Month: September 2010
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Beta readers for Lament, check in?
Three of you have checked in with me, but I haven’t heard from the other five…? (Many thanks to and and for keeping me apprised of your various levels of ability to deal with the reading, I much appreciate the updates!) As an FYI to y’all reading, I’m currently in chapter 9 of the word…
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Book Log #67: Seeing a Large Cat, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars The ninth book of the Amelia Peabody series, Seeing a Large Cat, is a significant turning point in the overall saga of the Emerson family. It’s the first of the internal quartet of books that follows the arc of the love story between Ramses and Nefret, and it’s also…
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Book Log #66: The Hippopotamus Pool, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Truth be told, it’d been so long since I’d read The Hippopotamus Pool, book 8 of the Amelia Peabodies, that I’d totally forgotten what it was about–and in particular, that it introduced the critical character of David Todros, grandson of Abdullah, the Emerson family’s reis. After recently re-reading it,…
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Some potential Awesome
Courtesy of , I hear tell of a forthcoming anthology that involves the words “lesbian” and “steampunk”. I do believe I shall have to check this out, and if I can score a review ARC, I will totally be bumping it up to the top of my reading queue. More details over here! Oh, and…
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Book Log #65: The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have frequently admitted that I am a sucker for an amnesia plot, that grand old staple of television series and of romance novels–and yeah, Elizabeth Peters has one, too. That would be The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, Book 7 of the Amelia Peabodies, in which Emerson…
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So if you want to read the Amelia Peabodies
asked me about this, so I thought I’d do a longer post on the topic of which books in the Amelia Peabodies are more skippable than others if you want to read the series but are finding it slow going. Book 1, Crocodile on the Sandbank. Not optional. After all, it’s how Amelia and Emerson…
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Book Log #64: The Last Camel Died at Noon, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars You really need to point at Book 6 of the Amelia Peabodies, The Last Camel Died at Noon, as one of the pivotal books of the series–because it’s here that arguably the most important character in the entire cast (aside from, of course, the Emersons themselves) is introduced. The…
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Book Log #63: The Deeds of the Disturber, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars In a series that’s famous for being primarily set in Egypt, The Deeds of the Disturber, Book 5 of the Amelia Peabodies, is quite distinctive in that it’s set in England during the off-season, when the Emerson family is between digs. It also has the good fortune of being…
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This weekend’s book report
From Carina Press: The Spurned Viscountess, by Shelley Munro. Gothic/historical romance. This one’s involving a woman who’s a healer and a psychic and who is roped into the obligatory marriage with the handsome viscount who only realizes after they’re married that hey, he really rather likes her. Also, there are the obligatory Mysterious Accidents! This…
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Reminder to beta readers
It’s the 21st and if possible I’d like to start hardcore revisions in October, so if you can get me feedback by the 1st I’d very much appreciate it! (I’m still working on the word count reduction draft, having finished chapter 6 of same last night, and I hope to have that done by then.)…