the Dalaverse

Okay, so I didn't know that Connie Willis was coming out with a new novel featuring my favorite time-traveling Oxford historians until tricksterquinn mentioned it yesterday. And it's coming out in exactly two weeks. I need to stay on top of these things!

You guys. YOU GUYS. MR. DUNWORTHY. I AM SO EXCITED, I CANNOT EVEN.

I started rereading Doomsday Book again around this time last year, but temporarily misplaced it before I had gotten very far. I might just have to spend this weekend curled up on OUR NEW COUCH (which is named The Helm, btw) with one of my very favorite books. Sobbing until I can't breathe through a good third of it as usual, of course. I'm pretty sure I reread To Say Nothing of the Dog at some point during the last year. The new one, Blackout, is set in WWII London so I'm guessing it's going to be less the clever caper of the latter and more the soul-crushing literary A-bomb of the former (and Passage), for that matter.

Oh Jesus Christ, Amazon says it's the first of a two-parter. I am choking on the suspense right now and I haven't even read the damned thing.

Man, it's been ages since I was this excited about a new book coming out. It's, like, this and the last new Provost's Dog book, which I still haven't read (although I bought it the day it came out) because I had to work my way through all the Tortall books yet again. That's a lot of books, y'all. I'm almost there, though - reading Terrier before bed and listening to Lady Knight sporadically on my iPod at work. Which will have to be put on hold because CONNIE WILLIS.

... I really meant to do more actual work at work today. But while I'm on Amazon - new Temeraire comes out in Jullllllyyyy ::bounces::