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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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This is more of a novella – starting with a young widow purchasing a new house to get away from the memories of her dead husband. The house has been on the market for a while, because it’s supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young girl. Naturally, Clara sees the ghost. In trying to
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A story in which the daughters of the mad scientists of the Victorian age (Jekyll, Rappaccini, Moreau and Frankenstein) team up with Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the murders of young women in London. I liked this book. It took a bit to get going, but once it was going, it was good.
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I picked this one up for free because it was labeled a regency romance, and the plot seemed promising – young man is trying to save his family’s fortune, and encounters a young woman tangled up in the mess that may be able to help him. It’s not a bad book, but I can’t say
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