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I'm reading the Patricia Brigg's Alpha and Omega series after finishing her Mercedes Thompsons. The series were recommended by a friend who is also a Dresden Files fan. While technically in the same genre and quite enjoyable so far, they are no Dresden Files. On their own merit though, Mercedes is a highly likable character with a great supporting cast. Interestingly, the fae have "come out" to some extent in these books and the consequences are only just beginning to reverberate through as the werewolves also reveal themselves.
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I'm in the middle of Garth Nix's Sabriel (first in a fantasy series), and I'm plodding away at Count Zero by William Gibson (One of my all time favorite authors).
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Fun fact: Iceland has one of the highest per capita would-be author populations in the world. Apparently at least 30%+ of all Icelanders will at one point try their hand at writing and publishing something, even if it's only an article in a magazine. * I should probably warn that IP is quite good, but very depressing. |
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LOL!! To each her own. I adore Dresden, and will be sitting at my computer with my finger hovering over the "buy" button on July 26th at 12:01 a.m. (which is when Ghost Story is being released to ebook). Dresden was my introduction to UF - and I've apparently never looked back. My UF collection of ebooks would rival my Cozy collection except that there aren't quite as many UF authors and the genre hasn't been around as long. |
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Maria Schneider
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I finished Robert Kroese's Mercury Falls. Hilarious. I was cackling out loud at times. It had a few problems towards the end when it forgot to be hilarious, but a renegade angel by the name of Galileo Mercury, a 37 year-old dickweed of an anti-christ living in his mother's attic, and a popular (some say satanic) YA fantasy series (starring a young wizard) more than made up for it. There were more than few giggles and snorts along the way, as this particular Apocalypse unfolded (or was bungled). Many of the cultural references seemed geared toward the over 40 crowd, so age could very well play a part in whether anyone else finds it funny or not. The jokes just seemed to fall right into my wheel-house.
Some notable short stories I recently read included "Creation" by Jeffrey Ford (as prevously mentioned), Aliette de Bodard's "The Jaguar House, In Shadow", "Eliot Wrote" by Nancy Kress, and Amal El-Mohtar's "The Green Book". |
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A little like Soulless, where the couple-to-be are still spending much of the time panting and pawing at each other, only with slightly less of a sense of humour since instead of being tongue in cheek, the narrative seems to be seriously for serious about the heroine's apparent-disadvantages-that-turns-out-to-be-a-Good-Thing™ virtues and the Victorian social structures/gender relations (aside from letting girls make machines and wield swords, which it's fairly reasonable about). And I don't know whether this would be considered a plus or not as far as your reading tastes go, but when I say that they couple like crazed ice weasels for 20% of the book, they really do couple like crazed ice weasels for 20% of the book. And it's rather… lovingly described. But yeah, there's a reasonable amount of time spent on actually trying to find out whodunnit, so it's fairly decent in that regard. Quote:
You have got to hie yourself over to Amazon's summer sale and get yourself a copy of Barbara Hambly's Those Who Hunt the Night, which has been dropped to a dirt cheap 99 cents. (Sidebox says you have an iPad, so you can use the Kindle app if you're not going to strip and convert, yes? Or you could wait a bit to see if the other stores pricematch, since Amazon says the sale is valid until the 15th or so and maybe they're pulling from publisher promos already.) I'm pretty sure I don't have to sell you on the quality and enjoyability of Hambly's writing since you've read her already, but I'm going to say that this is one of her very best books in any genre, and it's an awesome take on Victorian (okay, Edwardian) paranormal investigations involving finding out whodunnit when the apparent set of murders involves vampires-with-no-y. Plus it's got academics and redheads, though those are really only bonuses for my reading tastes. Anyway, it is really and truly excellent and imaginative and well-researched, -thought-out, and -written and worth at least fivefold every single penny of the 99 cents plus tax you'd spend (and I shall be picking up my own copy as soon as I'm done typing this, which will make it the 3rd version I personally own). It's a bit on the thriller-esque side and the sequels while still mostly very good, don't come nearly up to the same level, but I think you'll really enjoy the series, especially since you like amateur sleuth mysteries and paranormal fantasy. And that has been my enabling deed for the day. And once I'm done my 1-clicking, will be moving on to continue with Jim and Joyce Lavene's 2nd Renaissance Festival mystery, Ghastly Glass, which sees another craft apprenticeship turned murder investigation for our intrepid amateur sleuth. "Another year, another dead body", as the Amelia Peabody books would say. |
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I have just started the last Clive Cussler Oregon Files. I would like to some Dorothea Benton Frank books as my wife read a review of her books this weekend. If anyone has a copy of her work please post.
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The Quest for Anna Klein by Thomas H. Cook. It's an historical espionage thriller about a rookie American attempt to stop WWII by assassinating Hitler, as told by the protagonist Danforth in 2001. It's an ARC for a review; the book's out this month.
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Next: Asimov's SF, July 2011, also the latest issue. |
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Started Agatha H and the Airship City by the Foglios. My library was able to get me a copy by way of an inter-library loan.
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I get them in hardcover myself, but they're cheapest at Kobo with discount coupons and Severn House has been pretty good about doing e-editions of Hambly's latest with only a couple of months' delay from the HC release. Anyway, to make up for making you buy a new book and thereby its entire accompanying series, there were a number of freebie cozy/comedy/amateur sleuth mysteries that came free yesterday. If you frequent the Deals forum, you may have already seen them, but just in case: June Bug by Jess Loury (1st in Murder-By-Month)[/URL] I Spy by Kate Johnson (1st in Sophie Green Mysteries) In the Belly of Jonah and Lot's Return to Sodom by Sandra Brennan (1st and 2nd in Liv Bergen mystery/thrillers) It does nothing for the state of your TBR mountain, but at least your wallet will be a little happier? Though probably not if you end up picking the rest of those series, as well. Quote:
So far the star couple has been through
Well, I'm not reading these things for historical accuracy anyway. Or for the relationship drama, either, which leads me to think once the main plot is underway, "Well, no wonder someone's apparently trying to kill you. If I had to stand and watch your repeated snipe-then-smooching all day, then I'd be tempted to make with the stabbity, too!" And then I remember that I actually am sitting and watching their repeated snipe-then-smooching. And then I wonder exactly how one would go about stabbing fictional characters, if one were so inclined. Probably with one of those fictionalizer book-contents-visiting machines like in Futurama. Mind you, I think in part it can be chalked up to the fact that the leads clearly have an unequal relationship. After all, one of them is a promising young person with a decent career behind them and a maybe-bright future ahead, and the other is a lawyer named for a merged banking megacorp. Maybe traditional naming practices in the US mean that the latter is actually a perfectly suitable moniker for loving parents to inflict upon their child, but I know that if I were to spend a season working at the replica Viking tourist village over at L'Anse aux Meadows and happened to meet an attractive person of any gender who was named something similar, like, say, Toronto Dominion, even if he/she/it were an academic redhead, I would be too busy trying to suppress uncontrollable snickering to get anywhere near the smooching stage. Anyway, aside from the relationship drama and the amateur sleuth's personal issues, which I could have cheerfully skipped, this was an okay book with good glimpses into the craft being ostensibly studied and a decent whodunnit with multiple suspects and a reasonable resolution. A bit better than the last one, but still some rather ridiculous elements, though a little less over-the-top than last time. And I did like the faux-newsletter of Renaissance-ish activities and customs in the back. Can't really recommend unless you've got a high tolerance for silliness and really like looking at dysfunctional historical recreation performance projects and the dysfunctional persons who recreate them while projecting their personal issues, but I liked this enough that I'm willing to seek out the next book from the library, even if I personally wouldn't shell more than about $2.50 out of pocket for a copy and only then if I were feeling very generous. |
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