Posted in Charlaine Harris, Eileen Wilks, Web news on December 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Despite me not completely loving the last two books in the series, Charlaine Harris‘ Sookie Stackhouse series remains one of my favourite urban fantasy series out there. Ms Harris has put up an excerpt for the latest Sookie story “From Dead to Worse” (May 2008). Also another kooky cartoon-like cover.
Another of my favourite urban fantasy [...]
Posted in Thoughts on December 27, 2007 | 6 Comments »
One of the reasons I started this blog was because I wanted somewhere to keep track of my reading, and this is a good time to take a look back at my reading over 2007.
Although there are lists of books read each month on my sidebar, I’ve rapidly realised that they aren’t good enough for detailed analysis (because I don’t [...]
Posted in Blog on December 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Have a great day!
Edited to say: I love WordPress - check out the falling snow (only until 2 Jan)
Posted in Jo Beverley, Tracy Grant, Web news on December 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Christmas is an exhausting time of year! Monday’s mince pies and champagne party started off the week (btw, I do not recommend three-and-a-half glasses of champagne on an empty stomach), Tuesday was a mad after-work dash through the shops to get last-minute presents, Wednesday was a complete disaster at work, and Thursday was the big [...]
Posted in Diana Gabaldon, Web news on December 16, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been debating whether to get the new Diana Gabaldon novella collection (”Lord John and the Hand of Devils” 
- I’ve already read two, but you know, there is one new story, and it’ll be nice to have them all in a single book…
I need to be sensible, but it’s difficult when they’ve given it [...]
Posted in Elizabeth Peters, Web news on December 15, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Elizabeth Peters has her winter newsletter up on her website, and it says that a new Vicky Bliss book, “The Laughter of Dead Kings”, is out in September 2008 *happy dance*
Sounds vaguely Egyptian, doesn’t it? I still have to track down the fifth VB book, and since I’ve a thing about reading a series in [...]
Posted in JK Rowling on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Amazon has bought JK Rowling’s “The Tales of Beedle the Bard” for £1.95 million (full story and pictures on Amazon’s website).
I admit I was a bit “ehhh” when I heard Ms Rowling was planning on writing this book. Well, actually, my first thought was “Hand-written? Who writes books by hand nowadays? And how difficult will [...]
Posted in Jacqueline Carey, Web news on December 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Jacqueline Carey has posted the cover for her upcoming book “Kushiel’s Mercy”. This is the last book in the Imriel trilogy and is out in June 2008. The cover’s lovely, and possibly the best in the series so far. Very lush and evocative. I like how the model’s eyes are hidden, also the hint of [...]
Posted in Jenna Black, Reviews on December 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“The Devil Inside” by Jenna Black (urban fantasy) was an impulse buy while browsing in the New Releases section - I liked the cover, there was a Kelley Armstrong blurb on the front, I was intrigued by the couple of pages I read… so thought why not? Excerpt here.
Having read more than a few so-so urban fantasy [...]
Posted in Coming soon, Jim Butcher, Julie Garwood on December 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
New releases that I’m keeping an eye out for this month…
“Shadow Music” by Julie Garwood (historical romance) - I’m really excited about this one! A new Scottish historical from Julie Garwood *happy dance* She was one of the first authors who introduced me to romance (along with Judith McNaught and Amanda Quick a.k.a. Jayne Ann Krentz) and [...]
