Showing posts with label strong females. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strong females. Show all posts
Friday, August 18, 2017

Libbie Hawker's HOUSE OF REJOICING

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Ever since my mother got a Kindle Paperwhite of her very own and she and I joined into a single household on there, all kind of surprises ...
Tuesday, September 20, 2016

Kij Johnson's THE DREAM-QUEST OF VELLITT BOE

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I hadn't known how much I wanted to explore the world of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dream Cycle" alongside a middle-aged woman an...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Scott Lynch's THE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES

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So, it's pretty well documented now that I really love Locke Lamora , and I've been eager to read more of his adventures. Especial...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

Dorothy Dunnett's PAWN IN FRANKINCENSE

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The character of Philippa Somerville pretty well stole my heart in the second half of the prior Lymond novel, The Disorderly Knights , as...
Thursday, June 27, 2013

Louis L'Amour's RIDE THE RIVER

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I'll admit to having put off picking up this one, even though so far the Sackett books have pretty much been a sausage fest (for all ...
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Dorothy Dunnet's THE DISORDERLY KNIGHTS #OneBookAtATime

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Oh, Lymond, Lymond, how I do want to love thee . And every book you almost, almost talk me out of it. Every book you look guilty as hell o...
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

100 Books #111 - Jeanne Kalogridis' THE SCARLET CONTESSA

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Let me take a moment to observe, very gratefully, that this has got to be one of the most misleading book covers I've encountered in...
Saturday, November 17, 2012

100 Books #109 - Louis L'Amour's TO THE FAR BLUE MOUNTAINS

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..."There is game." "Poaching?" I smiled. "There are no lords there to bespeak the deer or the hare, William....
Friday, November 16, 2012

100 Books #108 - Stieg Larsson's THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET'S NEST

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I think it's safe to say that the Sweden of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is very fortunate indeed that  big-time villain A...
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