Fifteen year old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with her cousins, who she’s never met. She’s just settling into her life there when an Enemy attacks Britain, and the kids are cut off by themselves in their country home. At first, their life is exciting, but then the […]
How I Live Now – Meg Rosoff Read More »
Gertrude Bell lived a life few women could lay a claim to in the turn of the last century. Coming from a well off family in Britain, she was able to finance explorations into Arabia and Mesopotamia. And with the knowledge and connections she gained in those trips, she became indispensable to the British government
Desert Queen – Janet Wallach Read More »
This book definitely fell into the overly fluffy side of Heyer’s oeuvre. In it, we find the handsome Viscount Desford, who seems to like to run around the countryside visiting people, attending a ball while visiting his aunt. The ball was thrown to showcase the eldest daughter of the house, but Desford happens to meet
Charity Girl – Georgette Heyer Read More »
Ok, I freely admit, the Nikki Heat books are not high art. But they’re really fun to read, and they’re getting better the further into the series they get. This book delves into the mystery of Nikki’s mother’s murder. Granted, that’s supposed to be modeled on Beckett’s mother’s murder on the show, but they take
Frozen Heat – Richard Castle Read More »
I can knock another one off my I really need to track this down and read it list. I’ve had this on my radar because my friend B loves these books. This omnibus is the story of how Cordelia Naismaith meets Aral Vorkosigan, who starts out as her enemy, and later marries him. I love
Cordelia’s Honor – Lois McMaster Bujold Read More »
I once tried to describe this series as the Northeast equivalent of the Sookie Stackhouse books – there’s lots of supernatural people right under the nose of the heroine that she had no idea were there until she somewhat accidentally stumbles upon their world, but Jane swears like a sailor, which Sookie would never do.
Tempest’s Legacy – Nicole Peeler Read More »
I really wasn’t sure what to expect from this book – with the words “diet dropout” in the title, I wasn’t sure how much it would talk about food, and if not, what else it could possible talk about. It did turn out to not talk a lot about food – other than some pretty
The Diet Dropout’s Guide to Natural Weight Loss- Stan Spencer Read More »
For the first book I actually started reading in the new year, I decided I really needed to pull the oldest book out of the Tote (er, Bookcase) of Shame – made very easy by the sorting ability of LibraryThing in the Collections view. I picked this book up in my used book store travels
The Universe Below – William J. Broad Read More »
This is the very first of the Other Tales of Valdemar series, where Mercedes Lackey opened up the world to other authors, and once I started it, I remembered I had in fact read it before, so it is a reread, though I had no memory of some of the stories, while remembering others. Like
Sword of Ice – ed. Mercedes Lackey Read More »
84 books – pretty good, I’d say. I managed to tackle a number of older books in the Tote of Shame (not that it’s gone down very much, but the dates at least looks better), and I only started one book I wasn’t able to finish (view that here).
