I feel like I'm reading more slowly these days. A combination of cross-stitch and preoccupation, I think. That said 21. Mean Streets by Jim Butcher, Simon R Green, Kat Richardson and Thomas Sniegoski. Four novellas about detectives in urban fantasy settings. The Butcher was of a piece, and enjoyable...

Book 2 of Mark Henry's Amanda Feral series certainly doesn't lose a bit of its snark. This time around she's on a road trip with her zombie pal Wendy and their gay vampire sidekick Gil, heading (unwillingly) to visit her dying mother. Only there's a pissed-off client of Gil's new celebrity vamping s...

My First Kindle Book! If you follow me on Twitter or read the Twitter updates on the right hand side of this blog you know that I got a Kindle ebook reader for Christmas and it was just delivered. The Kindle allows you to download book samples to help you decide whether to buy a book. As soon as I g...

(14) Chinese for Dummies by Dr. Wendy Abraham Start:2/26/09 (13) Thin is the new Happy, a memoir by Valerie Frankel Start:2/28/09 (12) Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card Start: 2/26/09 (11) Too Cool to be Forgotten by Alex Robinson Start:2/24/09 Finish:2/24/09 (10) Women of the Beat Generation: The Write...

I just finished reading Founding Mother - The Women who Raised our Nation by Cokie Roberts.Founding Mothers gives a totally different perspective on the revolutionary era and the women who were a part of it. Here are a few tantalizing tidbits from Founding Mothers. Eliza Lucas Pinckney was the mothe...

Here is my initial fangirly picoreview of this book: WAUGH! NOOOO! *sniffle* Aheh. More than that I cannot say for fear of divulging spoilers. Let me say instead that as I have quite enjoyed the first two books of the Georgina Kincaid series, the events at the tail end of Book 3 are an emotional suc...

The National Weather Service predicted "rain and snow" last night, with no measurable accumulation. We woke up to an inch or so of snow. But I love the snow and it was melting already and Brian's boss won't let him work from home unless he plans it a zillion months in advance, so we went in to work ...

Make no bones about it: it's tough to do a vampire novel these days. The urban fantasy genre is overflowing with vampires with consciences, who get by on animal blood or visits to the butcher. Or who are old enough that they don't really need more than a few mouthfuls of blood to survive. Or who are...

My reaction to Accelerando can be summed up thus: What the hell did I just read? This is not to say that I think this is a bad book. On the contrary, there's a lot of hard SF goodness to be found it these pages, from space elevators to computronium, wormhole traversals to Matrioshka brains. All of t...

(10) Women of the Beat Generation: The Writers, Artists, and Muses at the Heart of a Revolution by Brenda Knight Start: 2/6/09 (9) The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith Start: 2/5/09 (8) Conversations with the Fat Girl by Liza Palmer Start:1/29/09 Finish:1/30/09 Thoughts:Refres...