Mrs S at Blue Archipelago is hosting a new reading challenge I just couldn’t resist joining. It’s called the July Book Blowout and the goal is to read as many books as you can during the month of July.
Since I’m going to be working full-time this month, I won’t set my goal very [...]

Posted on July 2nd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Book Blowout, General booktalk | 3 Comments »

A Game of Thrones
by George RR Martin

For the Here Be Dragons and First in a Series reading challenges.
English
837 pages
Bantam Books
ISBN: 987-0-553-57340-4
First line: “We should start back,” Gared urged them as the woods began to grow dark around them.
Back cover blurb:
In a land where summer can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. [...]

Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: C, English, Fantasy, First in a Series, Here Be Dragons | No Comments »

The Uncommon Reader
by Alan Bennett

English
121 pages
Faber and Faber
ISBN: 978-1-84668-133-2
First line: At Windsor it was the evening of the state banquet and as the president of France took his place beside Her Majesty, the royal family formed up behind and the procession slowly moved off and through into the Waterloo Chamber.
Back cover blurb:
Led by her [...]

Posted on June 29th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, English, Fiction | 3 Comments »

I’m way behind on my reviews and I think at this point it’s probably just easier to give up and face that I won’t get around to writing about all the books I’ve read this month. At least I haven’t read very much this week—only about half a book—as I’ve simply not had time. I [...]

Posted on June 27th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Memes | 2 Comments »

A Strong and Sudden Thaw
by RW Day

For the Here Be Dragons reading challenge.
English
333 pages
Iris Print
ISBN: 978-0-9787531-1-5
First line: There’s an old scenic view about halfway up the mountain, alongside where the old highway runs.
Back cover blurb:
Dragons in Virginia?
Nearly a hundred years after the Ice changed the face of our world, the people of Moline work [...]

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, English, GLBT interest, Here Be Dragons, Romance, Science Fiction | 2 Comments »

Throne of Jade
by Naomi Novik

For the Here Be Dragons reading challenge.
English
399 pages
Del Rey
ISBN: 978-0-345-48129-0
First line: The day was unseasonably warm for November, but in some misguided deference to the Chinese embassy, the fire in the Admirality boardroom had been heaped excessively high, and Laurence was standing directly before it.
Back cover blurb:
When Britain intercepted a French [...]

Posted on June 22nd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, B, English, Fantasy, Here Be Dragons, Historical | No Comments »

I have been tagged for two memes.
The first one is from T Y and seems to be about books in general.
*A book that made you laugh: Apocalypso by Robert Rankin. The Most Amazing Man Who Ever Lived by same.
*A book that made you cry: Fool’s Fate by Robin Hobb. About three quarters of the way [...]

Posted on June 20th, 2008 by Love
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You may, if you’ve read this blog a while, remember that I read Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight books a few months back. I found them quite okay, almost addictive, though I had a few problems with certain things (and I don’t actually quite understand why I liked them, but that’s another matter), and this I [...]

Posted on June 11th, 2008 by Love
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Annika Larsdotter: barnamörderska
by Inger Lövkrona

For the Back to History and To Be Read reading challenges.
Swedish
255 pages
Historiska Media
ISBN: 91-88930-64-5
First line: Boston — Min vän slänger tidningsartikeln på skrivbordet med en kort kommentar: “Ja, här har du en till.”
Back cover blurb:
Annika Larsdotter avrättades 1765, 18 år gammal. Hon hade då erkänt dråp på sitt nyfödda barn [...]

Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Back to History, C, History, Swedish, To Be Read, True crime | No Comments »

Doctor Who: The Resurrection Casket
by Justin Richards

English
254 pages
BBC Books
ISBN: 0-563-48642-2
First line: Death was hiding in Kaspar’s pocket.
Back cover blurb:
Starfall — a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work. And that includes the TARDIS.
The pioneers who used to be drawn by the hope [...]

Posted on June 8th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Adventure, B, English, Science Fiction | No Comments »