August 5, 2009

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• Book Log #59: The Curse of the Pharoahs, by Elizabeth Peters
  My rating: 4 of 5 stars After the awesomeness that is Crocodile on the Sandbank, the mighty opening round of the Amelia Peabody series, a reader might wonder how Elizabeth Peters could possibly have packed more awesome into these books. The answer: by the introduction of Amelia and Emerson’s son, the “catastrophically precocious” Walter Peabody […]
• One more book update
  I’m not sure yet if this is the last round of B&N freebies; the promotion was supposed to run up through the 14th, so I’m thinking there’ll be at least one more round before they’re done. This one I’m particularly happy about though since it includes King Solomon’s Mines, a novel that’s specifically called out […]
• Book update!
  I came to the decision that since I’d violated my New Books Hiatus by buying that antho (although I still excuse myself for that on the grounds of Special Circumstances, and also, supporting jpsorrow), I am therefore delaying buying new books at least for a few more days even though the Hiatus is technically over! […]
• LJ’s latest PrivacyFail
  I’ve seen a lot of news going around about this, but for those of you who haven’t, LJ has just turned on new functionality to crosspost to Facebook and Twitter. On the face of it this seems fine. I crosspost regularly, as y’all probably know; all my posts these days originate from my WordPress blogs, […]
• Book Log #58: Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters
  My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of my all-time favorite authors is Elizabeth Peters, a.k.a. Barbara Michaels–and of her many, many works, my all-time favorite hands down is the Amelia Peabody series. Which starts off with a mighty roar in Crocodile on the Sandbank, a book I can go back to again and again. […]