I have read books! I have had thoughts on them! These thoughts include but are not limited to:

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss - Very entertaining. The first straight-up, sword-and-sorcery fantasy that I've read in a long time, and I heartily enjoyed this return to a genre that I pretty much lived in for my teen years. ( Read more... )

No, not books about the first trimester but rather novels that have been distracting me from the woes of the first trimester.

In the order in which I read them:

The Dead Zone by Stephen KingI actually started reading this before I knew I was pregnant and I finished it before the worst of the nausea hit, which is good because I've learned the ( Read more... )

Okay, I haven't caught up with book reviews since...before Lent? That can't be right. Well anyway, a long time. So I'm going to just do these at the speed of light and just get it out of the way. I'm not posting reviews of everything I've read since Lent because first of all I do, contrary to popular belief, have a life and secondly I can't even ( Read more... )

Just finished reading Inside Job by Connie Willis (it's free online right now because it's up for a Hugo). It's about two reporters for a "debunker" magazine in a near future wherein spiritualism, mediums, auras and tarot cards have made a comeback in popularity to beat the Victorian era. It's funny, clever, and told with Willis's effortless skill ( Read more... )

I'm probably the last person on the planet to read Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, but just in case I'm not:

Buy it. Read it. Now. No, seriously.

This was the book I was looking for when I originally went in search of something to read after finishing and adoring Neverwhere. Unfortunately, this book had not been published at that time, so I bought ( Read more... )

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
This book is delicious. I think I shall eat it.
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Rarr. I have only one chapter of Brilliant High Fantasy left, and instead of reading it as fast as humanly possible, I am putting it off as a treat for myself once I've caught up with some book reviews. Onward!

Drowned Wednesday and Sir Thursday by Garth NixWe're going to do a two-for-one because it's been ages since I read these and they're in ( Read more... )

His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Firstly: ZOMGLUV!!1 I've already posted an initial gush about this book here after reading the first 150 pages. Everything I said there was still true after reading the whole thing.
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I've tried several times to write a Gone With the Wind review, to no avail. Thus it is that I find myself once more backlogged on book reviews and dreading writing them more and more the longer I put the task off. And, then, of course, there's the fact that my memory has all the fine-tuned retention of cheese cloth, and the longer I put off writing ( Read more... )

Am woefully behind on book reviews. As a result, these will be rather short and incomplete. I start forgetting things about a book almost as soon as I put it down, so there's no point in trying to frame complete thoughts about these.

Guards! Guards! by Terry Prachett:Yay for Prachett! Hilarity abounds, especially for those who have read Tolkien ( Read more... )