Reading about bloggers’ favorite books recently inspired me to pick up some classics I missed in college. A lot of people mentioned Middlemarch as a favorite. I always meant to read something by George Eliot so this was long overdue, and I’m really enjoying it so far. A couple of months ago I wrote a…
Review: Where Serpents Sleep by C.S. Harris
This is the fourth book in a historical mystery series about Sebastian St. Cyr, a troubled nobleman in Regency England (he is probably troubled in part because he has such a romance-novelish name). The historical mystery is a genre I really like and one you don’t hear much about. Two of my favorite series are…
Review: Tongues of Serpents by Naomi Novik
Spoiler Alert: Don’t read this review if you haven’t read books 1-5 in the series. If you like fantasy and historical fiction, and haven’t read this series, I highly recommend you pick up book 1, His Majesty’s Dragon. I had been looking forward to this book for a while, and I was disappointed. Novik’s Temeraire…
This Week’s Hop: Books on the To-Be-Read Pile
The question for this week’s Blog Hop is “How many books do you have on your to-be-read shelf? If you see some of my recent posts or my “In the Queue” page, you’ll know I have a TON of books in my mental “to be read list” but those aren’t ones I actually own. In…
On Nine Years of Marriage…
My anniversary was last week – nine years of absolutely-almost-always-perfect bliss. Believe me when I say I could not ask for more. On the day of our anniversary, we had plans, made months ago, for a summer evening picnic and jazz concert. Unfortunately work intervened and I ended up working until 10:30 pm, he ended…
Playing Catch Up…
I’ve fallen pretty far behind on reviews, so this is just a quick post to write about WHAT I’ve been reading, and what you might expect in the near future. If there’s a book you want to hear more about, let me know! WWW.Wake by Robert Sawyer — a really interesting story; I didn’t always…
Review: Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton
I bought this book for my husband, a big Star Trek fan. But I’ll admit to buying it for myself too. I’m not a Trekkie, but I loved Next Generation, and lately we’ve been watching Wheaton on The Guild, which is hilarious. But Wheaton is also a blogger, and this book describes how he created…
This Week’s Blog Hop
This week on the Blog Hop, hosted by Crazy-for-Books, the question is, what is your favorite new-to-you author this year? So many choices! I thought about Gail Carriger, Suzanne Collins, Garth Nix, C.S. Harris, and Carrie Vaughn. And then I picked two others you might not have heard of. The first is an author who…
New Kindles announced!
Well, yesterday I was “scooped” by Amazon – two new Kindles have been announced! You can see more at http://www.amazon.com or read about them in this New York Times article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/29/technology/29kindle.html?_r=1&hpw. Amazon is selling a $139 Kindle with Wi-Fi only, and a $189 with 3G. According to the New York Times, “Both new Kindles are…
No More Kindles?
The big Kindle news today was that Amazon has sold out of the 6 inch Kindle 2 model. No information forthcoming about when Kindles might be back in stock. So what does that mean? It means the Kindle is selling well for one thing, and that’s good news for us Kindle fans. And what I…
Top Ten Tuesday
Work has been overwhelming lately, and between work and travel I haven’t posted in over a week. Blogging must have really gotten under my skin because I missed it the whole time – but I’ve just felt too brain dead to post anything. But this week’s Top Ten Tuesday (from The Broke and The Bookish)…
Review: A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
I loved this book. Each chapter is sort of its own story, told from a different character’s point of view, with characters intersecting throughout the book in various ways. One review I read described it as a book of short stories, and for that reason I almost didn’t buy it. But these aren’t short stories…
The Book Stop 