Category Archives: Jim Butcher

Slightly Longer Thoughts

The rest of the books I read during July 2011 – this time, I actually liked all of them.  Non-Goodreads comments in italics… ************ One Was a Soldier by Julia Spencer-Fleming (mystery) My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was totally … Continue reading

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Filed under Jacqueline Carey, Jim Butcher, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Kalayna Price, Reviews

Books for July

The July new releases on my To Buy pile (and in a couple of cases, my Bought pile): Kalayna Price‘s “Grave Dance” (urban fantasy):  I bought the first book in this series (“Grave Witch”) on an impulse and liked it … Continue reading

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Filed under Jim Butcher, Kalayna Price, Kelley Armstrong, Patricia Briggs, Web news

2010: Recap of My Reading Year Part 3

And the final four months of 2010… September I’m not quite sure what happened in September – no, actually, I do, it was a complete nightmare work-wise – but I ended up only reading six books this month. But they … Continue reading

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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 November

Yes, we’re in the second half of the month.  My excuse is that I’ve been on holiday (two things of note: (a) I have read so many books – total bliss! (b) why did no one tell me that Diana … Continue reading

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Books for July

June was a bit of a quiet month for new releases, but July more than makes up for it.  In no particular order, here are the books I’m planning on getting:   Kelley Armstrong’s “Waking the Witch” (urban fantasy): I … Continue reading

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Filed under Coming soon, Eloisa James, Eoin Colfer, Ilona Andrews, Jennifer Echols, Jim Butcher, Kelley Armstrong, Nalini Singh, Naomi Novik, Suzanne Brockmann

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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Filed under Coming soon, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller, Charlaine Harris, Jim Butcher, Elizabeth Peters, Kelley Armstrong, Jo Beverley, Mary Jo Putney

Around the Web

Karen Chance has put up the first four chapters of a free short story set in her Cassie Palmer world, the rest of the story to follow soon, hopefully.  This is the first of the short stories she’s writing to … Continue reading

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2009: Recap of My Reading Year Part I

This time last year, I posted an epic series of posts about my reading year (okay, five – that counts as epic for me).  This time around, not that many, I swear. Looking back at the first half of 2009: … Continue reading

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Books for December

A post slightly on the late side, but that’s probably because there aren’t that many December releases on my To Get list.  Umm… three if you want to be exact.  And I’ve read one of them already. First up is … Continue reading

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Filed under Coming soon, Jim Butcher, Josh Lanyon, Mercedes Lackey