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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Aftermarket Afterlife by seanan McGuire
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:04:06 -0500
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On 9/26/2024 6:45 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> On 9/26/24 15:59, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 9/22/2024 12:58 AM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>> Just finished yesterday
>>>
>>> "Aftermarket afterlife" by Seanan McGuire. this is an novel of a 
>>> series about a groups of scientists who attempt to preserve cryptid 
>>> life forms from dragons to boogeymen. They are heretics and escapees 
>>> from the Covenant of St.George which as you might guess is quite 
>>> interested in making dragons extinct. They are also the object of 
>>> worship by the Aeslin mice which talk a lot. I believe that they 
>>> pretended death and escaped to North America where they do their best 
>>> to protect the strange creatures most of us ignore. The Covenant in 
>>> this novel attacks the Dragon Nest in New York City but only kill a 
>>> female dragon. The male dragon is safe but one of the family members 
>>> is injured and her husband is killed. Now the main POV here is of one 
>>> Ghost named Mary Dunleavy who as explained in the story is the 
>>> Family's babysitter and they can call on her in the dase of distrees. 
>>> Oliva is a 5 year old human child living in the Dragon nest and Mary 
>>> rescues her with the aid of Sarah, a cuckoo (not a bird) who has the 
>>> power of teleportation. And the story goes on from there with Mary 
>>> assuming the role of a general in protecting her family for which she 
>>> has been baby-sitting for over 100 years. All in all a very satisfy 
>>> read.
>>>
>>>      The background remark are intended for a person who is
>>> not reading the series currently.  I try to keep the SA of
>>> the Team Amiga mailing list well entertained with notes
>>> about this sort of thing and manga.
>>>
>>>      bliss
>>
>> Bummer, my cousin's MMPB does not come out until February 25, 2025 
>> which I have ordered.  Are you reading the ebook or the hardback ?
>>
>> https://www.amazon.com/Aftermarket-Afterlife-Seanan-McGuire/ 
>> dp/0756419727/
>>
>> And the next book in the 14 book series comes out in ebook / trade 
>> paperback on March 11, 2025.  I would guess that the MMPB will be out 
>> in 2026.
>>
>> Lynn
>>
>      Whatever I find in the San Francisco Public Library Genre racks.
> Some of is on real book shelves. I believe this was a hard cover book.
> 
>      I do not care for reading text online as it is very hard to
> reproduce the page format of real books.  I have an excellent computer
> but the display is 17 inches which I chose because my vision is
> getting poorer.
>      On the other hand it is better for manga than for text but
> even then I prefer the solid paper versions.
> 
>      bliss

I spend 10 to 12 hours per day on the computer.  The last thing that I 
want to do is read a book on the computer.  Dead Trees Rule !

Lynn