Scotish Puns and sword jockeys

Scone Cold Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnet. Second in a series set in Moosetookalook, ME. A pretty good mystery. The puns not bad either.

Burn Me Deadly by Alex Bledsoe. Second in a series also. Sort of a medeval private eye in a fantasy world with just a touch of magic. Just as good as the first and that was great.

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Moosetookalook, ME and Dreamdark

I would have probably have chosen to read Kilt Dead by Kaitlyn Dunnett if I had noticed the location of the crime scene. You've got to love a name like that.

Actually I was intrigued by the Scottish theme.A book about a Scottish dancer, Highland Fairs in rural Maine and a punning title. What's not to like. At any rate I'm reading Dunnett's Scone Cold Dead after I post this.

I read Faeries of Dreamdark: Blackbringer by Laini Taylor next. This is a YA title.The book is a good one and I'll be reading the next one soon; Dreamdark: Silksinger.

The next comment is grossly unfair to the story, which as I said is good, but... Wouldn't it be nice if instead of nameless, formless monsters that swallow everyone in their path somebody created one that stuffed people to death?

Wait! Don't they call that Thanksgiving?

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Murder al la Computer

All except the last of these books are by a favorite author of mine: Donna Andrews. Her books You've Got Murder, Click Here for Murder, Access Denied and Delete All Suspects are re-reads. They feature Turing Hopper an AIP (Artificial Intelligence Personality) as the sleuth, aided by her human friends Tim and Maude. An interesting premise and both believable and enjoyable. The series seems to have stopped at four books although another is hinted at .

The Sexiest Dead Man Alive by Jane Blackwood is a romantic comedy. An OK read.

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The Voyage by David Drake

A hard SF by an author I've read before. On some of his books he bases his plots on mythological stories. This one is a riff on the Argonauts. Of its nature a little episodic. Not a bad read but I'm not to fond of stories where anything goes as long as it gets you what you want. Even if you feel bad about it latter.

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We'll Try This Again

I finally figured out (I'm a little slow sometimes) that the reason I let the book list pile up was because I found the idea of commenting on every book and author and researching and posting links to be a chore.

Then it dawned on me that if you (the hypothetical reader of this journal) wanted to know more about an author all they had to do was google them. Well duh!

So I'm not going to do that any more. At least not often.

Strong Spirits by Alice Duncan

Fledgling by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. This is going to be one of the exceptions. Their web site is here: www.korval.com/ Fledgling started out life as an experiment in reader supported web serialization.The story was posted week by week as it was written and as long as donations kept coming. The book was finished with more left over for another book! As presented on line it was the first draft of a book that might never appear on dead trees. It has made it to print and is well worth reading. You don't have to have read the first draft to enjoy this Liaden side story. The "left over parts" will be published as Saltation next year. (This was also serialized.) The story line is scheduled to rejoin the main Liaden universe plot line in a future book Ghost Ship.

Lost & Found by Jayne Ann Krentz

I Shot You Babe by Leslie Langtry

Graceling by Krisin Cashore

Mercy Thompson: Homecoming (Graphic novel) Patricia Briggs. My age is showing here I think. When I was a kid I devoured comic books just as fast as the regular kind. (This was more than 50 years ago.) I found this book a bit disappointing. The story was OK, and I love the author's books but... Possibly it was the difference in style between multiple illustrators. Or may be just because that wasn't how I pictured Mercy. The tattoos Mercy had, which changed with the illustrator didn't help.

Fire by Krisin Cashore

The Finishing Touches by Hester Browne

The Tale of Applebeck Orchard by Susan Wittig Albert

By Katie Fforde (all re-reads except as noted)
Life Skills
Wild Designs
Restoring Grace
Second Thyme Around
Highland Fling
Statey Pursuits
Artistic License (new to me)
Bidding for Love

Tongue in Chic by Christina Dodd

Thirteen Orphans: Breaking the Wall by Jane Lindskold
Nine Gates : Breaking the Wall

Angel's Flight by Alice Duncan

The Secret Life of Bryan by Lori Foster

Truth or Dare by Jayne Ann Krentz


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