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Julie Cross’s LETTERS TO NOWHERE 22 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Julie Cross‘s LETTERS TO NOWHERE was one of those impulse buys (helped along by the bargain price, I may add). I’ve gotten used to the dead parents face. I’ve gotten used to living with my gymnastics...
Link Round Up 19 Aug 2013 | 11:18 pm
A list of links I’ve been meaning to post for a while: Bookmarking this for whenever I’m in the need for more space opera goodness - though note the caveat that these aren’t necessarily positive reco...
Sunday Thoughts 11 Aug 2013 | 08:57 pm
I was really sad when I heard of Barbara Mertz‘s (a.k.a. Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Michaels) passing (link via Janicu @ SpecFicRomantic). She was 85, and lived life to the full from all accounts – I l...
Books for August 4 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
August new releases on my radar: * Tammara Webber‘s HERE WITHOUT YOU (NA romance): The first book in Tammara Webber’s Between The Lines series ended up being one of my favourite reads of 2012, and I...
Linkage – Mostly Self-Pubbed and SFF 29 Jul 2013 | 10:50 pm
Posts that have caught my eye over the past couple of weeks (with an unintentional self/small pub and SFF focus): An interview with Marko Kloos, author of TERMS OF ENLISTMENT (military SF) – he talks...
Debra Doyle & James D Macdonald’s THE PRICE OF THE STARS 20 Jul 2013 | 08:47 pm
I’ve been skirting the question of blogging and reading slumps recently, but I’m been wondering if I just needed to take a proper break. And then I stumbled across this book in my TBR pile. It was a...
Summer Ramblings 13 Jul 2013 | 07:57 pm
Now that Wimbledon is over*, I figured I should do a post to prove I’m still here. And I do actually have a couple of things to talk about! ************ Lois McMaster Bujold (finally) moved her blo...
Books for July 1 Jul 2013 | 02:56 pm
The July new releases I have on my list… Lisa Lutz‘s THE LAST WORD (mystery): It’s been a while since the last Spellman book – I wasn’t sure if there would be another one, so was delighted to see thi...
Theresa Rizzo’s HE BELONGS TO ME 26 Jun 2013 | 06:46 pm
I’m always on the lookout for new-to-me authors and was in the mood for contemporary romance, so when Theresa Rizzo‘s self-pubbed debut HE BELONGS TO ME popped up in my inbox, it grabbed my attention....
Victoria Fox’s WICKED AMBITION 22 Jun 2013 | 08:22 pm
I’m slowly being tempted back into the chick-lit* genre by Sophie Kinsella’s recent books, but it’s been a very long while since I’ve read what’s now called “bonkbusters” (is this a uniquely British t...