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Book Review: Trickster’s Choice

Title: Trickster’s Choice Author: Tamora Pierce Review Number: 12 Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Stand alone or series: Book 1 in the Daughter of the Lioness duology; part of Tamora Pierce’s larger collection of work set in Tortall Summary: (from…

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Fried! An Interview with Joel A. Sutherland

Joel A. Sutherland is a librarian, an editor and an author. He and his wife Colleen Morris are co-editors of the recently Book Smuggler reviewed Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths–a horror story anthology with some bite (Lame attempt at…

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Book Review: Stardoc

Title: Stardoc Author: S.L. Viehl Review Number: 11 Genre: Science Fiction Stand alone or series: First in the Stardoc series (7 books total, with more in the works) Summary: (from us.penguingroup.com)Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil leaves Earth and accepts a…

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The North and South Crusade: Part Deux

After much urging and fawning from Ana, and seeing the impressive Crusade on Kristie’s Ramblings on Romance campaign, I ordered the miniseries online and finally got a chance to watch it this weekend. Holy crow, it is everything I…

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Book Review: Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths

Title: Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths Author: Anthology of short stories with various authors; edited by Colleen Morris and Joel A. Sutherland Review Number: 9 Genre: Short Fiction, Horror Stand alone or Series: Stand Alone Summary: (from amazon.com)Fried! contains…

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Book Review: The Sharing Knife

Title: The Sharing Knife: Beguilement and Legacy (books 1&2) Author: Lois McMaster Bujold Review Number: 8 Genre: Fantasy, Romance Stand alone or series: Series (First two books in a continuing series, next book out this spring!) Summary: (from harpercollins.com)…

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Book Review: The Blue Sword

Title: The Blue Sword Author: Robin McKinley Review Number: 7 Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Stand alone or series: Has a prequel (written after this book was done, though), but can be read alone Summary: (from Amazon.com)Harry Crewe is an…

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From Thea’s Dungeon

This episode’s unearthings: Kushiel’s Dart and Howl’s Moving Castle Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey This book is the first of the Kushiel’s Legacy series (currently 5 books with the sixth coming soon). These books are pure magic. It has…

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