Posted in Naomi Novik, Stephenie Meyer, Suzanne Brockmann on July 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Suzanne Brockmann’s posted an “Extras” booklet for her Force of Nature book (August 2007) - scroll to the bottom of the page to download. Warning - it’s approx 28 MB in size, so watch out if you’ve a slow Internet connection. It has a brand-new Sam and Alyssa short story (with Jules), plus an POV article [...]
Posted in Camille Bacon-Smith, Elizabeth Peters, Jacqueline Carey, John Flanagan, Kelley Armstrong, TBR on July 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You know the saying about waiting forever for a bus and then three come along at once? Or something like. Anyway, for the past couple of weeks, while I wouldn’t exactly say that I’ve run out of books to read, none of the books in my TBR pile appealed to me.
And then today, my latest Amazon [...]
Posted in Naomi Novik, Patricia Briggs, Sherrilyn Kenyon on July 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Patricia Briggs has put up the cover for the third Mercy book (”Iron Kissed”, out January 2008). Is it just me, or does the cover model look different in this one? Actually, I thought the model for the second book looked different to the first book as well, so never mind.
Naomi Novik’s announced the title of [...]
Posted in JK Rowling on July 21, 2007 | 5 Comments »
No, I didn’t do the midnight queueing, but I was at the store the first thing Saturday morning (and bear in mind I’m not a morning person). Apart from a few breaks for food, I’ve been reading it straight throughout the day.
I thought it was a great end to the series - and that’s all I’m [...]
Posted in TBR on July 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So I decided to go shopping today. After spending an obscene amount on lotions, potions, etc, I stopped by Borders for a breather and came out with a few unexpected books - by unexpected, I mean books I wasn’t planning to get but I got ambushed by the summer offers! And I felt I deserved a [...]
Posted in Thoughts, Web news on July 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Heh. My first post on this subject - mainly because ebooks are not big in the UK. However, things could change, because for the first time, an ebook reader was featured in the lifestyle section of a Sunday national newspaper. Sure, it was a very short article and more along the lines of a “technology of the future” [...]
Posted in Coming soon, Linda Howard, Mary Jo Putney, Nora Roberts on July 8, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been completely caught up in the tennis for the past couple of days, hence the lack of updates. Just watched the Federer-Nadal final, which was the perfect end to the tournament. Though I’m not sure what happened to Federer in the fourth set - I thought he was about to lose it for a [...]
Posted in Anne Bishop, Sarah Monette, Web news on July 4, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Sarah Monette’s posted the first three chapters of her upcoming book “The Mirador” (dark fantasy - August 2007) on her website. This is one of my definite hardcover purchases for August, as I really liked the second book in the series (”The Virtu”). I liked the first book (”Melusine” 
as well, but it was the [...]
Posted in Janet Evanovich, Thoughts on July 1, 2007 | 10 Comments »
It’s raining again and I’ve a bit of a cold - it’s turning out to be a pretty grim weekend! But it is the end of June, and so a good (or logical, anyway) time to look at what I’ve read this month.
I read 22 books this month, which is a lot for me - [...]
