Tag: 2010 book log
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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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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…
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Book Log #64: The Last Camel Died at Noon, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars You really need to point at Book 6 of the Amelia Peabodies, The Last Camel Died at Noon, as one of the pivotal books of the series–because it’s here that arguably the most important character in the entire cast (aside from, of course, the Emersons themselves) is introduced. The…
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Book Log #63: The Deeds of the Disturber, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars In a series that’s famous for being primarily set in Egypt, The Deeds of the Disturber, Book 5 of the Amelia Peabodies, is quite distinctive in that it’s set in England during the off-season, when the Emerson family is between digs. It also has the good fortune of being…
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Book Log #62: Lion in the Valley, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you pick and choose only a selection of the Amelia Peabody books to read, one of your choices must indisputably be Lion in the Valley, book 4 of the series. This introduces one of the most critical recurring characters to show up all throughout the books: as Amelia…
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Book Log #61: Disturbed By Her Song, by Tanith Lee
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was given Disturbed by Her Song as a review copy from Lethe Press, and I’ve got to say, this was one of the most unusual things I’ve read in a while. It’s a collection of short stories written by Tanith Lee, but under the conceit that two of…
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Book Log #60: The Mummy Case, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars Once you get into Book 3 of the Amelia Peabody series, The Mummy Case, you start picking up steam for the long haul of the bulk of all these books. Hands down, the best aspect of it is that Amelia and Emerson’s young son Ramses joins them for the…
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Book Log #59: The Curse of the Pharoahs, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 4 of 5 stars After the awesomeness that is Crocodile on the Sandbank, the mighty opening round of the Amelia Peabody series, a reader might wonder how Elizabeth Peters could possibly have packed more awesome into these books. The answer: by the introduction of Amelia and Emerson’s son, the “catastrophically precocious” Walter Peabody…
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Book Log #58: Crocodile on the Sandbank, by Elizabeth Peters
My rating: 5 of 5 stars One of my all-time favorite authors is Elizabeth Peters, a.k.a. Barbara Michaels–and of her many, many works, my all-time favorite hands down is the Amelia Peabody series. Which starts off with a mighty roar in Crocodile on the Sandbank, a book I can go back to again and again.…