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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Mythopoeic Awards: 2011 Winners Announced

The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture)

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis

The Mythopoeic Awards 2011 Winners were announced this week and a fairy tale title received the nonfiction honor. I am happy for that win--and no, I haven't read the book--and thrilled that Megan Whalen Turner also won for The Queen's Thief series. It is one of my favorites and she is always on auto buy for me.

Myth & Fantasy Studies

The Victorian Press and the Fairy Tale (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) by Caroline E. Sumpter

Children’s Literature

The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, Book 2)

The Thief (The Queen's Thief, Book 1)
The Queen of Attolia (The Queen's Thief, Book 2)
The King of Attolia
A Conspiracy of Kings (Thief of Eddis)

Adult Literature

Redemption in Indigo: a novel by Karen Lord

Inklings Studies

Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis by Michael Ward

The Big Deal on EBooks

Amazon has a discounted ebooks promotion running through July 27th called The Big Deal with over 950 titles. The books range from $.99 to $3.99. I picked up a few that I owned in paper since I am addicted to ereader reading these days, especially big books. A month ago I accidentally killed my Kindle with a freak accident on a Friday night and was at Target buying a Kindle Special Offers to survive the weekend despite guilt over the price. (My husband, bless him, didn't blink because he KNOWS.) I also ended up getting my two existing Kindles replaced with refurbished ones by a very helpful Amazon staff, but I couldn't wait for shipping over the weekend. Now we own three and the special offers Kindle has almost paid for itself with the deals I've received on it in less than six weeks, so guilt be gone. The special offers Kindle is also now available in the 3G edition, meaning you don't need wifi to use it. I prefer the 3G for traveling because I have downloaded a few books in unusual places and thus preserved my sanity.

I work with books all day long. I will always love them. Reading is almost equivalent to breathing for me. But when I am relaxing, I prefer the little device with the simple bookmarking and highlighting. It is light weight and one fisted or even hands free reading with adjustable text size. The book/device disappears and I am a happy, happy reader. And I admit I enjoy reading the shared highlights of other readers, too. It adds a shared reading experience that I never anticipated.

And now for some titles, most fantasy that might appeal here although pretty much all genres and interests are represented in the sale. Some are repeats from previous sales, some are not: