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Nightwalker by Jocelynn Drake

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:12:48 -0700

I got this ARC of Nightwalker from EOS Books just last week and I already finished it. I love long weekends. The book came in unbound manuscript format so I walked over to Kinko's to bind it after I finished reading it. This was a trial. It was ...

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Frederica by Georgette Heyer

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:57:15 -0700

Frederica is my second Heyer read, the first one was Black Sheep which I reviewed here. I enjoyed Black Sheep so I was expecting a similar read, but surprisingly - I actually liked Frederica even more! Maybe it was because this novel was more fun...

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July Book Blowout Challenge

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:13:52 -0700

So, I've been lazy with following the weekly geeks but week 9's one was participating in a challenge, and it just so happens there's a challenge I wanted to join. The July Book Blowout challenge was just to read more books in july: "The rules ar...

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Magic Study by Maria V. Snyder

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:41:16 -0700

Magic Study is a fantasy novel and the second book in the Study trilogy. In book 1, Yelena, our protagonist and narrator, is a woman imprisoned for murder who was given the choice between death or being the poison taster for the Commander of Ix...

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Giveaway

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:57:43 -0700

calico_reaction over on livejournal is having another giveaway. Winner gets to choose one of the following 6 books (links are to her reviews of each): 1) Daniel Abraham: A Shadow in Summer 2) David Anthony Durham: Acacia 3) Guy Gavriel Kay: Ysabe...

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paperback to hardcover

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:28:08 -0700

Zeek from the blog The Way I See It posted that book 4 of the Mercy Thompson series, Bone Crossed, is going to be hardcover! Uggg. You know, I'm a big fan of this series, but I don't like hardcover. I think the last fiction book I bought new in h...

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Goodreads

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:52:03 -0700

Ok, I had a goodreads account for a while but there was nothing in it. I just put all the books I had in my paperbackswap lists in there so now it has the books read in the past 2 and a half years and the up to date TBR. Vox lets me put a goodrea...

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Urban Shaman by C. E. Murphy

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:50:12 -0700

I started the second of C.E. Murphy's series (the Negotiator trilogy) earlier this year, but her first book, Urban Shaman was on my TBR as well. I just read it, and I think I may actually like this series even more. Joanne Walker is a mechanic w...

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Vampire High by Douglas Rees

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:44:07 -0700

This is another book I picked up at Goodwill. Vampire High is a young adult novel, probably appropriate for ages 10 and up. While I was reading it I thought that this might be the kind of book to give to a kid who doesn't like to read. It reminde...

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Thunder Moon by Lori Handeland

nobody@vox.com(janicu) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:32:59 -0700

To be honest I didn't expect to like this book. I picked it up at Goodwill because I recognized the author as a popular one and I noticed that the published date was January 2008, so I thought I would swap it on paperbackswap. The only thing I ha...

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