Posts Tagged ‘books’
I can say with confidence at this point that Jacqueline Carey is one of my favorite authors. It’s the detail, I think. It gets me every time. The characters don’t hurt, either. This is the second book featuring Moirinn, who’s half D’Angeline and half Alban (I’d spell the tribe, but that would require me to […]
Filed under: cannonball read | Leave a Comment
Tags: books, cannonball read 2.0, jacqueline carey, kushiel, moirinn, naamah's curse, reading, review
Ugh. So I finally sat down at the end of last week and read Breaking Dawn. I don’t even have the energy to truly review it. You know what it’s about; Bella Swan and her perfect love and her perfect transition to vampirehood and her perfectly perfect child with the most terrible name ever given […]
Filed under: cannonball read | 2 Comments
Tags: books, breaking dawn, cannonball read 2.0, reading, review, stephanie meyer, twilight
I purchased this book when I was in California in February. It was one of those moments of kismet; I spotted it on the shelf, saw the title and laughed out loud. How could I not buy a book with a title like “Queen Victoria, Demon Hunter“? Seriously? I snatched it up faster than you […]
Filed under: cannonball read | Leave a Comment
Tags: a.e. moorat, book review, books, cannonball read, cannonball read 2.0, demons, queen victoria, queen victoria demon hunter, reading, silly, zombies
book 7: Ilium, by Dan Simmons
Tuesday evening I finished Ilium, by Dan Simmons. This book has been languishing in one of my piles of “to be read” books for quite some time, but after I finished the Tim Powers, I wanted to transition to something totally different, but equally dense and full of plot and character. Ilium did not disappoint. […]
Filed under: cannonball read | 2 Comments
Tags: book review, books, cannonball read, cannonball read 2.0, dan simmons, iliad, ilium, reading, review
She’s got me like nobody
OK, enough blather about the wedding. It was nice, on to other things. I’m woefully behind on my reading. On the other hand, I’m reading something like four books right now. I never used to do that. There’s the one that I both have a terrible time putting down and sometimes can’t quite bring myself […]
Filed under: cannonball read | 3 Comments
Tags: books, books i'm reading, cannonball read 2.0, Emilie Autumn, not a review, reading, scott lynch, the asylum for wayward victorian girls, the stress of her regard, tim powers, world war z
excuses, excuses
So, I totally finished book… uh, five? of my pathetic attempt at CBR II: I AM NOT GIVING UP DAMMIT last night. And I meant to write up a nice review for it, because I think there are people out there who would enjoy the same things as I did about this book and would […]
Filed under: other | Leave a Comment
Tags: books, cop-out, miscellaneous, not a review
I’ll admit I’ve been putting off writing this review since I finished the book last week. We’re talking about Defending Angels here, the second in a new series by Mary Stanton. I read the first one as part of Cannonball the First, I think. Maybe. I don’t know. I read it, anyway, and enjoyed it […]
Filed under: cannonball read | Leave a Comment
Tags: book review, books, cannonball read, cannonball read 2.0, defending angels, reading
I ended up skipping the second book in this trilogy. I am not sure why. So I just read the last couple of chapters so I could remind myself of what happened and then moved on to this book. Kushiel’s Mercy starts out with the country of Terre D’Ange in turmoil—Imri and the princess whose […]
Filed under: cannonball read | Leave a Comment
Tags: book 3, book review, books, cannonball read, jacqueline carey, kushiel's legacy, kushiel's mercy
If you’re at all familiar with the steampunk genre, then you already know how awesome it is. And if you’re not, well, let me attempt to explain it in a few sentences. Take the Victorian era, add in the very beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, and jack everything up a few notches. Steampunk most often […]
Filed under: other | Leave a Comment
Tags: awesome, book 28, books, cannonball read, read this book, reading, steampunk, stephen hunt, the court of the air
books are the best thing ever.
I still remember childhood trips to the local bookstore. It was a great little place that has since moved up to Hunt Valley and isn’t so little anymore. They were both local and independent, so it’s pretty amazing that they survived the influx of Barnes&Noble and the advent of Amazon. I think they probably did […]
Filed under: other | 2 Comments
Tags: books, bookstore, details, greetings & readings, immersion, locke lamora, reading, sci-fi and fantasy, the court of the air, the lies of locke lamora, world-building is my favorite thing
lizzie borden took her axe.... 