I don’t normally write up my rereads (my original review is here), but when I picked this book up on my half off spree at Borders, I’d recently enough read Swordspoint (which happens twenty years before this story) that I wanted to be able to read it again with Alec and Richard’s story fresh in […]
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Read for the Foodie’s Reading Challenge. Melissa Clark’s “A Good Appetite” column is one of the things I really like reading in the New York Times, though I’ll fully admit I’ve been reading much less of it since they put up the paywall for their website. (2024 note: I now subscribe, and the Cooking section features
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Anyone who watched the show Firefly, the rather tragically cut short space western created by Joss Whedon, is familiar with the character of Shepherd Book. Book very clearly had a back story that involved somehow being deeply involved with the Republic, which was naturally never explored when the show wasn’t allowed past a first season.
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It’s practically fall again, so it’s time for the RIP VI Reading Challenge. This year, I’m going to do Peril the First, which is to read at least four books in the challenge categories: mystery, suspense, thriller, dark fantasy, Gothic, horror, or supernatural. Per my usual habit of the past couple years, I’ll be seeing
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The Duke of Avon has a bit of a reputation in both France and his native England – he’s known as “Satanas”, and absolutely no one thinks well of him. Late one night, he comes across a red-headed street urchin named Leon, who is fleeing a beating at his brother’s hand. Seemingly on a whim,
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Borders is up to 50% off, and drew BF and me with its siren song last night. I decided to restrict myself to cookbooks, craft books, and fantasy/scifi that I’ve actually wanted to read, in that order. I lucked out with two cookbooks I’ve had one my want list for a while (saw one other
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Read for the 2011 YA Reading Challenge. This book is a companion to Merlin’s Harp, which portrays the Fae as a primal people living alongside the human inhabitants of King Arthur’s Kingdom. In Arthurian legend, Sir Percival is raised far from court by his mother, because his father and older brothers have all died in
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I don’t often read craft books cover to cover – they’re not usually designed to be read in that way. And to be honest, this one really isn’t either, but I’m fighting a summer cold, and I have a new sewing machine I haven’t dared try yet, and a whole pile of knitting I don’t
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Sometimes, it’s not always good to read a sequel immediately open reading the book that came before it. Having just read The Hidden Worlds, I had certain ideas of how the two main characters – Linnea and Iain – should be, and Linnea let me down a bit in this book. In the first book
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Read for the 2011 TBR Lite Reading Challenge. Hundreds of years ago, a race of nanorobots called the Cold Minds took over the Earth, and humanity was only saved by a group of Pilots that were able to bring the remnants of the population to the Hidden Worlds, where the Cold Minds could not find
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