Tempest Rising by Nicole PeelerJane True is the community outcast of Rockabill, Maine. She lives with and takes care of her aging father (her mother having disappeared one day as mysteriously as she appeared), works in the bookstore with its lesbian couple owners (Tracy Gregory and former(?) pornstar Grizelda Montague (formerly professionally ( Read more... )

The Unnatural Inquirer by Simon R. GreenI recently found myself questioning why I keep reading Green's books. Not just, "why do I keep buying the new ones". but "why do I go back and re-read the old ones"? I mean, if you've read one Green book you've read all of them--oh, the names change, and the specific targets, but still, all the same. And ( Read more... )

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Nightengale's Lament: a novel of the Nightside by Simon R. Green. Dark, urban fantasy. Kinda a cross between a hard-boiled detective story and Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol.. Sequel to Something from the Nightside and Agents of Light and Darkness.

Also, Sceptical Essays by Bertrand Russel. One of the problems with reading philosophy from the ( Read more... )