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So after the fantastic month that was April (no, I haven’t posted my thoughts on any of the April releases in detail, and yes, I still have the Ann Aguirre and Jo Beverley left to read), here are the May new releases I’m anticipating:
 
First up, Diana Peterfreund’s “Tap & Gown”, the fourth and final [...]

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New-ish Books

Surfacing from my Chalet School glom to gloat over my new books that have arrived recently, courtesy of Amazon and The Book Depository:
Cassandra Clare’s “City of Glass”:  This is one of March’s new releases I was super-excited about and it’s arrived early!  The cover is just as good IRL.  I love.  I think this [...]

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I can’t believe we’re already well into March.  What happened to February?
There are quite a few new releases I’m planning on getting this month:
Anne Bishop’s “The Shadow Queen” (dark fantasy):  I’m one of her many Black Jewels fans and can’t wait to revisit this world.  “The Shadow Queen” follows the descendants of the main [...]

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Sherwood Smith blogs about jury reading for the 2008 Andre Norton Award, and gives some good recs for YA science fiction and fantasy books.  I’m definitely going to be looking up all the ones she’s mentioned.
Check out this followup to last year’s “Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance” (out in August this year).  This time [...]

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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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I’m on a sort of mini-vacation at the moment (visiting parents, which does count as a holiday, though not one of those where you spend the day sightseeing and doing new things, but one where you can just be lazy and revisit old haunts… which in some ways, are even nicer than the other type).
Obviously [...]

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