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Books to Avoid: Cranky Book Reviews
I must confess, I have been a somewhat cranky reader recently. Here’s the thing: I hear complaints about the quality of books available in KU all the time. Having my own in that pool makes me wince a little when I see those criticisms. But… It’s all true. You know what else is true?…
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Review: Hillbilly Elegy
My first comment on this book is about the price. For a book whose purported audience is the working and welfare poor from Appalachia, the price set at 15.99 for ebook is a slap in the face. I don’t usually review a book on price, but in this rare case, it matters. JD Vance’s treatise,…
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Bibliophilia
We have been discussing what to do with books for some time. We have less than I once owned, and more than he had when I moved into his house. Which means it is more than we want to move (again) but less than we’d like to have at our fingertips if we’re researching something. …
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Repost: Chaplain’s War
To my dismay, I discovered when a reader brought it to my attention that this was one of the posts that fell into the ‘blog hole’ when I switched browsers. It’s definitely a book worth reading, so again, I commend it to your attention… I have been working on this book since… longer than I…
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Book Review: Demon of the Waters
If you read my post over at Mad Genius this morning, you’ll note that I finished my in-paper nightstand book last night. I’ve been working on it for an embarassingly long time, since I usually read ebooks before bed. This one has been my soaky-bath book. Demon of the Waters is the ‘true story of…
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Book Reviews: Big Burn and River War
I’ve been reading non-fiction lately, rather than fiction. Some of it has been for research, other books have simply been because I ran across them and they sounded interesting. Which is why I read The Big Burn. Somewhat grandiosely subtitled “Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America,” the book is the story of the…
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New Arrival
It’s finally here. Two years after I’d planned, but it’s been an eventful two years! Dorothy Grant was gracious enough to write a blurb for me… she’s the queen of blurbage! Tanager’s Fledglings When the starship’s captain died midway through a run with a cargo of exotic animals, the owner gave first mate Jem one…
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Cover Reveal!
I’ve been hard at work on the cover for the Tanager’s Fledglings, and I’m finally getting excited for this book. I’ve got three cover versions, below, that are similar. Now, I just have to pick one…
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Review: The Shaman’s Coat
I rarely review one of my research books, in no small part because I don’t always read the whole book. This one was an exception to that, and an exceptional read to boot. I picked up The Shaman’s Coat, written by Anna Reid, with some trepidation. I am planning on setting the next book in…
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Happy Saturday!
It’s a happy day. Yes, I woke up with bad dreams, but that was just blog fodder for the Mad Genius Club. If you’ve ever wondered about gothic novels, you may want to wander over there for a read of my thoughts on them. What makes it a happy day is seeing this! Scaling…
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Book Review: Honor of the Legion
Good morning, gentle readers. Today I am guesting over at Sarah Hoyt’s blog, talking about the meanings of words and one in particular. While I am there, one of my fans and friends, Doug Irvin, is here. He agreed to read and review a couple of books for me and this is the first of…
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Quitting Time
This is a follow-up to a post I wrote last week, at the Mad Genius Club. In it, I talked about how I’d learned to quit books. It’s not that I’m quitting reading, oh, no. What I did was learn how to put a bad book down instead of letting it suck part of my…