Orannia has presented me with the Little CJ Blog Award. Thanks, Orannia! I am honored (and frightened by Little CJ’s threat but more pleased than scared). Little CJ has ordained that I must pass this award on to only two blogs, thus proving she is truly diabolical in nature. Only two of the many fantastic blogs I read? That’s really tough. So I decided to use the same method Orannia did – which blogs have added a lot to my […]

Sometime in June, I want to read a book by an author who is new to me and has had a book sitting unread on my shelf for at least a year. I’m not sure which one to choose, though, so I made a poll for it. The poll will stay open until I finish The Silver Metal Lover and either Busted Flush or The Last Argument of Kings. The options are: J.V. Jones – A Cavern of Black IceCatherynne […]

Interested in reading all about Wolverine from the X-Men? I have five copies of The Wolverine Files by Mike W. Barr to give away (sorry, US and Canada residents only for this one). Here is the book description from the Simon and Schuster website (where you can also purchase The Wolverine Files if you absolutely can’t wait to find out if you won a copy): This book is a top secret compilation of all known facts about the mutant called […]

Santa Oliviaby Jacqueline Carey352pp (Trade Paperback)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.17/5Goodreads Rating: 3.89/5 Santa Olivia is one of two new books being released by Jacqueline Carey, author of the well-known Kushiel’s Legacy series, this year. Its official publication date is May 29. All of Carey’s other books are epic fantasy, and this urban fantasy is very different from her previous work. As far as I know, this novel is a stand alone, but there is plenty of room for […]

Well, I mostly stuck to my reading plan for this month. Amazon was shipping Jacqueline Carey’s Santa Olivia earlier than I’d expected so I got a copy of that a couple of days ago and stopped reading The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle to read that one. It was a quick read and I finished it today so I’ll go back to reading The Mote in God’s Eye. I noticed today that there is a […]