With links to reviews. As always, any comments are or questions or hits at the epinions site are most welcome.
http://www.epinions.com/review/Triggerf ... 6574653060 -- Triggerfish Twist by Tim Dorsey (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Becoming ... 7190494852 -- Becoming Queen Victoria by Kate Williams (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/My_Favor ... 7805484676 -- My Favorite Bride by Christina Dodd (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Storm_Fr ... 8019328644 -- Storm Front (Dresden Files, vol. 1) by Jim Butcher (fantasy/horror)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_In_ ... 8396226180 -- In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds by Ann Rule (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Susan_Ho ... 8706932356 -- The Countess and the King: A Novel of the Countess of Dorchester and King James II by Susan Holloway Scott (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Lois_McM ... 8988278404 -- CryoBurn by Lois McMaster Bujold (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Going_Po ... 9288498820 -- Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 9508503172 -- The True Memoirs of Little K. by Adrienne Sharp (fiction)
Dexter is Delicious by Jeff Lindsay (fiction) -- review coming up
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Telynor's Heap o' Books
[quote=""Ariadne""]Thanks for your candid review of the Sharp. Having already read plenty of fiction about the Romanovs that doesn't deserve the term "historical," I appreciate your thoughts and will avoid the book.[/quote]
It was pretty awful. It was so unbelievable and unlikely, and the author just kept digging herself into the hole, and it just got deeper and uglier.
It was pretty awful. It was so unbelievable and unlikely, and the author just kept digging herself into the hole, and it just got deeper and uglier.
[quote=""LoobyG""]I second that thanks Telynor, I had the Little K book on my wishlist and it's now been removed! I couldn't put up with the idea of Nicholas II returning to Mathilde as a lover after his marriage.[/quote]
It was that got the wallbanger push. It was such an unlikely, silly twist -- given that Nicholas was very much in love with his wife, I can't imagine him straying. And there must have been temptation all around him. The other point were the letters that Mathilde wrote to Alix before the wedding, and that would have really set him off -- I would think that he would have been ready to choke that woman for doing that.
It was that got the wallbanger push. It was such an unlikely, silly twist -- given that Nicholas was very much in love with his wife, I can't imagine him straying. And there must have been temptation all around him. The other point were the letters that Mathilde wrote to Alix before the wedding, and that would have really set him off -- I would think that he would have been ready to choke that woman for doing that.
November 2010 reads
The links will take you to the longer reviews. Not as many as I would have hoped for, but still -- two books a week on average is not shabby.
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_Dan ... 0337664644 -- Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de La Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 0971332228 -- The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen, edited and annotated by David Shapard (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_For ... 1180588676 -- For All the Tea in China (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_Foo ... 1984387716 -- Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 2203998852 -- The Stingray Shuffle by Tim Dorsey (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_Sim ... 2511886980 -- Simply Love by Mary Balogh (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Never_Le ... 2620676740 -- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester (nonfiction) -- review forthcoming
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_Dan ... 0337664644 -- Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de La Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era by Caroline Moorehead (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 0971332228 -- The Annotated Persuasion by Jane Austen, edited and annotated by David Shapard (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_For ... 1180588676 -- For All the Tea in China (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_Foo ... 1984387716 -- Fool Moon by Jim Butcher (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 2203998852 -- The Stingray Shuffle by Tim Dorsey (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_Sim ... 2511886980 -- Simply Love by Mary Balogh (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Never_Le ... 2620676740 -- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (fiction)
Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester (nonfiction) -- review forthcoming
December 2010
Well. It's done for the year, at least the review writing -- I'm just not in the mood to write anything today. Just tea, telly, and a book with a cat or two or three. As always, comments and hits on the reviews are most welcome.
Total for the year comes in at just under 120 books read and reviewed.
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 3831454340 -- The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_Bli ... 4364524164 -- Blindmans Bluff by Faye Kellerman (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Tracy_Bo ... 4703148676 -- Elizabeths Women by Tracy Borman (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Ann_Rule ... 5007563396 -- Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 5338454660 -- The Border Lord and the Lady by Bertrice Small (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Greg_Kin ... 5573597828 -- The Resurrection of the Romanovs by Greg King and Penny Wilson (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Elizabet ... 5824273028 -- The Leopard Unleashed by Elizabeth Chadwick (fiction)
The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig (fiction)
Cadillac Beach by Tim Dorsey (fiction)
Total for the year comes in at just under 120 books read and reviewed.
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 3831454340 -- The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_Bli ... 4364524164 -- Blindmans Bluff by Faye Kellerman (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Tracy_Bo ... 4703148676 -- Elizabeths Women by Tracy Borman (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Ann_Rule ... 5007563396 -- Bitter Harvest by Ann Rule (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Book_The ... 5338454660 -- The Border Lord and the Lady by Bertrice Small (fiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Greg_Kin ... 5573597828 -- The Resurrection of the Romanovs by Greg King and Penny Wilson (nonfiction)
http://www.epinions.com/review/Elizabet ... 5824273028 -- The Leopard Unleashed by Elizabeth Chadwick (fiction)
The Mischief of the Mistletoe by Lauren Willig (fiction)
Cadillac Beach by Tim Dorsey (fiction)