This Is Why The Age of Print Will Never End

Okay, about a week ago I was talking to my mom - or, well, whinging about how I was reading only textbooks or travel books and all I wanted to do was read a novel. To which my mom went, "so read a novel."

So I picked up Martha Wells' Wheel of the Infinite. Now, I bought this paperback from a used bookstore, so it had that really nice, really intense used-book smell. You know the one I mean, right?

Last friday, I went down to the local independent bookstore, which has an espresso book machine (aka, a machine that can print a book in about, oh, fifteen minutes. Watching it was so cool - it had this great hot ink smell too.

All of which makes me know that books are not going anywhere in the long term. I highly doubt that most people who be able to give up the sheer tactile pleasure of books.

Now, on to the books themselves....

Like Death of a Necromancer, Wheel of the Infinite suffers from not being The Fall of the Ile-Rien trilogy. ( more )

Now, on to The Shadow Queen, which I loved so, so, so, so so much. Not since Queen of the Darkness have a loved an Anne Bishop book this much.

( deliciously dark details )

One More Thing I Forgot To Mention

Okay, the trope of the disgraced yet honorable warrior/body guard?

Is totally one of my beloved story telling tropes.

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