Light reading (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
At the LRB, Michael Wood on T. S. Eliot (with whose poems I was utterly obsessed from ages 11-13 or so - I have just been thinking about it as I spend the evening in a mesmerized trance of reading Jo Walton 's excellent forthcoming novel Among Others , which is appearing too long a time from now even to have an Amazon link but is basically what you would get if you tailored Graham Joyce's The Tooth...
Sci-Fi Fan Letter (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Disclaimer: Normally I compile this list from the Chapters/Indigo website. Due to the new year, the search I perform did not bring up titles for January 2010. So I used my previous method, going one by one to publisher pages to see what is coming out. Unfortunately not all publishers have easy searches for this purpose. So I finished my list by using a search on Amazon.ca. What this means is this list...
Amatheyas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
I thought I'd do an update on my reading list... it's grown! Acorna’s Children: First Warning – Anne McCaffrey - Read Acorna’s Children: Second Wave – Anne McCaffrey - Read Acorna’s Children: Third Watch – Anne McCaffrey - Read Black Horsed for the King – Anne McCaffrey - Read Sassinak – Anne McCaffrey - Abandoned, half read but gave up as i wasn't enjoying...
BookLust (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Note: Rosie is posting a day early this week as tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the US and she wants to ensure that everyone has a chance to read all about Susan's Riveter. Rosie's Riveters is a weekly posting written by Booklust readers about riveting females in literature. Many readers have strong reactions to the women in the books they read- either very positive or very negative. These are the characters...
It's Your Turn (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Price: $185.00 Category: Collectibles Dragonriders of Pern: Boardgame Anne McCaffrey Rare Never Played by Mayfair Games 1983Game released in 1983 by Mayfair Games has never been played. All pieces never 'punched out' and all papers are present. This game is out of print and a never pl...
It's Your Turn (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Price: $185.00 Category: Collectibles Dragonriders of Pern: Boardgame Anne McCaffrey Rare Never Played by Mayfair Games 1983Game released in 1983 by Mayfair Games has never been played. All pieces never 'punched out' and all papers are present. This game is out of print and a never pl...
Velvet Threads (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Originally published at tansyrr.com . You can comment here or there . So in the early hours of this morning I ended up feeding my baby to the sound of an interview with Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman , the most bestselling duo of fantasy authors of all time. It was odd. Not the interview itself, which was kind of awesome. It was really fascinating to hear about how the mega publishing sensation that...
Amatheyas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
This is a lovely little tale from Anne telling the story of a young boy who ends up in the service of King Arthur. The story isn’t about King Arthur as such but rather about his horses and the development of horse shoes. Anne has gone to great lengths to make the story fit in with the historical facts/findings rather than the mythology of King Arthur as well as using her own and her families...
Amatheyas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Third Watch is the third and final book in the Acorna’s Children series. This book moves away from the spookiness of the second book and gets back to the more scientific side of dealing with the mutating illness. In this book there’s a far larger part for the ancestors friends and Grimalkin as the first half of the book mostly concerns time travel. There are a lot of fortuitous meetings...
My Right Brain (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Done in 1989 as art practice (wow, 10 years ago almost to the month!) Poster paints and ink on sketch paper. “1989 (Oct) Cover – adapted from Anne McCaffrey’s “The While Dragon” by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License. Please credit as “Ivan Chew – MyRightBrain.wordpress.com”. Another of my book cover adaption....
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Each week I am featuring one of my favorite reads from the past. I would love to hear about your favorite reads too. If you choose to participate please leave a link to your post in the comments. This week I chose Crystal Singer by Anne McCaffrey (1982). Summary (from Wikipedia ): Killashandra Ree has trained all her life to become a stellar class vocal soloist. After her final exams, she is told that...
Amatheyas Blog (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The second book in the Acorna’s Children series was just as good as the first although I did find it very spooky in places. The story slowly starts to unfold in this book as surprising new characters and lots more of the ones met in the first book. I think I preferred the first book but this one was by no means a disappointment, I’m not sure about how they left the ending but I can’t...
My Right Brain (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
I was reading a lot of Anne McCaffrey back in those days. Ink on sketch paper. 1989. 1989 (May) Dragon by Ivan Chew is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Singapore License. Please credit to Ivan Chew – MyRightBrain.wordpress.com
Amatheyas Blog (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I really had forgotten how much I enjoy reading Anne McCaffrey. She’s always been my favourite writer, ever since I was about 13 and one of my teachers suggested that I would enjoy reading the Dragon Riders of Pern. But although I reread her books (Especially the Catteni Sequence) quite frequently I haven’t read anything new for quite some time. Acorna’s Children is a set of 3 books...
Amatheyas Blog (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Well as you may have guessed I’ve really got into reading in the past month. I think there’s something about the winter drawing in, it gets cold and dark and all of a sudden you just want to curl up with a good book. Even my favourite TV programs have been ignored recently in favour of a good read. I’ve also realised that it seems to flex my creative side more than sitting around...
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