Books for January

Happy New Year all!  The requisite 2009 wrap-up posts will be coming your way shortly, but first, here are the January books I’m planning on getting.
 
Karen Chance’s “Death’s Mistress” (urban fantasy):  Karen Chance* is one of my all-time favourite UF writers, and this is the second installment in her Dorina Basarab series, set in [...]

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Books for July

Halfway through July and my sidebar is still displaying “May Books I Want”.  I feel slightly embarrassed.  I may even update it later today.
Anyway, here are the July books I want.  Rather unusually, there are three historical romances to start off:
Mary Jo Putney’s “Loving a Lost Lord” (historical romance):  A straight historical romance from [...]

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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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Very Quickly…

I stopped by the bookstore today and they had Karen Chance’s “Curse the Dawn” out!  Her Cassie Palmer UF series is one of my favourites so getting this just in time for the weekend made my day.
I almost missed it on the display table because I was expecting a cover similar to the US [...]

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Around the Web

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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The Fourth Quarter of 2008

And the end is in sight!  I may actually finish my 2008 Review posts before the end of January.
 
October
I was on holiday for most of October, which explains the massive total of 20 books read during this month.
I had never quite managed to understand why Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files series (urban fantasy) was so popular, [...]

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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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Recent Reads

I’m never going to get organised enough to post my monthly reads on a regular basis or to review every single book I read (or even every other book), so here are some quick thoughts on a few books I’ve recently read.
I loved Karen Chance’s “Midnight’s Daughter” (urban fantasy), but I’d have to say it’s [...]

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Books for October

Books I’m planning on getting this month:
Karen Chance’s “Midnight’s Daughter” (urban fantasy):  I’m a big fan of Ms Chance’s Cassie Palmer series, and this title is the first in a new-but-related series and is set after the third Cassie book (“Embrace the Night”).  Dorina Basarab is a dhampir (human-vampire mix, apparently) who occasionally has [...]

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Books for April

ETA: I’m rubbish - I completely forgot about Jo Beverley’s “A Lady’s Secret” (historical romance).  Seeing it in the bookstore today was a nice surprise!  It’s set in the Georgian era, and I’m pretty sure it’s part of her Malloren family series.  I’m also getting her two-in-one traditional regency reissues, ”Lovers and Ladies”, when it appears on the shelves.  Ms [...]

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