Book News & Reviews
Sara’s Holds Shelf reviewed Elizabeth Knox’s Dreamhunter. She recommends it for fans of Philip Pullman, which is enough to get my attention.
George R. R. Martin posted an update on his LiveJournal. A Dance with Dragons is going slowly, but making some progress; he’s hired an assistant.
Fantasy Book Critic reviewed The Sharing Knife [...]
ISBN: 978-1570615009
Pages: 304 (paperback)
Author: Nancy Pearl
Most of what I could say about this book is also true of Book Lust, which I reviewed last month - the largest difference being that this covers young adult and children’s literature exclusively. Instead of repeating myself, I’ll add a few additional thoughts.
Though Book Crush gave me a few [...]
ISBN: [Varies by edition] Words: 162,000
Author: Daphne Du Maurier
“THE UNSURPASSED MODERN MASTERPIECE OF ROMANTIC SUSPENSE,” boasts the cover.
Well, I’m not sure about that - the book was published in 1938, and neither romantic nor suspenseful are adjectives that immediately spring to mind, by today’s standards - but I enjoyed Rebecca quite a lot for [...]
“The Kingkiller Chronicle, Day One”
ISBN: 978-0756404079 | Pages: 662 (hardcover)
Author: Patrick Rothfuss
It’s cloudy out. I took a picture of them - the clouds, I mean - with my sugar-snap peas in the foreground. It looked good in sepia.
My OS X weather widget tells me it’s raining, but my eyes tell me it’s not; as such, I must conclude that rain in the near future is not [...]
Go into any bookstore and you’ll see photos on covers everywhere. I’m not sure whether publishers think photography sells books better or they’re just too cheap to pay an artist, but it seems to be a growing trend in cover design.
Most of the time, I don’t have a problem with it. I mean, I don’t [...]
ISBN: 978-0399153440 Pages: 510 (hardcover)
Author: Kate Mosse
Novelish opened on June 2nd, or fifteen days ago. Keeping a blog has been great fun for me - if slightly more effort than I’d anticipated - and I’m starting to make small adjustments:
General updates
The Read in 2007 page is updated with the latest books I’ve read (I’m up to 40 so far). The links [...]