Amazon needs to start teleporting books. I just placed an order of some things that are out now and that I want right off, and some things that aren’t out yet but that I still want right now. A delivery estimate for May 1 to May 21 for Corambis makes me all sad. The reading of the first chapter that Monette put up a while ago on her lj really whet my appetite. And speaking of her livejournal, right now she’s auctioning off three ARCs of Corambis.

I also ordered The Shadow Queen by Anne Bishop, The Last Paladin by Kathleen Bryan (aka Judith Tarr), Lace and Blade, Lace and Blade II and another unreleased item, Kings and Assassins by Lane Robins. Now, if I could only have all of these to curl up with right now, I’d be a happy girl. I am in the mood for fantasy with a good dose of romance and angst.

I should have been spending most of the day on a subtitling job, but I’ve found myself distracted by a few things, such as a couple of posts on a Swedish blog about Science Fiction and Fantasy. One is a longer essay about the two Swedish translations of Tolkien, which raised some very interesting points about how non-native speakers may perceive a language and about the role of the translator, and another is a shorter commentary about fantasy in general.