No New Books for April

I keep a page of new releases for each month. I keep it to make sure I don’t forget any books, any series. Plus, it’s just a way to keep track of release dates from favorite writers and series.

I still get lots of books from the library, and if you don’t get bestsellers the day of release from them, it will months before they became available. So release dates are a good thing to keep track of.

Mind, I find books during the month that never showed up on the list. So it’s not a to be read list. (The TBR list is much much bigger.)

April’s list has 7 books:

1. The Lingering Dead by J.N. Duncan: April 1, 2012
2. The Shape of Desire by Sharon Shinn: April 3, 2012
3. The Calling by Kelley Armstrong: April 10, 2012
4. Royal Street, by Suzanne Johnson: April 10 2012
5. Beauty by LKH: April 24 2012
6. Crystal Gardens by Amanda Quick: April 24, 2012
7. The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King: April 24, 2012
8. Lies & Omens by Lyn Benedict: April 24, 2012

I didn’t get any of these. None. It I thought I would, at least Crystal Gardens and maybe The Shape of Desire, too. But I didn’t. I mean, I want to read them, but I don’t feel motivated to actually get any of them.

The only new book I got this April is Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear and it came out in March. Right at the moment, I am reading Intruder by C. J. Cherryh. It came out in March, too, and that’s when I got it.

Usually I get one or two out of the whole month’s list. It’s a new record for me.

Teaser Tuesday: Intruder

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

* Grab your current read
* Open to a random page
* Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
* BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
* Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teasers:

Thunder cracked – worrisome for electronics, but he wasn’t working on his computer this trip. That machine had far, far too much in its storage to be bringing it into Taisigi territory, and he’d sent it on to the capital with his valets and significant items of furniture, the computer itself to be hand carried and guarded every step of the way. The spiral-bound notebook was enough for him, along with a stack a loose-leaf work and printouts, and within the briefcase, a folder of very official papers, vellum with red and black wax seals and carefully preserved ribbons.

- Intruder by C. J. Cherryh