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Review: Chicken Feet and Comfort Reading
No, no, I haven’t been cooking with chicken feet. Yes, I know it’s a thing. No, I really don’t plan to try it, although at least I know to take the chicken toenails off before serving. I’m talking about When Chicken Feet Cross the Highway by Alma Boykin. I’m always a sucker for Baba Yaga,…
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Eat This While You Read That: Michael Hooten
Both the First Reader and I have enjoyed Michael Hooten‘s Cricket series very much, finding them to be high fantasy without over-reliance on tropes and thus refreshing to read. His characters are lively, so it came as no surprise to find a note appended to the recipe he sent me. The book we recommend for…
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An Unusual Review: Solutrean Atlantis
As is my normal custom, I purchased this book with the intention of reading for review. I acquired Solutrean Atlantis: Chapters 1-8: Sample Chapters from Amazon, an estimated 77 pages for the sum of $2.99. I will admit freely that I acquired a copy of the book knowing that there were problems, and it was and…
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Review: Trial by Fire
I received a copy of this book in an unusual way: Chuck Gannon gave it to my First Reader and I as a wedding gift. He was apologetic about it, saying that he just didn’t have anything else with him to give us. But it is, I want him to know, the perfect symbolic gift…
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Eat This While You Read That: Michael Z Williamson
This week’s ETWYRT is a little different. It was, for one thing, a meal that had me doing much more contemplation than usual before I embarked on it. When I asked MadMike for a dish, I knew he was busy and wouldn’t send a recipe, except… he did. And an unspoken challenge. He knows me…
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On the Road Again
I’m traveling this weekend. Will probably have no internet, and given past experience, might not have phone, either. How… refreshing. In the meantime, I’m up at the Mad Genius Club today with a guest post from a librarian known as the Overgrown Hobbit. Ever wanted to know how to market a book to a large…
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Review: Death’s Doors
I’ve enjoyed Lars Walker’s books for years, and this latest is no exception. This isn’t, I should say at the beginning, a light-hearted fun read. It is Human Wave, and it will make you think, and perhaps flinch a little. Biting social satire with a Christian bent, or perhaps Norse – although it is not…
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Eat This While You Read That: David Weber
While at LibertyCon this summer I had the opportunity to meet and chat with David Weber for a bit. He’s a lovely man, devoted to his family, and a talented author who has more titles to his name than I ever dream of. I’ve enjoyed his work since I found Baen’s Bar, so this was…
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Review: A Lake Most Deep
As I started to read this, I commented that it is one of the most readable High Fantasy novels I have come across in quite some time. I revised that opinion very shortly thereafter. I’m talking about Rob Howell’s A Lake Most Deep, which suffers from an odd cover, and the mention by another reviewer…
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Audiobooks and the Art of Reading Aloud
The First Reader and I were talking the other day about audiobooks. I know I’ve been asked more than a few times about having the Noir series made into audiobooks, and frankly the only thing stopping me is time. I had started to look into it about a year ago, and stopped to deal with…
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Eat This While you Read That: Larry Correia
I’d first asked Larry Correia if he’d be willing to take part in this series of foodie book blogs when I saw him at LTUE this spring, and his eyes lit up. “I love food!” he told me, and then he had to hurry off to another panel. I was busy too – that is…
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We Have Winners!
First of all, thank you to everyone who commented or shared as I worked on this contest. It was a bit spur-of-the-moment, the next one I will plan out more. However! there were more than one hundred entries, which was pretty amazing. I’m tickled pink at the responses. So here’s what I did. I kept…