Category Archives: Elizabeth Peters

What’s Occupying My Thoughts

It’s Read an Ebook Week, which means all sorts of ebook freebies abound.  The MobileRead forums are great at filtering the slush pile, so to speak, but here’s a good one: Kelly Hunter‘s offering her self-published novella WISH for free. … Continue reading

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Filed under Elizabeth Peters, Seanan McGuire, Kelly Hunter, Andrea K Höst

2010: Recap of My Reading Year Part 1

I’ve done an annual recap of books read for the past few years running – this time around, it’s taken a bit more than usual to start writing this (possibly tied to my general lack of blogging motivation this year, you … Continue reading

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Filed under Jim Butcher, Elizabeth Peters, Patricia Briggs, Jacqueline Carey, Diana Gabaldon, Mary Stewart, Lisa Lutz, Sarah Dessen, Seanan McGuire, Sarah A Hoyt, Jennifer Echols, Steve Kluger

Books for April

I have been rather remiss in not posting this earlier, but better late than never, and it is still April… Here are the new releases for April that are on my To Buy list (and in most cases, have already … Continue reading

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Utter Glee

The new Elizabeth Peters arrived in my post today – and I have the whole weekend to savour it. “A River in the Sky” is an Amelia Peabody book, and ever since I found out there would be a new … Continue reading

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New Amelia Peabody!

Not exactly breaking news, but Elizabeth Peters’ website is announcing a new Amelia Peabody book “River in the Sky” to be released April 2010. After some frantic Googling, here’s a blurb courtesy of Simpleng Kaligayahan: Still banned from exploring the … Continue reading

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Re-Read Challenge: Elizabeth Peters’ “The Mummy Case”

I made the deadline this month!  Just. Right, after umm-ing and ahh-ing about the choice of books, I went for an Amelia Peabody book.  Despite only stumbling onto this series relatively recently (I read the first one just over two … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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The First Quarter of 2008

Okay, I’ve been wondering how to go about doing this, and I think I’m going to start off with a month-by-month review, based on notes made in my trusty reading spreadsheet.    January Highlights for me were Patricia Briggs’ “Iron … Continue reading

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Filed under Barbara Michaels, Catherine Asaro, Deanna Raybourn, Eileen Wilks, Elizabeth Moon, Elizabeth Peters, Jo Beverley, Julie Hyzy, Lois McMaster Bujold, Nalini Singh, Nora Roberts, Patricia Briggs, Thoughts

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 … Continue reading

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Filed under Ann Aguirre, Elizabeth Peters, Jayne Ann Krentz, Richelle Mead, TBR

It’s Almost Here…

My “New Vicky Bliss!” entry tends to be one of the most popular posts on my blog for some reason.  Probably partly due to the fact that Ms Peters has a minimal web presence – I can’t remember the last … Continue reading

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