Medicine Road by Charles deLint; illustrated by Charles VessAlmost a hundred years ago, Red Dog chased a jakalope into a power vortex in the hills above what is now Sedona, Arizona. There they encounter Coyote Woman, who, for reasons of her own, turns them both human (they gain the ability to change back to their original forms, and back to human ( Read more... )

Mean Streets: four novellas by Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson, Thomas E. SniegoskiIn Butcher's "The Warrior", Harry Dresden confronts human evil: someone is sending him photographs of his friend Michael Carpenter, the recently retired Paladin whose sword Harry now has in his keeping. The pictures are perfectly set up for a sniper. ( Read more... )

( Dingo by Charles deLint )

( The Devil's Right Hand by Lilith Saintcrow )

( Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean by Justin Somper )

( the Blue Girl by Charles deLint )

Starting out the month of September, let's get the unpleasant ones out of the way first:

By the way, these contain spoilers.

( Shape-Changers by Jennifer Roberson )

Rereading has been slowing me down. It looks like I only read 5 new books in July (only? The post that inspired this counting game stated that a study had shown the average american is considered "well-read" if s/he reads 6 books in a year; as my five in a month takes me up to 61 for the year, 16 of them non-fiction, I guess I'm well0read by that ( Read more... )