Over in gears_and_steam, one of the members posted a steampunk/neo-victorian music compilation; I've been listening to it for a couple of days and now have a few more artists on my "hunt down their stuff and buy it" list ( Read more... )

Lots of B5 tie-ins, specifically The Passing of the Techno-Mages and the Bester trilogy.

1. The Shadow Within, Jeanne Cavelos (Anna and Morden backstory about what happened on Z'ha'dum, prequel to the Techno-Mage arc. )
   
2. Casting Shadows
   
3. Summoning Light
   
4. Invoking Darkness. A friend recommended this as not only being good tie-ins, but also being a good ( Read more... )

Forgot this one in the recent reading list (typo: rending):

1. Exit Music, Ian Rankin. There's no announced US release date for this final Rebus novel yet, so I sucked it up and ordered from Amazon.co.uk. I won't disclose the ending (although you might catch some sotto voce grumbling) but I think it was a fitting way to wrap things up.

1. The Potter's Field: The Seventeenth Chronicle of Brother Cadfael, Ellis Peters. While tilling a field recently given to the Benedictine abbey at Shrewsbury, the body of a young woman is discovered. It may be the missing wife of the previous tenant, who left his wife abruptly a year earlier to join the abbey. Or maybe not, because the younger son ( Read more... )

Warning: crankiness comes and goes this evening. If I snap at you (or have done so), apologies.

A few more to throw on the "finished books" stack:

1. One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding, Rebecca Mead. I swear, it's not actually Bridezilla day here at Chez geekchick. I think anyone considering having a big, "traditional" wedding should ( Read more... )

1. Kushiel's Justice, Jacqueline Carey. Betimes I thought I could drop the woman on her head because she just would not stop with the "betimes" in every other sentence. I refrained from throwing the book across the room in annoyance though. (The fact that it belongs to the library helped, I admit.) Honestly, I think Phèdre and Joscelin are much ( Read more... )

First, let me get this out of the way before I asplode: I'm about 260 pages into Kushiel's Justice right now, and if Ms. Carey doesn't stop using "betimes" in every other paragraph (sometimes more than once in a single four-sentence paragraph), I'm going to reenact the apology scene from "A Fish Called Wanda". Aaaaaaagh!

1. Blood Rites, Jim ( Read more... )

1. The Harlequin, Laurell Hamilton. Hey, finally an installment in one of her ongoing series (Anita Blake, in this case) that isn't just an extended sex scene with the barest possible amount of plot advancement, if any! Points for that, but I'm still not rescinding my decision to only pick these up from the library until they come out in mass- ( Read more... )

The "completed books" number is adding up at a much more satisfactory rate. Since the last post:

1. Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury. This was a surprise birthday gift from redknight (Thanks again!) that just made it to the top of the "to read" stack. For some reason, I'd never managed to read it before now.
2. Summer Knight, Jim Butcher. More ( Read more... )

1. I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It, Barbara Sher. Some interesting thought experiments, but it didn't lead me to any great revelations about what I want to do when I grow up. Not that I really expected it to, of course; I think if all it took was a single quick reading of this ( Read more... )