The Healthy Deadby Steven Erikson128pp (Hardcover)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.12/5Goodreads Rating: 4.15/5 The Healthy Dead by Steven Erikson is a novella taking place in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. This epic fantasy series currently contains 8 books and is supposed to end up 10 volumes long (although there are supposed to be more books written in the world after that). There are other novels related to the series written by Ian Cameron Esslemont, […]

We got a new digital camera and my review writing is going really slowly, so here are some of pictures of recent book acquisitions (for those who like that sort of thing). These are some of the books I got for Christmas. On the left is The Charmed Sphere, the first book in Catherine Asaro’s fantasy series, Misted Cliffs. I got this one from a friend who is also a big fan of Asaro’s Skolian saga. We’ve both been wondering […]

Now that the holidays are over, I’m hoping to get caught up on some of these reviews I need to write. December was a slow reading month since I was pretty busy with the holidays and getting a few things taken care of by the end of the year, but I did finish a couple of books at the end of the month and have a couple of books read in November to review as well. I’m now reading the […]

The Gabriel’s Ghost/Shades of Dark giveaway has come to an end and a winner has been randomly selected. The winner of Gabriel’s Ghost is: Bridget Hopper Congratulations, Bridget! I hope you love Gabriel’s Ghost as much as I did! That’s the last of the books of 2008 giveaways. It has been fun spreading some of my favorites around and I hope everyone lucky enough to win a copy enjoys their books!

Happy 2009! 2008 was a pretty good year for reading some good books and here’s hoping 2009 will be even better. There are some books coming out I can’t wait for, especially Corambis by Sarah Monette, Hope’s Folly by Linnea Sinclair, and Kings and Assassins by Lane Robins. Elizabeth Bear also has a new Edda of Burdens book (By the Mountain Bound) coming out later in the year and the next of Ann Aguirre’s Sirantha Jax series (Doubleblind) will be […]