10 Saturday Aug 2013
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From: http://www.baenebooks.com/
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War Maid’s Choice is a solid addition to David Weber’s War God series, with some really interesting things happening. As is my wont with reviews of recent books, I’m not going to tell you what they are. 🙂 Continue reading
22 Saturday Jun 2013
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The translated Moribito novels
As I observed a couple of years ago “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit from 2007 is an outstanding show from beginning to end.”
So how do the light novels by Nahoko Uehashi stack up against the anime? To find out I borrowed them from a friend in Perth [1], and the answers are surprising. Continue reading
16 Sunday Jun 2013
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Kitty Norville (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I ordered Kitty and the Midnight Hour at Conflux, picked it up at Continuum [1], and this short urban fantasy [2] is definitely worth a look.
11 Friday Jan 2013
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is a thoroughly impressive debut novel from N. K. Jemisin that I’m not sure I fully understood [1]. Ah well, such is life. 🙂 Continue reading
Pirates of the Burley Griffin 