Archive for January, 2010
Kage Baker
We lost Kage Baker today. She fought uterine cancer very privately but then, earlier in January, her sister and caregiver, Kathleen, let the public know that she was ill and that the cancer had spread to her brain. Treatment was aggressive but the cancer was more so. The world of speculative fiction has lost someone [...]
January 31, 2010
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Book Review: Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris
Grave Secret Charlaine Harris Berkley, 2009 ISBN 0425230155 Hardcover Harper Connelly and Tolliver Lang are going back home to Texas to salve a rich rancher’s curiosity. Harper is to read Rich Joyce’s remains to tell his granddaughter how he really died. What she discovers is nothing the family actually wanted to know. Someone Rich knew [...]
January 30, 2010
Tags: Berkley, dark fantasy, mystery Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
Book Review: Broken Places by Sandra Parshall
Broken Places Sandra Parshall Poisoned Pen Press, February 2010 ISBN 1590586530 Hardcover (ARC)–Also Available in Trade Paperback When I began this book, I thought that I had remembered that I had read both previous Dr. Rachel Goddard books. I was wrong and I believe it influenced my reading of this book. I will have to [...]
January 29, 2010
Tags: mystery, Poisoned Pen Press, suspense, veterinarian Posted in: Full Reviews 3 Comments
#Snowpocalypse in #RVA
We’re supposed to get snow this weekend, most likely a really big one, maybe as much as 10 or 12 inches. It’s time to panic. OK, I hear sniggering from up there in Minnesota and North Dakota and over there in Michigan. Stop that—anybody who chooses to live where you get 4 feet at a [...]
January 28, 2010
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The Fashionable Hamilton
A frequent—and always a favorite—visitor at the shop was Ellen Byerrum, author of the delightful Crime of Fashion Mysteries, and Hamilton obviously found her books to be great pillows.  Ellen is one of those rare authors who manage to hit all venues for her mystery world including books, plays, TV movies and even a video [...]
January 27, 2010
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Film in the Literary Sense
Author of seven Margot O’Banion & Max Skull mysteries, Kit Sloane’s offbeat stories chronicle the intricacies of Hollywood filmmaking from the point of view of her protagonist, feature film editor Margot O’Banion and her significant other, director Max Skull. She was the first fiction editor of Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine from 1996-1998. A longtime member [...]
January 26, 2010
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Book Review: Terratorva by Laura Rotter
Terratorva Laura Rotter AuthorHouse, September 2009 ISBN 9781449030926 Trade Paperback Three 12-year-old children, confined indoors because it’s a rainy day, discover that Dan’s cat, Wix, can talk. Wix is a Rimor, sent from a world called Terratorva to explore other worlds in search of help. Terratorva is suffering from attacks of an evil race of [...]
January 25, 2010
Tags: AuthorHouse, children's, fantasy Posted in: Full Reviews, My Reviews No Comments
Book Review: The Perfect Couple by Brenda Novak
The Perfect Couple Brenda Novak Mira Books ISBN 0778326675 Mass Market Tiffany’s got simple instructions from her husband, Colin. Dump ‘Rover’s’ body. When she hears sounds and screaming from the trunk, she realizes the boy is alive. A frantic call to Colin and he tells her to kill the kid and dump him. Unfortunately for [...]
January 24, 2010
Tags: domestic violence, Mira, romantic suspense Posted in: Full Reviews One Comment
Ailing Cons
Last Saturday, Annie & I went down to Williamsburg on a day trip to MarsCon. We couldn’t get in the dealers room as a vendor this time but we wanted to support the con and do a little networking so we headed on down the road (an arduous journey, donchaknow, all of about an hour) [...]
January 22, 2010
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Book Review: Elegy Beach by Steven R. Boyett
Elegy Beach Steven R. Boyett Ace Books ISBN 0441017959 Hardcover Thirty years ago, at 4:30 PM all over the world everything changed. Technology stopped working and magic began. Creatures like unicorns, centaurs, and werewolves walked the world. And the old cities fell apart as looters ‘libbed’ what they needed to survive from business establishments and [...]
January 21, 2010
Tags: Ace, dark fantasy, post-apocalyptic, supernatural creatures, wizard Posted in: Full Reviews No Comments
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