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Jane Austen: Cover to Cover – Margaret C. Sullivan

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LibraryThing Early Readers book. I will admit, I would probably never have bought this book, but I’m really happy to have it.    It’s exactly what the title says it is – Jane Austen book covers through the years from first publication, up to the present day.      It’s a really neat study on changing times, changing […]

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Venetia – Georgette Heyer

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Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. When you’ve read enough of Heyer’s work, you begin to sense certain themes.    One of her favorites is a slightly older women (older being relative in Regency times) who’s practically on the shelf, and has given up on the idea of marriage for some reason (fortunately, she’s also

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The Creeps – John Connolly

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Read for the RIP IX Reading Challenge. Were it not for a well timed trip to Northshire Books, I would not have known this book was out.   It’s the third book in a trilogy about Samuel Johnson’s multi-dimensional adventures, after the small English town he lives in becomes the fore-front in an invasion from Hell.

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RIP IX Reading Challenge 9/1/14 – 10/31/14

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Hard to believe it’s that time of year again, but it’s nearly Fall, so it’s time for the RIP challenge.   I’ve actually started, after a well timed visit to my favorite independent bookstore, where I was able to scour the recommendations, and supplement what I already had available in the following categories: Mystery, Suspense, Thriller,

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The Word for World is Forest – Ursula K. LeGuin

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This is the kind of book you can point to when some sneering “literary writing only” nitwit tries to tell you that genre fiction can’t address larger themes or important messages. In this book, the planet of New Tahiti (as the Earth human refer to it) already has an indigenous population of humans that happen

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Dead in the Family – Charlaine Harris

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I have to admit, this book felt a bit weird to me.    It almost seemed like one long transition piece.    There was some set up to deal with the fall out from the fairy war, and those that were trapped on Earth when the gates were closed.     There was some set up with the Weres

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Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Three Adventures – Garth Nix

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This ebook is a compilation of three short stories that appear in different anthologies.   Mister Fitz is an animate puppet, who was once the nursemaid to Sir Hereward, but has now become his companion as they travel to rid the world of godlets that are trying to invade from a different dimension. Since they’re just

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Monk’s Hood – Ellis Peters

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In this third Brother Cadfael book, a local landowner has given his estate to the Abbey, in exchange for them taking care of him and his wife for the rest of their lives.    Unfortunately, on one of his first nights there, he is murdered, killed by one of Brother Cadfael’s potions, that is normally used

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Oathbreakers – Mercedes Lackey

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I actually came to Mercedes Lackey’s books through the Tarma and Kethry books (I remember liking the covers), which are actually not so great a gateway.    The first book (The Oathbound) isn’t really their first story – it’s a short story that appears in one of the Sword and Sorceress anthologies.     I found these when

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Victory of Eagles – Naomi Novik

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Napoleon invades England!    Obviously, at this point, the Temeraire novels have gone pretty far off the history of the actual Napoleonic wars, but that’s good, because they’d otherwise be way too predictable. In the last book, Laurence was sentenced to hang as a traitor, for bringing the cure to the dragon plague to the mainland

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