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 […]

2008 has come to a close and it was a great year for reading since I read a great many more really good memorable books than I did in 2007. My only reading goal for the year was to read 50 books and I ended up reading 54, which is a lot more than 2007 (which was something like 36). That’s probably at least partially because I discovered I really liked space opera this year and read a lot of […]

It’s a few hours early (at least in my part of the world) but I just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year! Thanks for stopping by and I hope everyone has a wonderful 2009! Tomorrow I plan to put up an end of the year recap on books of 2008 and what to look forward to in 2009 (I’ve been waiting just in case I finished a really great book that wowed me by the end of the […]

Shades of Darkby Linnea Sinclair448pp (Paperback)My Rating: 9/10Amazon Rating: 4/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.2/5Goodreads Rating: 4.08/5 Shades of Dark is the sequel to Gabriel’s Ghost and the second book in Linnea Sinclair’s Dock 5 Universe series. While Shades of Dark picks up where the first book left off and focuses on the same main characters, the third book Hope’s Folly (to be released in February 2009) is about Philip Guthrie, a secondary character in the series so far. Shades of Dark should […]