The March Blogger Book Club selection has been chosen by Joe of Adventures in Reading. The book club will be held from March 9 – 15 and the book is The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. I’ve been wanting to read a book by this author for a while so I plan to get the book and read it before that week. Hopefully I’ll have better luck with that one than I did Schismatrix Plus (which I tried […]

Miles, Mystery, and Mayhemby Lois McMaster Bujold576pp (Paperback)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 3.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.16/5Goodreads Rating: 4.13/5 Miles, Mystery & Mayhem contains three stories in the Miles Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold: the novel Cetaganda, the novel Ethan of Athos, and the novella Labyrinth (originally published in Borders of Infinity). It also has a 4 page afterward written by Bujold. Chronologically, this omnibus comes after the Young Miles collection in this space opera series, although it can be read as […]

The Healthy Deadby Steven Erikson128pp (Hardcover)My Rating: 8/10Amazon Rating: 4.5/5LibraryThing Rating: 4.12/5Goodreads Rating: 4.15/5 The Healthy Dead by Steven Erikson is a novella taking place in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. This epic fantasy series currently contains 8 books and is supposed to end up 10 volumes long (although there are supposed to be more books written in the world after that). There are other novels related to the series written by Ian Cameron Esslemont, […]

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We got a new digital camera and my review writing is going really slowly, so here are some of pictures of recent book acquisitions (for those who like that sort of thing). These are some of the books I got for Christmas. On the left is The Charmed Sphere, the first book in Catherine Asaro’s fantasy series, Misted Cliffs. I got this one from a friend who is also a big fan of Asaro’s Skolian saga. We’ve both been wondering […]

Now that the holidays are over, I’m hoping to get caught up on some of these reviews I need to write. December was a slow reading month since I was pretty busy with the holidays and getting a few things taken care of by the end of the year, but I did finish a couple of books at the end of the month and have a couple of books read in November to review as well. I’m now reading the […]