Bookpile: November 2010
Ninth Grade Slays, Tenth Grade Bleeds – Next two in the chronicles of Vladimir tod series. And it’s just getting better. The drama is building, the characters are deepening. Really enjoying this group of books. Enough angst and star-crossed lovership to please girl readers, tons of action and fight scenes…
Bookpile: October 2010
Larklight – I’m heavy on the kids books this month. Means of escape. And this one is pretty darned escapist. Imagine that Newton didn’t just figure out gravity, but also faster than light travel. What we end up with is a Victorian world in which England’s empire stretches not just…
Bookpile: September 2010
What happened this month? Surely I read more than this? Hmmm. Whole point of writing these is for me to keep track of what I read, so I’m failing mightily to reach my goal. Or failing mightily in reading time lately. Either way – boo. And given three of these…
Bookpile: August: 2010
Running behind – on reading and posting – thanks to things with my mom. She’s improving, BTW, but we still have a long row to hoe. Skinny Dip – Grabbed this at my mom’s when I ran out of other things to read. It was definitely a good, solid, take-to-the-pool…
Bookpile: July 2010
Short list this month due to one huge book and what’s going on with my mom. King’s Dragon – Huge, honking classic fantasy story, the first of seven in this series that is mercifully all out so no waiting for the next one. I’m beginning to wonder if my tastes…