Saturday is Haul Day 6!!

 

This week's bag of goodies consists of:  Filth, a film starring James McAvoy and Jamie Bell, is based on a novel by the same man that wrote Trainspotting, so it promises to be something interesting.  Lev Grossman's The Magicians, which I'm excited to get started on next:

Quentin Coldwater is brillant but miserable. He's a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he's still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a kid, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Compared to that, anything in his real life just seems gray and colorless.

Everything changes when Quentin finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. But something is still missing. Magic doesn't bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he though it would.

Then, after graduation, he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real.

There's also A Natural History of Dragons:  A Memoir by Lady Trent by Marie Brennan:

All the world, from Scirland to the farthest reaches of Eriga, know Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world’s preeminent dragon naturalist. She is the remarkable woman who brought the study of dragons out of the misty shadows of myth and misunderstanding into the clear light of modern science. But before she became the illustrious figure we know today, there was a bookish young woman whose passion for learning, natural history, and, yes, dragons defied the stifling conventions of her day.

Here at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, her prospects, and her fragile flesh and bone to satisfy her scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana, where she made the first of many historic discoveries that would change the world forever.

Marie Brennan introduces an enchanting new world in A Natural History of Dragons.

Rounding everything out we've got:  Supreme Blue Rose #2 by Warren Ellis and Tula Latoy, Trees #4 by Warren Ellis and Jason Howard and The Wicked + The Divine #3 by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson and Clayton Cowles.

This week brings more choices than the previous couple and I barely know where to start.  So many choices and so little time!