Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Nick and the Glimmung, by Philip K. Dick
One of these days, I really need to read a ‘real’ book by PKD. I’ve read his screen treatment of one of his novels (reviewed here) and then this book, and the works of some of his friends, and of course I’ve seen Blade Runner and Minority Report, but I’ve never actually read any of [...]
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Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Blood Red, by Heather Graham
This is the single book that I have paid the least for this week; I think I paid twelve and a half cents for it. It’s a little warped, but the words are intact. Uh, by the way, Heather Graham the author isn’t Heather Graham the actress; the author’s actual name is Heather Graham Pozzessere, [...]
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Thorn Ogres of Hagwood (The Hagwood Trilogy, book 1) by Robin Jarvis
Robin Jarvis is apparently male and British; a good deal of his other books are about mice. Here I will betray one of my other prejudices: I don’t actually like books about anthropomorphic animals, with the possible exception of dragons (and even then, it better be the best dragon book ever). Fortunately, this one isn’t [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
The Last Days, by Scott Westerfeld
I can’t even think of a snazzy blurb to write about Scott Westerfeld anymore. He’s married to Justine Larbalestier; they live in Australia during the summer and New York during the other summer; he’s originally from Texas; he’s written several books that I’ve reviewed. Oh, and apparently he won a/the Philip K. Dick Special Citation. [...]
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Contest Winner!
I had three entries in my First Ever Contest, and through a crazy Random Number Generator (let R=$RANDOM%3; echo $R), I resulted in #1. So, Angela from Comment Number 1, you’ve won a copy of Farworld: Water Keep!
Please send your name, an address at which you can receive mail, and any special signing instructions to [...]
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Midshipwizard Halcyon Blithe, by James M. Ward
[Winners of the contest will be announced TOMORROW, Tuesday, August 26th.]
This was another book that, like last week’s Cobwebs, I got from the GIANT BOOK SALE. Ben picked it up originally, but recognizing in the title a reference to C. S. Forester’s Mr. Midshipman Hornblower (complete with improbable name), I was awfully interested in reading [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Cobwebs, by Karen Romano Young
So there’s this GIANT BOOK SALE going on just up the street from where I live, and if one managed to rack up $25 worth of books, one got 20% off. This book was the book that put us over the top. I’d never heard of the author, and the book description didn’t quite grab [...]
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Contest EXTENDED due to lack of clarity
I reread my post (here) of the interview with J. Scott Savage and realized that Friday at midnight is about an hour from now. I really meant Friday at 11:59 P.M. EDT; that is, a minute before Saturday starts.
That gives those in the Eastern time zone another 25 hours to enter!
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Thursday, August 21st, 2008
Ink Exchange, by Melissa Marr
This is the companion book (sort of a sequel) to Wicked Lovely, which I reviewed here. Melissa Marr, I think, won some sort of RWA award for Wicked Lovely; I enjoyed the book quite a bit, as my review showed. There’s a third book, an actual sequel to WL, that has been finished and might [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
Seraphs (Thorn St. Croix, book 2), by Faith Hunter
[I still have a cold/a sinus infection/the plague, so I apologize for the brevity of this review. -S.]
A few weeks ago, I read the first book in this series; I was pretty excited by Ms. Hunter’s world building, so when I saw an inexpensive copy of book 2, I picked it up quickly. Now, unfortunately, [...]
