Me = Bad Blogger

Real life completely gets in the way. 
Ah, anyway, bank holiday weekend – hurray!  Dawdling home, I decided to stop by the library (rare occurrence, trust me) and came out with these two books:
John Scalzi’s “The Last Colony” (military SF):  I have the first two books in this very loose trilogy (or is it [...]

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April Reading

So what did I read during April?  17 books in total (full list here) but some thoughts:
I finished the final Amelia Peabody book “Tomb of the Golden Bird” *sigh*.  I do hope Elizabeth Peters writes another.  Though I suspect she might have to dig up some of Amelia’s missing journals, else you’ll have a 70+ year old Amelia [...]

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Random Updates

The weekend’s finally here – thank goodness!  Let’s put it this way – it hasn’t been one of my better weeks, but it’s over now…
On to book-related news, Jo Beverley’s latest newsletter is out, and she’s just put up excerpts from her latest book “Lady Beware” (June 2007).  This is part of her Company of Rogues series, and the book [...]

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Around the Web

Non-romance related, but still interesting – SF author John Scalzi reviews his income from science-fiction writing in 2006.  I’ve no idea if the same applies to romance authors, but this is fascinating info nonetheless.  And this reminds me that I’ve his latest mass market paperback “Old Man’s War” in my TBR pile – must read it [...]

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New Books…

I’ve been a bit lazy with blog updates lately.  Ummm… I’m very busy at work.  Is that a valid excuse?  Seriously, I haven’t even enough time to read new books lately, let alone go blog-hopping.  I need a holiday.
Moving on to book-related stuff, I received a massive delivery from Amazon yesterday – and I didn’t [...]

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