Archive for May, 2009
Friday, May 29th, 2009
The Nymphos of Rocky Flats, by Mario Acevedo
Mario Acevedo apparently, when he was four years old, told one of his aunts that he wanted a machine gun for Christmas. A stint in the army — where he also flew helicopters — apparently cured him of that, and provided him with fodder and knowledge for a series of books about a vet — [...]
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Lust, Loathing, and a Little Lip Gloss (Sophie Katz, book 4), by Kyra Davis
Kyra Davis is half Jewish (Eastern European) and half African-American; she married early and repented at leisure, getting divorced within a relatively short period of time. Despite a career in the fashion industry, she found herself writing novels as a sort of therapy, given the events of her life. Unlike most people’s therapy journals, though, [...]
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Monday, May 25th, 2009
Star Trek (2009)
Confession time: I am a Trekkie. When I was a kid, Star Trek: The Next Generation (ST:TNG) was still being aired live, and my parents were not only fans, but felt that it was good, clean family entertainment. (Close enough.) I’ve seen enough episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series (ST:TOS) to know what’s going [...]
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Friday, May 22nd, 2009
Silver Falls, by Anne Stuart
Anne Stuart (not, coincidentally, the deceased member of the English royalty) is apparently one of the grand masters of romance, having won the lifetime achievement award from RWA. She’s been publishing novels since 1974 (when she was twenty-five) and has worked with every publisher I can think of, and in every subcategory except (as far [...]
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
The Thirteenth Child (Frontier Magic, book 1), by Patricia C. Wrede
Patricia C. Wrede is one of my auto-buy authors. Based in Minnesota, she’s probably most well-known either for the Sorcery and Cecelia series of YA epistolary Regency-set fantasy novels co-authored with Caroline V. Stevermer, or for the quartet of YA books starting with Dealing with Dragons. Less well-known are her Lyra novels, set in a [...]
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Angelic, by Kelley Armstrong
A little over a year ago, I decided to read everything that Kelley Armstrong had published at that point, being that I’d been recommended her works by so many different places so many times, and in general I quite enjoy the genre she writes (urban fantasy, whatever you’d like to call it). So I read [...]
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
Nights of Blood 2: More Legends of the Vampire, edited by Elyse Salpeter and Bob Nailor
I was sent this book by a member of my former writers’ group (where we talked about anything but writing) who happens to have a story published in the anthology; he and a couple of the other writers, including one of the editors, are all residents of my home region. The book, however, was published [...]
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
Incantation, by Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman has written a number of books for both adults and young adults; three of said novels (Practical Magic, Aquamarine, and The River King) have been made into movies, starring some rather impressive actors. Born in New York, she attended Adelphi College and later Stanford, getting degrees in creative writing, and in 1983 she [...]
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
Moonspeaker, by K. D. Wentworth
This was a Del Rey Discovery book some fifteen years ago, and my copy is a paperback that gleefully splashes that information all over. Ms. Wentworth’s first novel was The Imperium Game, published in 1994, but for some reason it was decided that this second book would be a good Discovery. Apparently she got her [...]
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Friday, May 8th, 2009
Goose Chase, by Patrice Kindl
Patrice Kindl was born in Alplaus, New York, which is outside Schenectady, the youngest of four daughters of a mechanical engineer and a stay-at-home mom. In college, which she attended in St. Louis, she studied acting, before dropping out to go to a drama school in New York. After four years of less than success, [...]