Since this bedamned cold / flu / lurghi which keeps me from reading (or doing much of anything) seems disinclined to take itself off, I might as well post my final Books Read of the year.  Perhaps by the  rollover to 2013, I might even bestir myself to compile some sort of vague analysis of 2012's reading as a whole ( Read more... )

One thing I can say in favor of sitting about in doctors’ waiting rooms:  it gives me a LOT of time to read.  On the other hand, it doesn’t give me any inclination to be generous about my reading.

FICTION

Ballantine, Pip,and Tee Morris. THE JANUS AFFAIR.

The first Ministry of Peculiar Occurences  title received a pretty “meh” review from me, but I ( Read more... )

Oh, my.  I haven’t done this for the entire summer, have I?

Well, let’s see what I can remember. This might be a little long, so I'll post under a cut.

It seems to have been a summer filled with middling-to-good fluff fiction.

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So, it's been almost a quarter year since I've posted one of these;  and it looks like that everything I can remember reading in the past few months (aside from all the review books) has been very much of a theme.  I don't even want to speculate about what's up with that.

Fiction

The Only Gold by Tamara Allan.
             Well, I tried Downtime  and ( Read more... )

A lot, actually, but not much just for me;  mostly for various work-related assignments, paid and otherwise.

Still, with all the reviewing and bibliography-compiling, not to mention the stressors and complications of Life (TM), I did manage to squeeze in a few books for fun.

Too bad they mostly weren't.  Fun, that is.

Fiction

No Proper Lady by Isabel ( Read more... )