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Full dive on the planes!
Ooh hey, there’s finally a release date for the remaining volume of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea DVDs! Season Four, Volume 2, December 21st! Just in time for Solstice! I think I shall have to do me a full, comprehensive Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea rewatch, like unto the various show…
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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…
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Housekeeping, and a Bone Walker blurb
I got tired of looking at the same theme over and over again, and after a lot of failed attempts to find a new one I liked, I finally settled today on “2010 Weaver”, a child theme of the Twenty Ten default theme that came with WordPress 3.0. The big reason I chose this theme…
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Aether Age anthology and Hadley Rille 5K contest!
I just mentioned this on my personal blog, but it’s worth mentioning here: my fellow Outer Alliance member Brandon Bell is the editor of what promises to be a fun anthology, The Aether Age: Helios. You should go over and pre-order it, not only because it sounds fun, but also because its publisher, Hadley Rille…
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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…
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Beta readers for Lament, check in?
Three of you have checked in with me, but I haven’t heard from the other five…? (Many thanks to and and for keeping me apprised of your various levels of ability to deal with the reading, I much appreciate the updates!) As an FYI to y’all reading, I’m currently in chapter 9 of the word…
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Book Log #67: Seeing a Large Cat, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars The ninth book of the Amelia Peabody series, Seeing a Large Cat, is a significant turning point in the overall saga of the Emerson family. It’s the first of the internal quartet of books that follows the arc of the love story between Ramses and Nefret, and it’s also…
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Book Log #66: The Hippopotamus Pool, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Truth be told, it’d been so long since I’d read The Hippopotamus Pool, book 8 of the Amelia Peabodies, that I’d totally forgotten what it was about–and in particular, that it introduced the critical character of David Todros, grandson of Abdullah, the Emerson family’s reis. After recently re-reading it,…
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Some potential Awesome
Courtesy of , I hear tell of a forthcoming anthology that involves the words “lesbian” and “steampunk”. I do believe I shall have to check this out, and if I can score a review ARC, I will totally be bumping it up to the top of my reading queue. More details over here! Oh, and…
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Book Log #65: The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have frequently admitted that I am a sucker for an amnesia plot, that grand old staple of television series and of romance novels–and yeah, Elizabeth Peters has one, too. That would be The Snake, the Crocodile, and the Dog, Book 7 of the Amelia Peabodies, in which Emerson…
