red Skies as well. Can’t have a summer without pirates, now can we?" - from Little Red Reviewer

For those who want to join in the reading plan is as follows

Week 1-  Read prologue thru end of Interlude called “Locke Stays for Dinner”. Discussion questions go out on March 8, posts go up on Saturday March 10

Week 2 –  Read Chapter three thru end of Interlude called “The Boy who Cried for a Corpse”, Discussion questions go out on March  15 , posts go up on Saturday March 17.

Week 3 – Read Chapter five thru end of Interlude called “The Half Crown War”.  Discussion questions go out on March  22, posts go up on Saturday March 24.

Week 4 – Read Chapter nine thru Interlude called “Orchids and Assassins”.  Discussion questions go out March 29, posts go up on March 31

Week 5 – Read chapter 14 thru end of the book.  Discussion questions go out April 5th, posts go up April 7th.

The read along kicked off at the weekend (I'm late posting because I was at P-Con) and to mark the occasion Scott Lynch himself posted some great information about the genesis of The Lies of Locke Lamora over at his livejournal






*not a guarantee