Archive for December, 2008
Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Brief Hiatus
Due to recent illness/injury, Someone’s Read it Already is on a brief hiatus. Don’t worry; it’s nothing particularly serious. I’ll start posting again soon!
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Monday, December 15th, 2008
Interview with Christine Rose
Welcome to Anniversary Week at Someone’s Read it Already! I can’t really guarantee that there will be many interesting things going on this week, but I do have an interview with an up-and-coming author whose novel I reviewed last week.
Christine and Ethan Rose have just released their first novel, Rowan of the Wood, and are [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in children's lit, fantasy by Stephanie
Friday, December 12th, 2008
Jenna Starborn, by Sharon Shinn
[Uh, this review is actually from last week. Sorry.]
Sharon Shinn is an award-winning (the John W. Campbell Award for Best First Novel, for The Shape-Changer’s Wife) and best-selling author; she has written a handful of spec-fic series for adults, and one for children published by Firebird, the first volume of which I reviewed here. One [...]
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
Rowan of the Wood, by Christine and Ethan Rose
The authors of today’s novel were kind enough to give me an intro that has all the info that readers will need, so here it is:
Someone’s Read it Already is excited to host Christine and Ethan Rose, authors of the new, award-winning YA fantasy novel Rowan of the Wood during their Geekalicious Yuletide Blog Book [...]
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
The Search for the Red Dragon (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, vol. 2), by James A. Owen
A few months ago, I reviewed Here There Be Dragons, by James A. Owen, of the Coppervale Studios. He self-published a very popular comic book series, among other works, and has been working as a magazine editor, novelist, and general creative sort for quite a few years. This series (the Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica) [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in alternate history, book reviews, children's lit, fantasy by Stephanie
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Mississippi Jack (Jacky Faber Chronicles, book 5), by L. A. Meyer
L. A. Meyer and his Jacky Faber are back! I’ve read, reviewed, and enjoyed the previous four volumes in this series in these entries: Bloody Jack, Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Under the Jolly Roger, and In the Belly of the Bloodhound. Mr. Meyer is a former Navy person who lives near the shore; these [...]
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Solomon’s Seal: Discovery, by Leigh Bridger
Leigh Bridger is a pen name of Deborah Smith, veteran author of a ton of novels (including the NYT best-seller A Place to Call Home) and mad genius from Belle Books. This novella of hers is the first in a series; it runs to 140 pages and is available primarily as an ebook. This was [...]
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Sunday, December 7th, 2008
One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is considered one of the pioneers of the ‘magic realism’ movement, a subset of postmodernism that concerns itself chiefly with telling things that are true, even if they aren’t necessarily ‘real.’ He writes epic stories; this novel spans at least a hundred years, [...]
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon
Today’s review, unfortunately delayed by eminently foreseeable yet unavoidable conflicts (work), is of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Michael Chabon is a champion of genre writing; he has made uncomplimentary remarks about the state of modern ‘literature.’ His first novels were detective thrillers; other ones are alternate histories or fantasies, and The Adventures of Kavalier & [...]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008. The Prize is given for the entire body of a person’s work over his or her lifetime. In Ms. Lessing’s case, that includes a good deal of science-fiction novels. (The Nobel Prize committee can’t say, “We’re only giving this to her because she wrote that [...]