More Books for the TBR Pile

The upside of having unreliable post is that you forget what you’ve ordered and then when it does arrive, it’s like an early Christmas present. 
Which was what happened with my not-so-recent purchase of Ellen Emerson White’s “White House Autumn” and “Long Live the Queen”.  I ordered them after I finished “The President’s Daughter” [...]

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First Week of December…

Thea and Ana at The Book Smugglers have kicked off their annual Smugglivus extravaganza with guest posts and giveaways galore.  It’s only the first week and they’ve already had some very interesting posts.  I can’t wait to see what else they have planned for the rest of the month.
Speaking of which, two more working [...]

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Around the Web – and a Bookstore Closure

The last day of November (yes, I am very aware of how inactive my blog has been for the past month) and it is absolutely freezing.  I wonder if we’re in for snow this year?
Anyway, a few posts around the blogosphere that have caught my eye lately:
Ilona Andrews posted about the difference in writing styles [...]

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Books for November

Mid-November and I’ve only read two books.  At this rate, I’ll need to stop eyeing up the new releases, else it will be a losing battle against my TBR pile.  Maybe it’s a good thing there aren’t that many November releases that I want.  I think.
I’m definitely going to get Nalini Singh’s “Blaze of [...]

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Linkage and Stuff

Via Jessica’s Monday Morning Stepback post at Racy Romance Reviews, I hopped over to Courtney Milan’s blog where she gives her take on Publishers Weekly’s top ten books of the year – the all-male one.
And wow.  Both the post and her responses in the comments?  I am in awe.  Plus I learnt what disemvoweling [...]

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Ebook Reader Envy – and a Tiny Haul

I was killing time in Waterstones today, and started playing around with the Sony Reader Touch they had on display.
Bad, bad move.  I now really want.
I had convinced myself that I was perfectly fine with my PRS-505 but oh, the touchscreen.  It was beautifully responsive, and I found navigation completely intuitive (although bear in [...]

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A Belated Thank You

To Nath, who went to Kelley Armstrong’s signing in Montreal earlier this month (and did a very detailed write-up of the Q&A session with Ms Armstrong).
Guess what arrived in the post a couple of weeks later?

 
Yes, Nath very kindly got ME a signed book.
There was much “OMG I don’t believe this” when the parcel [...]

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Books for October

A bit late with this post, but September had so many releases I wanted – I’m determinedly not thinking of the number of books I added to my TBR pile last month.  And October is shaping up to be just as good.
 
First up, Sharon Shinn is flooding the New Releases shelf – I’m not [...]

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A This and That Post

So many things, so little time.  A few things that have caught my eye this week:
For those UK readers considering the Kindle (and yes, that would include me), NextRead has an excellent post summarising what you will and won’t get.  After shipping and taxes, the cost is around $387 according to this MobileRead post.
I’ve decided [...]

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Lisa Lutz’s “Curse of the Spellmans”

You know those books by new-to-you authors which make you think “oh, I should really try other books by this author”, but it’s not quite I-need-to-go-and-order-other-books-by-this-author-NOW?  And then you never actually get around to trying their other books.
Lisa Lutz is one of these not-so-new-to-me authors.  I came across a mention of her Spellman books that [...]

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