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Jeannie Lin writes really fun romances set in Tang Dynasty China.  Her most recent book is called The Sword Dancer, which, thanks to the power of pre-order, just arrived on my kindle.  I'm looking forward to getting into the story, but what's really neat is that in her introduction, Lin referenced Jennifer Roberson's book Sword-Dancer.  Even though ( Read more... )

The second volume of Brian K. Vaughan's Saga arrived from Amazon today, so that's the print book I'm reading next.  While it is true that the art of Fiona Staples is beautiful, it is also true that a lot of the images in this story are frankly. . . disgusting.  This leads to philosophical questions about whether one would rather have a great or a ( Read more... )

So, I had a dream about GoT last night.  I'm slowly working my way through the season just past--Season 3.  I'm hampered because I have to watch it when Dad's not around because he is not a fan.  I guess I'm enjoying the season, if one can say that about something as grim as GoT.  I'm interested in the characters, that's the main reason why I stick ( Read more... )

I finished Stormdancer today.  Wow!  Those final pages were heart-stoppers.  I'm a sucker for good world-building, and this book had that and more.  All the details were fascinating, the Blood Lotus production, the Iron Samurai.  The characters too, really felt like they had depth.  I could sense the history between them, like I'd just stepped into ( Read more... )

Hello!  Here we are on Summer Break at last!  L, T and D, who hate to have their names bandied about social media, gave me a giant plastic bag of books for Christmas--I mean it, a BIG bag.  Anyway, they kindly delivered it to me in April when we all went to Marcon and it's been sitting in the corner of my room making whining noises ever since.  One ( Read more... )