Posted in Coming soon on April 28, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I try to be organised and keep a list of books I want to get - usually, this has books from authors I already know or with lots of buzz online. However, I was looking at my list for May, and for some reason, this book is on it - Jes Battis’s “Night Child” (excerpt here).
Tess Corday, [...]
Posted in Eva Ibbotson, Lois McMaster Bujold on April 26, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’ve been rather quiet here lately, but that’s because I’ve been reading lots, so it’s all good!
I finished Lois McMaster Bujold’s “Passages” almost in one go (note to self: do not start reading LMB’s books at 11pm at night). I really liked this one. I think part of the charm is that it is just so readable - it’s [...]
Posted in Elizabeth Peters, TBR, Thoughts on April 20, 2008 | 8 Comments »
To all those who said I should definitely read Elizabeth Peters‘ “Night Train to Memphis”, thank you! I read it last night, and now am impatiently waiting the next instalment in the Vicky Bliss series. I do think her later books are better than the earlier ones - there’s added depth in characters and relationships, [...]
Posted in Lois McMaster Bujold, Web news on April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A great interview with Lois McMaster Bujold is up at Fantasy Book Critic, together with a review of “Passage”. I skimmed the review because I don’t like reading reviews of books I know I’m going to get (is that just me?), but the interview has some interesting answers, especially when she talks about how different [...]
Posted in Elizabeth Vaughan, Reviews on April 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Nath very bravely invited Katie(babs) and myself to do a three-way review of Elizabeth Vaughan’s “Dagger-Star”. What did we think? The short version is that Katie(babs) loved it, Nath thought it was all right, and I err… didn’t really get it. The (much) longer version is up at Breezing Through.
Posted in Mary Jo Putney, Reviews, TBR Day on April 16, 2008 | 5 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 Diabolical Baron” (note that this is published with another story in “Dangerous to Know” - the other [...]
Posted in Coming soon, Web news on April 14, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Baen’s catalogue is out for Fall 2008 (link via Lois McMaster Bujold’s email list). Scanning quickly, these are the releases that caught my eye:
“Gentleman Takes a Chance” by Sarah A Hoyt (Oct 2008 hc, urban fantasy)
Description:
There are those living secretly among us who have the power to change their physical form from that of a [...]
Posted in Covers, Eva Ibbotson, Patricia Briggs, Web news on April 7, 2008 | 11 Comments »
I had to upgrade both the Java and Shockwave versions on my laptop, but I can now post pictures! It’s the little things…
Okay, here’s why I wanted to post pictures - I came across the Eva Ibbotson covers for the US and UK markets.
The UK ones:
The US ones:
I’ve the UK editions [...]
Posted in Anne Bishop, Kelley Armstrong, Web news on April 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sigh. WordPress did some sort of upgrade and I can’t post pictures at the moment. Here’s hoping they fix the problems next week - after all, posting covers is half of the fun I’m also reserving judgement on the new design - sure, it looks pretty, but I somehow think the old version was [...]
Posted in TBR on April 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
… at Fictionwise’s April sale (50% off in Micropay rebates until 4 April).
Books I bought:
“Silent in the Santuary” by Deanna Raybourn - Historical mystery. I haven’t posted about this (because I’m wayyyy behind), but I read “Silent in the Grave” (the first book in this series) the other day and really liked it - I’m a sucker [...]
