Read for the RIP Reading Challenge. In the future, humanity has been enslaved by a race of Overlords that use people as the raw materials to construct their armies. Children are harvested on their 14th birthday. Occasionally, children do escape, and some find their way to Shade’s hideaway. Shade was once a man, but is […]
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Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. The more Heyer I read, the more I realize I like her older books better. They’re light and fun, like all her books, but less likely to run to the absurd. This book is one of her earlier books, and it runs toward the absurd frequently. Judith Taverner
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Read for the RIP IX Reading Challenge. I really hadn’t meant to have a historical mystery theme to my RIP reading this year, but that does seem to be what I have in my TBR pile lately. This is book five of the Brother Cadfael books. Brother’s Cadfael’s abbey is in a bit of an
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Read for the RIP IX Reading Challenge. In the 12th century, the Royal Forests were hunting lands reserved for the king, where even gathering firewood was forbidden to anyone else. Actually poaching in these lands could lead to a death sentence. This story is set in Devon, in the area around Exeter and Dartmoor, where
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Read for the RIP IV Reading Challenge. Kate’s husband has been given a fantastic opportunity to work for a bank in Luxembourg, an opportunity so fantastic that Kate quits her job, in order to take care of their two kids on this adventure of a lifetime. Which seems perfectly normal, except that Kate works for
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Read for the Georgette Heyer Reading Challenge. Adam Deveril had always been army mad, and though he’s the heir to his father, the Viscount Lynton, his father (an associate of the Prince Regent’s, and if you know your history, you know what kind of men he liked to hang out with) never really bothered to
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Read for the RIP IX Reading Challenge. Mercy Thompson can’t catch a break. This is the third book in the series. After the first, she owed the vampires for their help with the werewolves, and now, after the second book, she owes the Fae for their help while she discharged her debt to the vampires.
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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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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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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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