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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.…
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Book Log #57: Blood, Smoke and Mirrors
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Robyn Bachar’s Blood, Smoke and Mirrors was favorable reviewed on Smart Bitches, and that’s always a fine thing, so I took it upon myself to check this book out. It was my first from Samhain Press, who certainly did make an impression upon me with the gorgeous cover for…
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Book Log #56: Matters of the Blood, by Maria Lima
My rating: 4 of 5 stars You can’t pick up an urban fantasy these days without getting some variation on the “heroine in tough pose and generally without a head” cover. Nor are your chances good of finding an urban fantasy that does not involve vampires. Maria Lima’s Matters of the Blood has both of…
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Word count metrics update
I’ve been in another prolonged writing funk, which has been frustrating–so tonight I tried another round of throwing tiny bits of words at stuff. Got up to just over 200 by throwing small words at four different things, so I’ll take that! So we’ve got 51 words into Chapter 4 of Shadow of the Rook,…
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Really now, I just want stuff to work
Is that too much to ask? Grf. Case in point: my computer surgery from yesterday. Winnowill’s hard drive had started making disturbing, unusually loud noises when spinning up out of hibernation. This concerned me, especially given that everybody I mentioned this to said “yep, time to get a new hard drive”. So yesterday I went…
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Book Log #55: Uglies, by Scott Westerfeld
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies was one of those books I’d been hearing about for ages, and I’ll cheerily admit that glancing at the blurbs on it and the other books in the series in a bookstore did pique my interest. I did not, however, get a chance to read this…
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Book Log #54: Carnal Innocence, by Nora Roberts
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nora Roberts really does love her some “girl who’s been away for ages goes back to family home in a small town, and OHNOEZ THERE’S A MURDER” plots, and Carnal Innocence is yet another one of those type of books. Fortunately, this is a plot formula that Ms. Roberts…
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Okay yeah fine hiatus didn’t last the month
It will probably surprise none of you that I did not actually make it to the end of this month without buying a brand new book. However, in my own defense, I will add that the book in question was the anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, edited by , the lady who was…
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Book Log #53: Red Hood’s Revenge, by Jim C. Hines
My rating: 4 of 5 stars It gives me great, great glee to think of Jim Hines’ version of Little Red Riding Hood: a formidable assassin, “the Lady of the Red Hood”, whose magical cape grants her the ability to take on wolf form. She’s the central new character in Book 3 of his Princess…
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Saturday’s reading
Although my foray into Great Big Sea video fandom did not go as hoped, I can say that Saturday’s reading at the Wayward did go quite swimmingly! I was horribly nervous, enough that when I got up to do my bit from Chapter 1, I could feel my knees loosen–and when I got done and…
