Books for September

September is an excellent month for new releases – books I want:
Diana Gabaldon’s “An Echo in the Bone” (umm… I’m going to say historical fantasy): I can’t believe that we are finally getting the next book in Ms Gabaldon’s Outlander series.  It’s been way too long since the last one (and no, I’m not doing [...]

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Books for April

I’m so late with this post that I’ve already read quite a few of the April releases!  However, better late than never…
So first up was Karen Chance’s “Curse the Dawn” (urban fantasy), fourth in her Cassandra Palmer series.  Excerpt here. 
I’m a big fan of this series, and this installment didn’t disappoint.  Cassie’s trying [...]

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The Third Quarter of 2008

Ploughing on with my year in review posts (I’m beginning to regret starting this!), here’s July to September:
 
July
A fairly quiet month reading-wise.  I enjoyed Naomi Novik’s “Victory of Eagles” (historical fantasy, Book 5 of the Temeraire series) – how can you not like Temeraire?  Ms Novik’s take on dragons and the Napoleonic Wars era remains [...]

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The Second Quarter of 2008

In my January-March wrap up, I forgot to mention the major book-related event in January – I got my Sony Reader.  And Catherine Asaro’s “The Ruby Dice” was the first ebook I read on it.  It’s funny how that sticks in my mind.  I think the first 50 or so pages, my main thoughts were [...]

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You Can Never Have Too Many Books…

I’m still around three-quarters of the way through Stephenie Meyer’s “Breaking Dawn” (am rather entertained despite the rather jaw-dropping storyline – more on this later), but yesterday was release day for some books I’ve been anticipating…
Elizabeth Peters’ “The Laughter of Dead Kings” (mystery): The long-awaited Vicky Bliss is out!  Definitely the next book I’m reading.
Ann [...]

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Books for August

First off, I finally got my hands on Patricia Briggs’ “Cry Wolf”, so that’s my weekend reading sorted 
For some reason, there doesn’t seem to be that many August releases that I’m excited about. 
The ones that I’m looking forward to:
Jenna Black’s “The Devil You Know” (urban fantasy): I really liked the first [...]

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Review – Ann Aguirre’s “Grimspace”

It was with slight trepidation that I began reading Ann Aguirre’s “Grimspace”.  There was massive online buzz about this SF romance – however, the last couple of SF romances that I had bought due to online recs hadn’t quite done it for me.
And then there was the “present tense” thing.  Yes, the book is written in [...]

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I cave…

Remember my resolution not to buy a new book unless I finished one from my TBR?  Shot to pieces by the Fictionwise Leap Day sale.  I’m such a sucker.
I got a rather random selection of books:
“Innocent in Death” by JD Robb (futuristic romance/suspense) – The last In Death book I read was more than a year [...]

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