Peter Grant has just reached the end of his probationary period in the London Metropolitan Police. He wants to be a detective, but his superiors have pretty much decided he’s ripe for a desk job. But that changes the night that he’s given an exclusive eye witness account to a […]
Midnight Riot/Rivers of London – Ben Aaronovitch Read More »
This book is Sense and Sensibility for the modern age – sisters Annie and Miranda are accompanying their mother to a extended exile in Westport, Connecticut when their step-father dumps Betty for a much younger woman. Annie’s Edward is Frederick, famous author and brother to the much younger woman now shacked up with her step-father.
The Three Weissmanns of Westport – Cathleen Schine Read More »
Here’s my serious reading for the year – one of the first primary sourced histories written out of England. Bede was a monk who lived nearly his entire life between two monasteries in Northumberland, so there’s a decided religious slant to the narrative, but he’s very careful to give as well rounded a picture of
The History of the English Church and People – Bede Read More »
I’ve had this book in the Tote of Shame ™ for a while – I think because I’d never read any of the author’s work before, so I really wasn’t sure to expect. So I’ve been passing it by because I never know if it’s going to fit whatever reading mood I’m in
To Say Nothing of the Dog – Connie Willis Read More »
I think what I most liked about this book was that Gaiman outlined where each of the stories or poems came from in the introduction. That’s not something authors do often, though he mentioned he thought this was his least thematic short story collection, so perhaps that was his way of pulling things
Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman Read More »
I am so conflicted about this book. To the point of where if I had not already read the two books that came before it, I don’t think I would have finished it. And I’m really not sure if I’m going to pass it on to the two people that I had loaned
The Fall of the Kings – Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman Read More »
I read the precursor to this book – A Thousand Days in Venice – quite a while ago. In that book, the author had thrown her life in the US over to go to Italy and marry a man she didn’t know very well. The first book is the story of her learning
A Thousand Days in Tuscany – Marlena de Blasi Read More »
Ranira is a bond servant, more or less owned by an innkeeper after her parents were killed for being witches. She knows they were innocent, but that didn’t stop them from dying. When some foreigners make arrangements to stay in the city, even though the biggest religious festival of the year
Daughter of Witches – Patricia C. Wrede Read More »
Blue’s the only member of a clairvoyant family that can’t see the future- what she does do is help others see more clearly. The only thing her mother will share about her future is that if she kisses her one true love, he will die. So she’s decided she won’t kiss any boys
The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater Read More »
Here’s another “dashing Georgian gentleman has a young girl trying to escape her not so nice relatives pretty much fall in his lap (figuratively, not literally), where he must then aid her in her adventures” Georgette Heyer story. In this case, it’s Sir Richard Wyndham, second in society only to Beau Brummell, who has just
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