Category: Books

The Chimneys of Green Knowe by

Tolly has returned to Green Knowe, his great-grandmother’s house, for the Easter break. But he is disappointed to discover that something is different. The painting of his previous playmates has been...

Mount TBR – August

I did so well this month, only added 5 books, and I’ve already read one! Go me. Graudin, Ryan – Wolf by wolf : SF Signal (Kristin Centorcelli) describes it as...

The Blue Place by

When you read that a series of books are “brilliant and heartbreaking and made of awesome sauce and everybody should read them but go into them blind or you won’t get...

Hounded by

Book 1 in the Iron Druid Chronicles Atticus O’Sullivan is not what he appears to be. He is not 21 years old. He is not American. His name isn’t even Atticus,...

The Empire Ascendant by

The Worldbreaker Saga # 2. Received free from Netgalley, this book will be published in October. I’m stealing the description from netgalley because I hate recapping follow up books in a...

The Glad Hosts by

Read the short story online at Lackington’s and then the discussion on metafilter. Mai is a colonist on Shanti, entranced with this alien world and its permanent spring. Although it took...

The law of becoming by

The fourth novel of the Jaran The closer I got to the end of this book the slower I found myself reading. I just didn’t want it to end. First of...

Ant-man dir. by

Sometimes I have to wonder why, exactly, a story has to be told. Why this particular story, with this articular character. Because watching Ant-man the overwhelming feeling I had was “meh”...

Tweet tweet – 18 July 15

Some randomness from the past week : Send help! Can't put Jaran #2 down. I keep saying just one more chapter but then the end of chapter comes & I keep...

Mount TBR – July

I never did a Mount TBR post last month, but that’s because I went on holiday to Canada1 with a little day trip to Skagway, Alaska2 so there may be more...

An earthly crown by

I hate writing recaps of follow up books in a series. I never know what to give away about the previous book so I’ll just copy and paste the blurb from...

Jaran by

Novels of the Jaran, book 1 The Chapalii empire rules over all the known galaxy. Earth and all her allies have been subsumed, not conquered, into it. But no humans have...