Book Review: Blindsight

I read my first Nolan book over a year ago, and had thought to delve deeper into her Mirus world quite a bit sooner… As they say, life got in the way. Last night, I was overnighting in a hotel, avoiding the blizzard conditions outside, awaiting the second day of a work-mandated training. Since I Book Review: Blindsight

Book Review: Steel’s Edge

Ilona Andrews is another one of my favorite urban fantasy authors. This husband-wife writing team caught me in their snare when I read Magic Bites shortly after its original release. Since then, I’ve watched for all their new releases, and haven’t yet been disappointed. I took advantage of my Amazon Prime status, and received this Book Review: Steel’s Edge

Book Review: Fair Game

I knew after I read the first Mercy Thompson book that I was going to be a Patricia Briggs fan; she writes interesting, complex, female protagonists and sets her stories in livable worlds. I had been waiting and waiting for this latest installment of the Alpha and Omega series, since I didn’t want to break Book Review: Fair Game

Book Review: Almost Perfect

On a recent day of malingering, while, for once, I didn’t have any urgent commitments, I gave in to my need for a bit of escapist brain candy. Denise Domning has offered her book as a freebie on Amazon for a while, and since it’s described as a Regency romance, I was intrigued enough to Book Review: Almost Perfect

Book Review: The Shadow of the Lion

My Twitter friend @lianabrooks had a very specific request for a Friday reads recommendation yesterday for something “high fantasy set in Venice with pirates and witches.” It reminded me of the epic fantasy Mercedes Lackey co-authored with Eric Flint and Dave Freer. She asked me if it was good, and since Twitter just isn’t the Book Review: The Shadow of the Lion

Book Review: Friday

For a year or two in High School, I was on a Heinlein kick. He was the “big deal” author in one of the genres I enjoy reading, so it seemed important to know what he had to say. I remember reading the inside cover blurb on Friday and being intrigued: Friday is a secret Book Review: Friday

Book and Movie Review: Contact

This is one of the very few books I’ve read, where I saw the movie first, and was moved to read the source material. In fact, it was the first Sagan book I had read–something about reading male scifi authors in High School had turned me off of them and their inclination to make paper Book and Movie Review: Contact

Book Review: The Year of the Lucy

I’ve been an unabashed Anne McCaffrey fan since I read Dragonflight in 9th grade. I plowed through all the remaining books about Pern as soon as they came out, and wore out the binding on a few of them, I read them so often. It wasn’t until I was halfway through college, though, that I Book Review: The Year of the Lucy