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The Snow Child – Eowyn Ivey

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is a lovely book, set in Alaska, at the turn of the last century. Mabel and Jack are an older couple, who have escaped their past lives to the frontier of Alaska. It was supposed to be a fresh start – a chance to work together on something, but signs are not looking good […]

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Fire Touched – Patricia Briggs

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When a troll attacks one of the local bridges, the police department calls the local werewolf pack, and with Adam, the alpha being away, Mercy (his mate) gets to go to see how they can help. The pack does manage to kill the troll, which Mercy is pretty sure was sent by the Fae Gray

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Siege and Storm – Leigh Bardugo

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Alina and Mal have tried to run from the Darkling, but he finds them, and brings them back to Ravka. But the Darkling isn’t aware that his allies are not all that they seem, and the privateer he has hired to bring them back to Ravka instead saves Alina and Mal for his own ends.

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Periodic Tales – Hugh Aldersey-Williams

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This book came out of the author’s attempt to collect examples of all of the elements – not easy to do, by the way. What he writes about isn’t so much the chemical or physical properties of those elements, though that is covered, where it’s important to their discovery. What he does cover is the

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Dark Lands – Tony Wheeler

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

Tony Wheeler is one of the co-founders of Lonely Planet – one of my favorite guide book publishers. This book is vignettes of his travels to a number of countries that most people are not going to travel to, because they’re not the safest places in the world to travel. It’s an interesting mix, because

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Lies Sleeping – Ben Aaronovitch

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

We’re back to the world of Constable – now Detective – Peter Grant, London police officer and wizard in training. After a bit of an interlude in the last one and a half books, the Faceless Man and Lesley are back. And I don’t feel like I can talk about it much, because it’s all

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The Future Falls – Tanya Huff

1 Comment / At Home, Reading / Megan

This is the last book in the trilogy about the Gale family. Charlie, the Wild Gale, is back in Calgary, watching her cousin Allie give a good go at getting the seventh son of a seventh son of a seventh son into the Gale family. And Jack, half-Gale, half-dragon prince, is growing up a little

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Mastiff – Tamora Pierce

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This the final book of the Beka Cooper books, and it’s a doozy. She and her partner are summoned with some haste to the Summer Palace, where they find that half of the servants and guards there have been slaughtered, and the young prince has been kidnapped. Beka promises the frantic queen that she will

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2018 Books Read

At Home, Reading / Megan

Here’s the 2018 crop.    Didn’t quite get to 100, but I was close.    That was due to quite a few rereads this year.     We’ll see if that keeps up for next year or not – it’ll depend on how much I need comfort reading.

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Closer to the Chest – Mercedes Lackey

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This is a great conclusion to the The Herald Spy trilogy – Mags and Amily definitely come into their own as the King’s Spy and the King’s Own. There’s a nasty bully in Haven – he or she is targeting the women of Haven that have dared to set themselves up in positions better than

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