Posted in Ebooks, Thoughts on January 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I’ve have my Sony Reader for a couple of weeks now, and the novelty still hasn’t worn off!
I had to go to the doctor’s the other day, and instead of thinking about what reading material to bring, I just grabbed my reader - and yes, that was its first trip out of the house. LOL. [...]
Posted in Brandon Sanderson, Eloisa James, Reviews, Violette Malan on January 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In an attempt to get on top of the books I’ve read in the past couple of months, here are some quick reviews of books I’ve enjoyed recently:
“Mirror Prince” by Violette Malan (fantasy) - An impulse buy for me, I was drawn in by the Charlaine Harris blurb on the cover! The plot? The hero thinks [...]
Posted in Diana Gabaldon, Lois McMaster Bujold, Web news on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In case you haven’t yet heard, Diana Gabaldon has a new blog - yay! Also, she’s put up a picture of a young Claire on her website (scroll about halfway down the page, in the Jan 11 post) - that’s Claire in the upcoming Outlander graphic novel (2009).
What I didn’t realise was that it’s actually a [...]
Posted in Thoughts on January 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Final post, and this time, looking ahead to 2008 (or the next eleven and a half months, anyway) based on 2007 reading.
So, in 2008, I predict:
I’m going to get started on ebooks! Just because of my new Sony reader, which I *love love love*. I’ve been downloading books (Baen Free Library’s a great starter source for SF/F, [...]
Posted in Charlaine Harris, Patricia Briggs, Web news on January 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Patricia Briggs posted a January update on her website. Have I mentioned that I just loved her latest Mercy book, ”Iron Kissed”? It was everything an urban fantasy should be. And I was so rooting for the guy she picked. Heh. I’m really pleased she didn’t drag on that love triangle. I’m not entirely sure if it was [...]
Posted in Thoughts on January 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Okay, I’m almost done with my Year in Review posts - promise. The dangers of having a spreadsheet!
In this post, I’m covering new-to-me authors. During 2007, I read books by 95 authors - of which 44 were new-to-me authors. I was quite surprised by that number as I didn’t think I was that adventurous in [...]
Posted in Diana Gabaldon, Elizabeth Peters, Eloisa James, Eva Ibbotson, JK Rowling, Jacqueline Carey, Jacqueline Winspear, Kelley Armstrong, Lisa Kleypas, Nalini Singh, Sharon Shinn, Suzanne Brockmann, Thoughts on January 11, 2008 | 16 Comments »
My favourite books of 2007 - roughly in reading order:
** Patricia Briggs‘ “Blood Bound” (urban fantasy) - The second book in her Mercy series didn’t disappoint. I’ve just finished the third (”Iron Kissed” 
and can safely say this is one of my all-time favourite series. It stands out from the hundred and one werewolf urban fantasy [...]
Posted in Ebooks, TBR on January 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Guess what? I got a Sony Reader!
I wasn’t going to get one - really. I just wanted to see what they looked like in real life. So I walked into this Sony store, and there it was. And it was just so sleek and shiny and sexy. I don’t know why, but I thought it would be, [...]
Posted in Kelley Armstrong, Web news on January 3, 2008 | No Comments »
I wanted to post my favourite reads of 2007 before disappearing on hols (short shopping break - yay!) but it doesn’t look as though it’s going to happen.
So instead, here’s some Kelley Armstrong news - she’s posted her January website updates, including her newsletter. Even better, she’s put up her 2008 release schedule.
It looks as [...]
Posted in Thoughts on January 2, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I should have better things to do with my time… but oh no. I’ve finally finished transferring my 2007 reading into a spreadsheet, so what’s the first thing I do?
Ta-dahhh! A graphical representation of my 2007 reading:
January was a very good month for reading! I did pretty well during summer as well, though towards the [...]
