Author: Kristen
New Inside the Blogosphere

Part Two of the newest version of Inside the Blogosphere is up over at Grasping for the Wind. (So is Part One, but I’m in Part Two so that’s the one that counts.) For those who don’t know, Inside the Blogosphere is a series in which a question is posed to various bloggers and each of them writes a response. The question for this one is: If you could live in an SF/Fantasy/Horror world, in which one would you live? […]

Live Chat with Lev Grossman

On Wednesday from 12:30 to 1:30 EST, Lev Grossman will be doing a live chat at Penguin’s Water Cooler site. Lev Grossman is a book critic for Time magazine as well as the author of the newly released fantasy novel The Magicians, which debuted at #9 on the New York Times bestseller list. Lev Grossman is also this week’s guest over at Babel Clash, the Borders Sci Fi blog. I’ve heard so many good things about The Magicians and am […]

Review of Rosemary and Rue

Rosemary and Rueby Seanan McGuire368pp (Paperback)My Rating: 7/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.7/5Goodreads Rating: 4.69/5 Rosemary and Rue is the first book in the October Daye urban fantasy series by Seanan McGuire. It is scheduled for release on September 1, although I did see several copies both in the new paperback section and in the SFF section at my local Borders yesterday. According to McGuire’s FAQs page, the number of books in the series is uncertain, although she says “several” is […]

SF/F/H Reviewer Linkup Meme, 2nd Edition

Over at Grasping for the Wind, John has compiled a large list of speculative fiction book reviewers. Here is the full list if anyone wants to check some of them out.Click here to view list A 7 Foot Shelves The Accidental Bard A Boy Goes on a Journey A Dribble Of Ink Adventures in Reading A Fantasy Reader The Agony Column A Hoyden’s Look at Literature All Booked Up Alexia’s Books and Such… Andromeda Spaceways The Antick Musings of G.B.H. […]

Goodreads Giveaway: Rosemary and Rue

Goodreads features book giveaways and right now they have one for 3 ARCs of Seanan McGuire’s debut, Rosemary and Rue (just scroll down or search the page for the title). Currently, I’m working on a review of this novel and was going to mention the giveaway in the review, but I just checked the end date of the contest for it and it’s August 21. Since that’s this Friday and I’ve still got some work to do on the review, […]