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A Brief Service Announcement

If you checked in here anytime between Friday afternoon and Sunday night, you would have seen a post where Maria V. Snyder talked about how she develops fantasy maps for her books.  I have decided to remove this post; if you’d like to read it, you can see it at Seeing Night Book Reviews.  In fact, I chose to remove it specifically because you can read it elsewhere. As I explained to the publicist who contacted me about the book […]

Seven Princes by John R. Fultz The Leaning Pile of Books

It shouldn’t lean too much this week as there is only one new book to add to the pile! (For now. I am going to the bookstore to have coffee with a friend later today so that could change.) One unsolicited review copy showed up this week. Seven Princes by John R. Fultz This is a debut novel and the first volume in a new series, Books of the Shaper. Seven Princes was just released earlier this month, and the […]

Waking Beauty by Paul Witcover The Leaning Pile of Books

This is a little late this week due to the holidays and all the end of the year posts I wrote instead. I got a lot of books off my wishlist this this year and there’s also one review copy. After this, hopefully I can get back to writing reviews since I need to review a lot of books – Cold Fire by Kate Elliott, The Whitefire Crossing by Courtney Schafer, The Exiled Queen by Cinda Williams Chima, Heroes Adfrift […]

Miserere Winner

With this busy week, I realized I never let you all know that a winner had been selected for the copy of Miserere. By the time I let you know, the winner has given me their address, but I just like to give everyone a heads up so you don’t wonder about what happened with the contest. The winner is: Kevin from North Carolina, US Congratulations and I hope you enjoy the book! For everyone else, there is still a […]

Favorite Books of 2011

It’s that time of year again – time to reflect on favorites of 2011. I always have a terrible time with this because it’s so hard to pick books with all their different strengths and weaknesses, and this year I had a really terrible time because there were 12 books I wanted to stuff into the top 10. That’s with books divided into a top 10 published in 2011 and a top 5 of older books, so I’d say I […]