Posted in Covers, Kelley Armstrong, Lois McMaster Bujold, Patricia Briggs, Web news on March 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Oooh - go and check out Patricia Briggs‘ new covers for her older fantasy books (the March 26 entry). I like the “When Demons Walk” and “The Hob’s Bargain” ones, but think I preferred the old “Dragon Bones” cover. Not entirely sure about the new “Steal the Dragon” cover, though it’s definitely an improvement over [...]
Posted in Coming soon, Elizabeth Peters, Elizabeth Vaughan, Karen Chance, Lisa Shearin, Lois McMaster Bujold, Sherry Thomas on March 29, 2008 | 12 Comments »
ETA: I’m rubbish - I completely forgot about Jo Beverley’s “A Lady’s Secret” (historical romance). Seeing it in the bookstore today was a nice surprise! It’s set in the Georgian era, and I’m pretty sure it’s part of her Malloren family series. I’m also getting her two-in-one traditional regency reissues, ”Lovers and Ladies”, when it appears on the shelves. Ms [...]
Posted in Ebooks, Thoughts on March 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Okay, I love my Sony Reader with a passion, but here’s why I still appreciate paper books.
#1 Paper books never give you panic attacks: My reader completely froze up the other night. No response whatsoever. If it weren’t for Google and the MobileRead forums, I’d probably have just sat and wept. Anyway, after a few panicked minutes, I [...]
Posted in Kelley Armstrong, Reviews on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
But not here - I did a buddy review with Nath at Breezing Through. If you’ve read it, pop on over - would love to hear what you thought!
Err… obviously you’re free to comment as well if you haven’t read it
Posted in Web news on March 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Jennie and her sis have set up an unofficial website for Mary Stewart! I think it looks fantastic. I’ve never read any of Ms Stewart’s books before, but I really want to now. Any author that can inspire fans to set up a website like that has to be good
And how are you doing [...]
Posted in Julie Anne Long, Richelle Mead on March 22, 2008 | 7 Comments »
The weather’s all over the place today - started off with bright sunshine and then gale-force winds (well, almost), then it snowed (!) and then became drizzly and now it’s sunny again. I did venture out to go shopping (and wasn’t the only one with the same idea - the shops were packed) and came [...]
Posted in TBR on March 20, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I had a 15% off coupon for Fictionwise, so here’s what I bought this week:
A bundle of Suzanne Brockmann’s “Tall, Dark And Dangerous” books (romantic suspense) - Now this is cool. Someone mentioned on the AAR boards that Harlequin was releasing this series as ebook bundles. I love this series, but a lot of them [...]
Posted in Lois McMaster Bujold, Reviews, TBR Day on March 19, 2008 | 10 Comments »
This is posted as part of Keishon’s TBR Day challenge, which is aimed at encouraging us readers with the towering TBR piles (you know who you are) to start tackling the books that have been languishing in there for eons.
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Book: The Sharing Knife: Legacy (2nd in the Sharing Knife series)
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Copyright date: 2007
Why did I [...]
Posted in Ebooks, Tor, Web news on March 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Tor’s giveaway of the week was Jo Walton’s “Farthing”. Am pleased with this one as it’s a book that I’ve been meaning to check out. Next week’s book is Tobias Bucknell’s “Crystal Rain” - again, he’s an author I’ve been curious about, so yay!
Oh, in case you were wondering why they were giving away ebooks, [...]
Posted in Covers, Eloisa James, Julia Quinn, Web news on March 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Came across this cover for Eloisa James‘ “Desperate Duchesses” on Amazon - it’s a UK edition that came out last month. What do you think? I like the the male hand holding a chess piece - very nice touch. But major cleavage! Hmm… probably quite true to the era though.
Also, on her website, she has the new cover [...]
