Category: Books

  • Amelia Peabody audiobooks: Relevant to My Interests

    Amelia Peabody audiobooks: Relevant to My Interests

    I shall now send out props to as well as , both of whom highly recommended the audiobook editions of the Amelia Peabody novels! Having now listened to the audio of Book 1, I can say, oh my yes, Ms. Barbara Rosenblat does a delightful job. Her voice and accent are perfect for Amelia, very…

  • More books!

    More books!

    Picked up in electronic form: Fires of Nuala, by (Katharine Eliska Kimbriel), released at Book View Cafe. This is one of her old SF novels. Naked Heat, by Richard Castle (hee hee hee). This is the second of the in-universe mystery novels tying in with the Castle TV show. Hidden Steel, by Doranna Durgin. This…

  • This weekend’s book report

    This weekend’s book report

    From Carina Press: The Spurned Viscountess, by Shelley Munro. Gothic/historical romance. This one’s involving a woman who’s a healer and a psychic and who is roped into the obligatory marriage with the handsome viscount who only realizes after they’re married that hey, he really rather likes her. Also, there are the obligatory Mysterious Accidents! This…

  • Nook not full yet, time for MORE EBOOKS

    Nook not full yet, time for MORE EBOOKS

    Just because I could, here are the latest ebooks I’ve picked up! From Barnes and Noble: A Feral Darkness, by Doranna Durgin. Yes, the same book I read earlier this year! She’s finally released it in ebook form in various places, so if you are interested in reading it and can’t find a print copy,…

  • Last round (of B&N freebies)

    Last round (of B&N freebies)

    Okay, this should be the last round of freebie ebooks from B&N, I think. They’re throwing out the big guns for this last drop! The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I, by Arthur Conan Doyle The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (note: this version is abridged) The Iliad, by Homer The Odyssey, by Homer…

  • One more book update

    One more book update

    I’m not sure yet if this is the last round of B&N freebies; the promotion was supposed to run up through the 14th, so I’m thinking there’ll be at least one more round before they’re done. This one I’m particularly happy about though since it includes King Solomon’s Mines, a novel that’s specifically called out…

  • Book update!

    Book update!

    I came to the decision that since I’d violated my New Books Hiatus by buying that antho (although I still excuse myself for that on the grounds of Special Circumstances, and also, supporting ), I am therefore delaying buying new books at least for a few more days even though the Hiatus is technically over!…

  • Okay yeah fine hiatus didn’t last the month

    Okay yeah fine hiatus didn’t last the month

    It will probably surprise none of you that I did not actually make it to the end of this month without buying a brand new book. However, in my own defense, I will add that the book in question was the anthology Close Encounters of the Urban Kind, edited by , the lady who was…

  • Yet more freebie ebooks

    Yet more freebie ebooks

    The latest drop of free classics from B&N, plus one extra freebie I picked up from them for the heck of it: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by, well, Emily Dickinson! Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Writings About New York, by Stephen Crane Sentimental Education, by Gustave Flaubert The Life of…

  • What’s this? Oh yes, more books!

    What’s this? Oh yes, more books!

    This is yet another round of freebies downloaded from Barnes and Noble. Most of these are the latest round of classics available, but the Kowal story I happened to find while doing a search to see if her new novel was available on the ebook store yet. “First Flight”, a short story by Mary Robinette…