Hello. I’m back. I was out of town showering a dear friend with baby gifts (ok, loafing at her house, eating her food, and attending a baby shower for her sure-to-be adorable evil spawn). It was a five hour trip each way which means I had ten hours to read!…
Did you miss me? I’m sorry I told you to get lost three hours and forty-two minutes ago, but I wasn’t in my right mind. I had just opened my mailbox to find Private Arrangements waiting for me, and, of course, I had to read it. Now that I’ve read…
…go away. I’m reading. But come back on March 25th when I’ll give away the copy of Private Arrangements by Sherry Thomas that I would have bought, if I hadn’t been so lucky as to win a copy in the Dear Author contest.
Rust, mold, mildew. Corrosion, erosion, collapse. Writers have imagined a thousand ways in which humanity will end, but no one has ever offered such a well-researched and startlingly specific idea of what happens after as Alan Weisman’s engrossing book, The World Without Us. The World Without Us presents houses, cities,…
<A href=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fshawor-20%2F8005%2F66a857a6-555d-482f-b2f2-6ecd7242e025&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A> First off, a few warnings. Ann Aguirre has given me money. Not to review this book, but to make a promotional bookmark. Grimspace had been on my Must Read list for quite a while, and I was so eager to read it that I asked Ann to…
My ARC of Ann Aguirre’s Grimspace arrived in the mail today. If her vast Grimspace Publicity Juggernaut has somehow missed you, Grimspace is an exciting new sci-fi novel which Jane of Dear Author recently reviewed very favorably and of which Sharon Shinn said the following: An irresistable blend of action…
Everybody loves presents. Here’s a list of presents from authors to readers–free reads! Update: December 26, 2007 through January 1, 2008: Free Harlequin eBooks! You can download one book a day. Paperback Writer’s 2006 Free eBook ChallengeThis here is a big, mama-jama list o’ free fiction. Lynn Viehl (she of…
Wow, Part 1: Demon NightI just finished the ARC of MelJean Brook‘s Demon Night that I won from Dear Author. I’m still gathering my thoughts on it–there’s a lot of plot, and backstory, and detail. I don’t know quite what I think of Demon Night but I am certain of…
I ought to get some blogging mileage out of the eBooks I’ve read. But, I’m lazy, and I procrastinate. Sometimes it just so difficult to put my completely arbitrary and fickle opinions in print. So here’s part 1 of a round up of eBooks I’ve read lately–Short and Sweet. Or,…
The weekend before last, I was working on my tan. Now, I’m staring out at rain. Rain! In September! Usually things are on fire right about now. I can’t complain, though. We need the rain. But I can look back on…the way we were. Actually, I’m just looking for an…
