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I'm a well read grad student who's bluntly honest about all things, although I try to be most honest about myself.   

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Separate Orbits
Yael Mermelstein
Progress: 119/427pages
BATMAN #53 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman53, TomKingBatman53
BATMAN #54 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
MattWagnerBatman54, TomKingBatman54
BATMAN #52 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman52, TomKingBatman52
BATMAN #51 ((DC REBIRTH)) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
LeeWeeksBatman51, TomKingBatman51
Infinity Wars: Iron Hammer (2018) #1 (of 2)
Al Ewing, Humberto Ramos
Champions (2019-) #4
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente
SUICIDE SQUAD #46 ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSS46, RobWilliamsSS46
SUICIDE SQUAD #45 ((SINK ATLANTIS)) ((DC REBIRTH )) ((Regular Cover)) - DC Comics - 2018 - 1st Printing
JosLuisSuicideSquad45, RobWilliamsSuicideSquad45
Champions (2019-) #3
Jim Zub, Jacinto Benavente

Books I got at Readercon Part Two

Handsome Devil: Stories of Sin and Seduction - Richard Bowes, Pat Cadigan, Theodora Goss, Elizabeth Hand, Tanith Lee, Nick Mamatas Fearful Symmetries - Ellen Datlow [ The Dark: New Ghost Stories [ THE DARK: NEW GHOST STORIES ] By Datlow, Ellen ( Author )Sep-01-2004 Paperback - Ellen Datlow Teeth: Vampire Tales - Ellen Datlow;Terri Windling Dying Is My Business - Nicholas Kaufmann Butcher's Road - Lee Thomas Superheroes - Kelly Link, Peter S. Beagle, Rich Horton Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny - Peter Straub, Michael Marshall Smith, Holly Black, Joe R. Lansdale, Steve Berman, Stephen King American Elsewhere - Robert Jackson Bennett The Magician King - Lev Grossman

11. Handsome Devil by Steve Berman.   I bought this because it was on a four books for twenty dollar table, plus I love, love, love Steve Berman.   Then I realized that Theodora Goss - who had a lovely reading - was at Readercon, and signage. 

 

12. Fearful Symmetries edited by Ellen Datlow.  Signed by both Datlow and Gemma Files.   Double yay!

 

13. The Dark edited by Ellen Datlow.   Signed by Datlow. 

 

14. Teeth edited by Ellen Datlow.   Signed by Datlow. 

 

15. Dying is My Business by Nicholas Kaufmann.   Signed by the author.   I also have a version where the printer printed 25 pages of a cozy mystery in the middle of the book.  I got this signed as a curiosity, plus Kaufmann has a PDF of the pages on his site.   He told the story in his Kaffeklatsch.   So fun!  

 

http://www.nicholaskaufmann.com/books/dying-is-my-business/

 

The story was better hearing it in person and getting to ask what book it was from.  It's bizarre.   Different font and type size and different chapter headings.   There are ads for the author's other book, then Kaufmann's book continues.   I'm actually really eager to suddenly go from dark fantasy to... Cornwall.   Kaufmann said he'd hoped there would be discussions about how he was doing something with narrative, but, nope...

 

16. Butcher Road by Lee Thomas.   Kaufmann introduced me.   Yay!   Got this signed.   And Thomas wasn't at the con that long.   And I got to see his chest.   Yeah, strip show, guys, strip show.   Kinda.   In public.   It was amazing!

 

17. Superheroes edited by Rich Horton.   Signed by Leah Bobet.   I love Leah, and have since I met her at an earlier Readercon.   Even if you're not into her genres, if you ever see her at a con, say hi.   She's just super-sweet and super-funny. 

 

18. Bad Seeds edited by Steve Berman.   Because I love Berman.   Also, Files.   Gemma signed this for me, as well. 

 

19. American Elsewhere by Robert Jackson Bennett.   Bennett is amazing, as is his agent. They were both very kind about the misprinting, and his agent is going to try to get me a pristine, signed, copy.   If it doesn't work out, as I told her, so long as I can read that part in the Kindle sample, I am happy!  I did e-mail her with a reminder of the printing issue, just in case any others have it, with the faulty printed page number.  Whatever happens happens.   I can still read this, skimmed through the rest - it's six hundred, close to seven hundred pages - and it looks like this might be the only blip.   Anyway, I wasn't going to mention it, but people said they'd want to know, and they did.   They were, as I said, very gracious.   And this book is amazingly compulsive.   Addictive, even.   It's always nice when awesome writers turn out to be awesome people, too!

 

20. The Magician King by Lev Grossman.   This is a weird category.   Signed with a happy birthday message for a friend.   Bought it a year ago, got it signed this year.  Unfortunately, he had an emergency last year, and had to cancel!   Still, he was pleased to hear that I'd held onto the book for a year, and thrilled that my friend was such a huge fan!