If this is a return visit, please reload to see latest additions. Recently read This has been (yes) a slow reading year for me, so far, but that'll no doubt change. Of course there are some offerings over on my Romance section, but as for the literature usual housed here, it's been slow. For now, enjoy the blurbs we have for you. June Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares Four friends spend their first summer alone (one off to Greece, one off to California, one to South Carolina and the fourth home without her three friends), but a pair of snug-fitting jeans keep them close, until they can reunite and share the stories of their incredible summer. Very cute, but also, very sad... May: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate by Michael Moorcock The third in the Elric series (second, if you read them before the publication of Fortress of the Pearl) wherein Elric boards a ship bound for strange lands, with a strange crew of men who claim to have intimate knowledge of Elric and his past lives--and his future fate. Awesome, as all his works are. :) Full review can be found elsewhere here, and at my Examiner pages. April Angel Fire, by Lisa Miscione (Unger) This one is a mystery concerning the strange disappearance of a young woman, and a married couple; disappearances which have newcomer to Angel Fire New Mexico, a True Crime author, Lydia Strong, investigating the disappearances, as well as daring to closely examine her own mother's murder, and her personal relationship with the FBI agent that helped catch her mother's murder. Again, the full review is at my Examiner pages Touch of Darkness by Karen Chance The story of a very human Vampire's assistant just trying to keep her head out of a vampire mobster's noose. Full review over at my Examiner pages. The Difference Engine. by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Steampunk novel concerning a pre-computer age, pseudo-Victorian computer, and the information housed on a set of punch cards. Full review is up, now, here--and at my Examiner pages. March Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir A new(ish) very thorough biography of this famous, and quite legendary, Medieval queen. Suceeds in giving a fuller picture of Eleanor, while at the same time debunking some of the traditional myths about her. As biographies go, a very well-written, interesting offering of the queen, and her Plantangenet offspring, as well, and I enjoyed it very much. More to come... site map |