Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week The Forest House by Marion Zimmer Bradley Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson and Gabrielle Charbonnet Undead and Uneasy by MaryJanice Davidson Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Dare to Die by Carolyn...
Visions of Paradise (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
This is the fifth time I’ve picked my favorite books of the preceding decade, and I cannot help but wonder how many more chances I will have to do so in the future? Twice more? Three times perhaps? Scary thoughts. Before I begin, here is a brief review of my selections from past decades: The 1960s: Best Novel : Lord of Light / Roger Zelazny Best Short Fiction : The Star Pit / Samuel R. Delany...
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A few years ago, Jonathan Lethem published an essay in The Village Voice, ‘Close Encounters: The Squandered Promise of Science Fiction’, in which he decried the close-mindedness of the genre and sketched an alternate history in which Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow won the Nebula instead of Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous With Rama in 1973, leading to a reconciliation...
Enduring Romance (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
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Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week Seven Up by Janet Evanovich N or M? by Agatha Christie The Secret of Joy by Melissa Senate (Review Coming Soon) Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris Books I Am Currently Reading Dune by Frank Herbert...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Monthly Mixer Mele Hosted by Jen's Book Talk All you have to do is read a book that begins with a letter of each month or read a book that begins with the authors name (first or last name, doesn’t matter). There are 74 letters so you will have to have 74 different books to complete the challenge. Books can however be used to complete other challenges. You don’t have to do the months in...
BookLust (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
I have a reading list for Full Suffragette Status on the Women Unbound Challenge! To be a Suffragette, you must read eight challenge books, three of which must be non-fiction. So here's my (tentative and totally likely to be changed) list: Ladies of the Grand Tour: British Women in Pursuit of Enlightenment and Adventure in 18th Century Europe , by Brian Dolan The Road from Coorain , by Jill Ker Conway...
Reading with Tequila (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It's Monday! What are you reading this week? is a weekly event at J. Kaye's Book Blog to celebrate what we are reading for the week as well as books completed the previous week. Books I Completed This Week The Manufactured Identity by Heath Sommer Storm Front by Jim Butcher Judge & Jury by James Patterson Bled Dry by Erin McCarthy (Review coming) Books I Am Currently Reading Dune by Frank Herbert...
At Home With Books (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
This challenge is from Diane at Bibliophile By the Sea . Here are the guideline for the challenge: Between now and December 31, 2009, make a list of between 10 and 20 Books to Read Before You Die. The books on your list can come from your stacks or the library, and be in print or audio format. Once you've created your post with tentative titles, THEN sign up using Mr. Linky, by pasting the link to...
Historical Tapestry (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
We are very pleased to welcome Helen Hollick today as part of the blog tour to promote her book, Pendragon's Banner, the second book in the Pendragon's Banner trilogy. Four reasons why I love the two main characters of my Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy – Arthur and Gwenhwyfar by Helen Hollick 1. Arthur, my King Arthur, hero of my Pendragon’s Banner Trilogy, is not a Medieval knight in...
Tantrums and Tequila (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
1. What is your favorite written work of horror fiction? The Stand by Stephen King 2. What is your favorite work of science fiction/fantasy? The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley 3. Who is your favorite monster? A zombie. A specific zombie? The midget zombie from Return of the Living Dead. 4. What is your favorite Horror movie? The Shining 5. What horror movie gives you the most chills? The...
Mermaid Left as Ligan. Please Reclaim. (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
1. What is your favorite written work of horror fiction? "Carmilla" by Sheridan Le Fanu, short-story/novella-wise. Novel-wise, Drawing Blood by Poppy Z Brite. 2. What is your favorite work of science fiction/fantasy? Mists of Avalon counts as fantasy, right? By Marion Zimmer Bradley 3. Who is your favorite monster? Freddy all the way, baby. 4. What is your favorite Horror movie? I'm a whore...
The Daily Brief: Military Musings (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Sometimes, it’s a real pain in the ass, knowing history – kind of like one of those lines of telepaths in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover novels, who could see all the possible futures, resulting from any deliberate or random action and usually went mad, from it – not daring to take any step at all, [...]
Terra farmer (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies life and the future . Marion Zimmer Bradley Welcome to another Blooming Friday. Today it's all about seeds and seed-heads. To view other participants' posts, please head over to Katarina at Roses and Stuff . Throughout the high heat of summer, the Crape Ginger/ Costus speciosus put up a show of red and white. Tiny ants never had to look elsewhere...
Moms Pennies From Heaven (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Price: $5.99 Category: Fiction Books Priestess of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. Paxson HCDJ Author: Marion Zimmer Bradley and Diana L. PaxsonHardcover: 394 pages Publisher: Viking 1st U.S. edition edition May 3, 2001 Language: English ISBN10: 0670910236 ISBN13: 978067...
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