SPQR : a history of ancient Rome by Mary Beard
The Roman Empire still holds quite a sway in modern imaginations and culture. Gladiator and the tv show Rome are only two examples of its pop culture hold, and we still...
14 February 2016
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes #1, available on gutenberg. In 1881, after returning from Afghanistan Doctor John Watson is in need of rest and recuperation. He is also in need of a place to...
16 January 2016
The enchanted by Rene Denfeld
ISBN : 9780297870517 When I hear death row I usually don’t think “enchanted”, and I usually don’t look for books set in prisons or about people awaiting execution. But all last...
2 January 2016
Wake of Vultures by Lila Bowen
The Shadow #1 Nettie Lonesome was found as a baby and taken in by the Lonesome family. Which is to say used by Mam & Pap Lonesome to work and work...
2 November 2015
The Genius of Dogs by Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
“Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest...
19 September 2015
The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
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...
10 August 2015
The law of becoming by Kate Elliott
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...
25 July 2015
Jaran by Kate Elliott
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...
11 July 2015
Bryony & Roses by T. Kingfisher
A retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. Bryony is out collecting rutabaga1 seedlings2 when she gets caught in a sudden snowstorm. Just as she is beginning to lose...
31 May 2015
The day we disappeared by Lucy Robinson
Another one from Mount TBR, recommended by Ellie of Curiosity killed the Bookworm. Kate is running away from her life. The stress of her life in Dublin has prompted some sort...
2 May 2015
Wisp of a Thing by Alex Bledsoe
Rob Quillan is quasi-famous. He made the finals of a reality tv show, the producers flew his girlfriend out to the filming of the final performances, but the plane crashed on...
1 May 2015
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