Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson, book 2), by Patricia Briggs
The Mercy Thompson series is still getting good reviews elsewhere on the reviewosphere, and every time I read about Briggs’s works, it reminds me that I’ve only read one book of hers. So I read a second — the sequel to the first — and I do still have plans to read stuff she’s written [...]
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Succubus Blues (Georgina Kincaid, book 1), by Richelle Mead
Earlier this year I read Ms. Mead’s Vampire Academy, reviewed here. It was her first foray into YA territory, and while I wouldn’t say it was the best book I’ve read this year, it definitely made me search out other books she’s written. Turns out she’s currently writing three series: the Vampire Academy series, the [...]
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Alchemy, by Margaret Mahy
I had, to my knowledge, not read anything by Margaret Mahy prior to this, although her name always comes up on lists of good, award-winning books. To be precise, she’s won the Hans Christian Andersen award, and the New Zealand Children’s Book Foundation NAMED their award after her. That’s a pretty good pedigree, no? It [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
The Dark (Guardians of Time, book 2), by Marianne Curley
A few weeks ago, I reviewed the first book in this trilogy (here). Marianne Curley is Australian; these books are not her first, although they are her first trilogy (or, for that matter, sustained work over any grouping of novels). She is considering writing a fourth volume in this trilogy, although she is not sure [...]
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
Night Road, by A. M. Jenkins
Award-winning author A. M. Jenkins was not one I’d heard of prior to receiving this book for review, although it seems to be her third book. This novel will be released on May 20, 2008 in the U. S., and she received the PEN/Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship to write it. She apparently lives [...]
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, book 4), by Rick Riordan
I’ve reviewed the previous three volumes in this series here, here, and here. This volume, obviously the fourth, was released on Tuesday of this week in the U.S., and Barnes and Noble was nice enough to send me a 30% off coupon. Unfortunately, although I purchased it the day it came out (as did a [...]
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
On Stranger Tides, by Tim Powers
Tim Powers is a Californian by way of New York; he is apparently good friends with Philip K. Dick and James Blaylock. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dick’s novel that was loosely adapted into the movie Blade Runner, was dedicated to Powers. All of that I learned two minutes ago on Wikipedia. When I [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow
Astute readers might remember that sometime last week I complained that Cory Doctorow had not yet gotten around to releasing his latest work for free on the internet. Well, he promised it to us Monday, and by gum, we got it on Monday. Unfortunately I’d already cued up a review for Tuesday, so you get [...]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Worldweavers: Spellspam (book 2), by Alma Alexander
[First, an announcement: this is my hundredth book review over here! I'm not sure that actually means anything, but a hundred! That's a big round number! Whee! --S.]
A week and a half ago, I reviewed the first book in what will be a trilogy by Alma Alexander, a woman who’s had an interesting residential history. [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Curse of the Blue Tattoo (Jacky Faber Chronicles, Book 2), by L. A. Meyer
A few weeks ago, I found books 1, 3, 4, & 5 of this series at a Borders outlet. Naturally they were all very nice hardbacks, and the only copy I could find of book 2 on a shelf was a paperback. That, of course, wouldn’t do, so I ordered a copy of book 2 [...]
