Month: January 2012
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2012 Book Log #7: Bloodshot, by Cherie Priest
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Urban fantasy has to work very, very hard to seize and hold my attention these days, and I say this fully cognizant of how there are a great number of authors out there writing awesome books. For me, it’s just been a matter of wanting to read so many…
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2011 Book Log #44: Die in Plain Sight, by Elizabeth Lowell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Die in Plain Sight is a bit of an odd duck in the run of Elizabeth Lowell novels, straddling as it does the line between her Donovan series and her Rarities Unlimited ones. Goodreads classifies it as a Rarities book, but the two series are set in the same…
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Americanization of Sherlock Holmes: how bad an idea is this?
I’m seeing initial waves of nerd rage over this news that CBS is trying to develop its own pilot for a modernization of Sherlock Holmes, set in New York City. The timing of this, given that there is another active modernization of Sherlock Holmes in production with the BBC, is not a coincidence; note that…
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2012 Book Log #6: Ganymede, by Cherie Priest
My rating: 5 of 5 stars The fourth installment in Cherie Priest’s Clockwork Century series, Ganymede is now finally getting into actual sequel territory. Like Clementine and Dreadnought, it’s a standalone story–but this time, one of the spotlight characters in fact someone who previously showed up in Boneshaker, and we’ve got clear followup to the…
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Another year, another round of LJ fail
For those of you who may not have seen this yet, this story started going around last night. I saw the LJ Twitter account link to it, so one presumes this is indeed legit. The article’s talking about future plans for LJ, and it’s looking like the ongoing trend of not giving a damn about…
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Tonight’s adventures in Nethack
One of the side effects of playing all this Skyrim here at the Murk: I’ve totally gotten back onto a Nethack kick. I had a great game going, and fired up the save file from yesterday’s run tonight. I was in Sokoban and died horribly, like ya do, ’cause, well, Nethack. I proceeded to have…
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Incoming Seattle snowstorm alert for Murkworks.net users
Most of you out there probably are aware already, but just in case you aren’t, be advised that we have serious snow on the way here. Therefore, as is often the case when we have wacky fun weathertimes, connectivity to Murkworks.net and resources we house may be impacted. Our power may go out, or even…
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2011 Book Log #43: Running Scared, by Elizabeth Lowell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Running Scared is Book 2 of Elizabeth Lowell’s Rarities Unlimited series, but I was a bit disappointed to see that it didn’t quite live up to the enjoyment I got out of Book 1, Moving Target. This is not to say that Running Scared was bad, mind you–it’s just…
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2012 Book Log #5: Unclaimed, by Courtney Milan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s a romance staple to do a series of interconnected books all featuring siblings in the same family, or employees of the same agency, or what have you. Courtney Milan’s Turner series is no exception. And happily, Unclaimed, the second book in the series, turned out to be just…
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2011 Book Log #96: Unveiled, by Courtney Milan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars (Note: I’m posting this review out of order because my next 2012 Book Log post is book 2 of this same series–and I didn’t want to post the review of the second before I posted the review of the first!) I come to Courtney Milan courtesy of the fine…