I didn’t buy any books this week. Which doesn’t mean I didn’t buy ANYTHING, just not books. The season premieres for TV are staggering out of the gate, so I finally have new episodes of NCIS, NCIS:LA (and the amazingly fun NCIS: New Orleans) to watch.) One of the best things about streaming TV shows […]
More important than anything on my list, today is the last day of Banned Books Week for 2014. Banned Books Week celebrates the Freedom to Read. It can definitely be said that the Freedom of the Press that is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution means much less if people do not have the right to […]
I got stuff this week. Let me be slightly more specific…I got a couple of books that I’ve been waiting for; Dreaming Spies by Laurie R. King and Duck Duck Ghost by Rhys Ford. The wonderful thing about series is that you get to know the characters and setting. The cloud around that silver lining […]
I don’t know why it makes me feel better when I get to the end of the week and only have a short stack; I already have so many books to read that I probably won’t finish in my lifetime. Hello, my name is Marlene and I’m a biblioholic. Speaking of things I’m looking forward […]
So, I didn’t actually purchase the Humble Bookperk Bundle from Amazon, but Humble Bundle uses Amazon Payments, so it sort of counts. The current Humble Bundle includes a LOT of science fiction/fantasy/paranormal titles. So even though I already have copies of a few things in print, like American Gods and The Curse of Chalion, I […]
My only excuse this week is that Tule Publishing seems to have offered up their entire catalog on NetGalley this week. I simply couldn’t resist. For Review: A Fair to Remember (Summer Fair #5) by Barbara Ankrum After the Rain (River Bend #4) by Lilian Darcy Close to Her Heart (Carrigans of the Circle C #2) […]
After I read The Hexed this week, I realized how much I’d been missing by not getting into Graham’s Krewe of Hunters series. So I started picking them up everywhere. I think the series is going to be my next binge-reading. The Hexed was just so much chilling fun! Not that I didn’t pick up […]
I went overboard this week. These all look like incredible fun, but obviously I went a bit crazy at NetGalley and Edelweiss. The really scary thing is that I used to pile books up just like this when they were print, too. I don’t think it’s possible for me to look at a list or […]
This is pretty much the last two weeks. Lots of interesting stuff. I’m feeding my Sherlock Holmes addiction with not just one but two anthologies, and I bought the Brenda Cooper books just for the covers. (I have the cover of The Diamond Deep on the Detcon t-shirt). Speaking of Detcon, I bought (or rather […]
Galen here, sneaking in and taking over Marlene’s blog today while she sleeps in (cue a quiet “mwa-ha-ha”). We’ve been in Detroit since Wednesday to attend Detcon1, the North American Science Fiction Convention. We made sure this time to leave room in our luggage to take books and other stuff back home. Here’s what we […]