Tag: book recommendations

  • Postcards and Books

    Postcards and Books

    There’s another open call for the Postcard stories, as two of the Moms of the Apocalypse are at FantaSci this weekend. Remember: only 50 words, no more and no less. And include your name!  You can reach out to me at cedarlila at gmail dot com for your prompt image!  And in the department of…

  • Pushing Books

    Pushing Books

    Books by friends and fellow authors that I think my readers may also enjoy.  Firstly, is this cover not pretty? Why yes, I did make that!  Kindred, by Kelly Grayson, is a riveting read.  In the Dakota Territory, a U.S. Marshal haunted by his past works desperately to discover who is behind a weaponized smallpox…

  • Cozy Reads

    Cozy Reads

    It’s that season here in my neck of the woods. Leaves are falling and so are the temperatures. I’m inclined to dig out the fuzzy throw blankets and keep them handy for the moments where I have the actual time to curl up and read, with a mug of tea next to me.  Which got…

  • The Bookshelf, Virtually

    The Bookshelf, Virtually

    This last week or so I haven’t acquired any paper books, although I am thinking longingly of a certain big antique mall where I can lay my hands on some lovely ones. Perhaps later today. In the meantime…  I buy books for various reasons. Reading seems obvious, but I also buy books to support fellow…

  • Books, Art, Varied Diversions

    Books, Art, Varied Diversions

    I have a couple of books to commend to you all, dear readers. By some of my favorite living authors, they are fresh off the press. Smell those toasty electrons! mmmm new books…  Dave Freer’s Cloud-Castles is a space opera with his usual intense world-building based in sound science, peopled by all-too-human characters and delightfully…

  • For Your Reading Pleasure

    For Your Reading Pleasure

      And to be a little different this week, listening, too!  These are some books I have enjoyed, or that people I really like wrote, or just because I thought my readers would enjoy. It’s the day after Christmas, it’s a weekend, what better to do than put your feet up, sip cocoa, and read…

  • Saturday Book Display

    Saturday Book Display

       Letting out my inner librarian to set up a lovely shelf of new arrivals, sales, and Things You Will Like reading…  Check these out!  Make sure to review on return…  Lab Gremlins is on sale for 0.99$ through September 8    All Steven wanted was a lab job to get experience. His boss acted…

  • Saturday Book Display

    Saturday Book Display

      I was once a librarian… One of the fun things I got to do from time to time was make up a display of books. There’s two ways to get a book at the library. All right, there are more. But for the purposes of this post, and brevity: you walk in, you know…

  • Readers take Note

    Readers take Note

      It’s going to be a busy day here at the Nut House. Sounds of drilling already emanate from the closet, and the dishwasher is singing it’s song in the kitchen. So in lieu of a sensible essay type-post, you get a glimpse into my reading habits of late. Some old, some new… all of…

  • Nominate! for the Curmudgeon’s Book List

    Nominate! for the Curmudgeon’s Book List

      The First Reader is on leave from work, and has departed for his parent’s house. He will be down there, returning the favor for them raising him. However, we both anticipate long hours of quiet time, where he will have little to do besides read.  So…  I need to make a very special book…

  • OPB

    OPB

    Other People’s Books.  The marvelous thing about being an Indie is that no one (well, ok, maybe the First Reader. But only if we talk about it first) can tell me what to do. So if I want to celebrate other authors? I’m going to do it. Doesn’t matter what kind of publishing they do,…

  • The Glittery Unicorns Book List

    The Glittery Unicorns Book List

    This list was born out of a question: someone wanted to know what were books we’d recommend for the young lady in his life, to save her from sparkly vampires. I was tagged in the comments, and realized that although I have several lists for boys, I hadn’t done one specifically for girls. This still…