Danse Macabre by Laurell K. Hamilton
ISBN: 1841494747 #14 in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter verse Read for the RIP Challenge See also: Voracious Reader ; It’s not the heat, it’s the humanity It all went downhill...
11 September 2007
The Prestige by Christopher Priest
It began on a train, heading north through England, although I was soon to discover that the story had really begun more than a hundred years earlier.
The Prestige is a book that covers three different generations of two families, told by a number of different narrators, all in the first person, as they tell their stories in their diaries. Those of you who have seen the film version will be aware that the prestige of the title is the payoff to a magic trick. What you might not know is that this term was invented by Priest but has since come into common usage among practising magicians.
8 September 2007
Fool Moon by Jim Butcher
ISBN: 1841493996 Book two in The Dresden Files read for the RIP Challenge I never used to keep close track of the phases of the moon Harry Dresden is a wizard....
6 September 2007
Simon the Coldheart by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 0330258303 See also: Dusty Pages | According to the introduction to this by Heyer’s son this novel was one of the 5 or 6 that Heyer wished never to be...
8 August 2007
Time and Again by Jack Finney
See also: LibraryThing | SFF Masterworks | Andy’s Anachronisms | Books you never read | Thoughts on writing and other afflictions | Book reviews by Emma | MADreads In shirt-sleeves, the...
1 August 2007
Goblin Quest by Jim C. Hines
ISBN: 0756404002 Group read with FantasyFavorites Book 1 in the Jig series. See also: Jim C Hines’ Sff site ; Backcountry Musings ; Barbarienne’s Den Jig hated muck duty. He didn’t...
29 July 2007
Good news everybody
I seem to have de-slumped from the whole taking forever to read a book. Course I still haven’t finished The Story of English, but non-fiction books always take me longer than...
24 July 2007
The Limits of Enchantment by Graham Joyce
ISBN: 0575072318 See also:Agony column ; Joyce discusses his book ; If I could tell you this in a single sitting then you might believe all of it, even the strangest...
23 July 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
The two men appeared out of nowhere, a few yards apart in the narrow, moonlit lane.
21 July 2007
A Long Long Way by Sebastian Barry
ISBN: 0571218016 See also: Three Monkey’s Interview ; Dublin’s One Book One City ; He was born in the dying days. It was the withering end of 1896. He was called...
19 July 2007
Restoration by Rose Tremain
ISBN: 9780340936436 Read with HistoricalFavorites I am, I discover, a very untidy man. Look at me. Without my periwig, I am an affront to neatness. Robert Merival, the narrator of Rose...
17 July 2007