Novelish

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 by Lois McMaster Bujold. It’s going on my list of books to read at some point in the future, I think.
• Mary Modern is coming out next month and looks promising - I’m really enjoying literary fiction that includes some elements of fantasy lately. (Found this on Fantasy Book Critic’s list of July books, but the post has mysteriously disappeared since.)
• It strikes me that this is all decidedly fantasy-genre in nature, which wasn’t my intent. I did finish Donna Tartt’s The Little Friend. My review of that is in the works.

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“Rockin’ Girl Blogger”

Tiffany of the RockStories blog presented me with this shiny award:

As I understand it, I’m supposed to pass it on to five other bloggers. The idea of that is a little intimidating, since I’m so new to the blogosphere, but I’ll try.

1. Bookshelves of Doom - Book reviews, news, and other miscellaneous thoughts - more or less the same type of thing as Novelish.
2. Maddy, who is guest blogging on Neil Gaiman’s journal for two weeks (starting June 20th). She’s done a great job of it so far.
3. Arin i Asolde - Quite possibly the best collection of fiction writing advice available on the internet.
4. Miss Snark - She’s no longer blogging, but she still deserves it.
5. Violent Acres - Just because I enjoy reading it when I have the time.

I should say that these are based wholly on whether I like them personally - nothing else. I’m not sure if “rockin” is a term I’d use to describe any of them.

Come to think of it, I wouldn’t describe Novelish that way either, but oh well.