Posts made in November, 2009

It’s Monday, What Are You Reading is a weekly group blog sponsored by J. Kaye’s Book Blog to add your blog to the list, click here. With the holiday this week, I ended up spending more time traveling and visiting with family, and less time reading, but I did manage to make it through one book. The Order of Death by Hugh Fleetwood is an older book that’s been on my reading list for awhile. Right now I am in the middle of a completely engrossing science book, Adam’s Curse: A Future Without Men by Bryan Sykes. The Order of Death This 1970s novel set in New York was written by an Englishman living in Italy, which sounds like a recipe for disaster, but in fact, the book is surprisingly good, and doesn’t have that dated feel that popular...

It’s Monday, What Are You Reading is a weekly group blog sponsored by J. Kaye’s Book Blog to add your blog to the list, click here. This week I read an exciting science fiction novel, The January Dancer by Michael Flynn, a wonderful writing book by Kate Wilhelm called Storyteller and listened to the audio book version of The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares. The January Dancer I enjoyed the two previous novels by Michael Flynn that I read, Eifelheim and The Wreck of the River of Stars, so I was pretty sure that I was going to enjoy The January Dancer, as well. From page one I was captivated by this science fiction tale about a magic stone and the cast of characters that want to get their hands on it, or, at least, keep it from falling into...

I was planning on making it an early night last night, since I am still getting over the remnants of my flu, though I was hoping to do some reading or writing in bed before I finally turned in. That didn’t happen. I was getting ready for bed and had just spit the toothpaste out of my mouth when our power went out. It had actually gone out for a minute or so earlier yesterday morning. So, I wasn’t that alarmed. I patiently waited in the pitch black bathroom for the lights to come back on. They didn’t. Finally, I decided I was going to have to find a light source. I knew there was a flashlight in the kitchen drawer, but I didn’t like the idea of going down the stairs in complete darkness. So, I felt my way down the hall to my bedroom, grabbed...

. . . because we’re all so busy cleaning the house, getting our nails done, [insert something stereotypically female here]. OK, just to be clear (because it’s not always apparent on the internet), this is sarcasm. I do not believe any of the above, and hopefully you don’t either, but there are people out there who do. For proof you need only read the comments to this blog post by Moonrat over at Editorial Ass and take note of a certain anonymous commenter that got into a little debate with Maggie Stiefvater. This all began with Publisher’s Weekly posting their picks for the 10 best books of 2009. All 10 books are by male authors. The announcement of the list and it’s testosterone laden nature caused something of a stir in the...

It’s Monday, What Are You Reading is a weekly group blog sponsored by J. Kaye’s Book Blog to add your blog to the list, click here. I was side-lined by a flu at the end of last week, and as a result didn’t get quite as much reading in as I had hoped. I know that being camped out on the couch would seem to be an ideal time to get some reading in, but I find when I’m like this my brain feels too mushy for reading. The Hunger Games I did finally finish listening to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins on audiobook. Much to my surprise, I am not the last person on earth to read this book, though I am sure I must be close. The Hunger Games reminded me a lot of the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. Both are YA novels set in a dystopian future...