I officially should be kept out of all stores selling books. Even if they just have a shelf in the corner, I should not be allowed in. We're broke. And I just added 13 or 14 new books just this last week. If I found interesting books, the rent would be unpaid. This is something that has actually happened in the past. The far distant past, but still ( Read more... )

The Cat Who Went Underground by Lillian Jackson Braun (281 pp ( Read more... )

2009 16 (started midyear)
2010 47
2011 27 (what happened?)
2012 16 (so far)

Far too behind to update with reviews, but I can at least post the books and if I liked them. That said ...

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Liked it. It was the now-standard love story slash mystery with a human woman and a vampire. This one at least explored it a bit more pragmatically than many others.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana ( Read more... )

Imager, by L.E. Modesitt, Jr. (432 pages ( Read more... )

Reviews to follow later. I just needed to get these entered, so I can put them back on the shelves, thus freeing a square foot of pathway from the bedroom floor. Okay I fibbed - slight reviews to remind me of the books later on.

The Last Kingdom, by Bernard Cornwell (428 pp ( Read more... )

The Green Knight, by Iris Murdoch ( Read more... )

Agincourt, a novel by Bernard Cornwell ( Read more... )

Night Over Water, by Ken Follett ( review here )

( A Cat on Stage Left< by Lydia Adams )