tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40306322011-04-21T11:07:30.081-07:00I Read MoreA blog to help me reach my goal of reading at least three books per month. I will post a review of each book I read.deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1115918678430495152005-05-12T10:17:00.000-07:002005-05-12T10:24:38.436-07:00MagicatsMagicats! is a book of short stories edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It features stories from such greats as Stephen King, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Fritz Leiber among others. The stories feature fey cats, funny cats, deadly cats, cats that dreams are made of, cats to haunt your nightmares. Fun!I don't usually read collections of short stories, but I recommend this book if for no deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1111426599073918052005-03-21T09:28:00.000-08:002005-03-21T09:36:39.073-08:00Tinkerby Wen SpencerI was introduced to Spencer’s writing with her Ukiah Oregon series (loved that) and was expecting the same sort of seat-of-your-pants writing. I wasn’t disappointed. In Tinker, Spencer has created an interesting concept: the feedback from a “spacegate” has caused Pittsburg, USA, to become displaced on an alternate Earth known as Elfhome. Every thirty days the stargate is deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1108329391440504642005-02-13T13:13:00.000-08:002005-02-13T13:16:31.443-08:00Wen SpencerI am an addicted fan of Wen Spencer and her Ukiah Oregon series:Alien Taste: Living with wolves as a child gave tracker Ukiah Oregon a heightened sense of smell and taste. Or so he thought-until he crossed paths with a criminal gang known as the Pack. Now, Ukiah is about to discover just how much he has in common with the Pack: a bond of blood, brotherhood...and destiny.Tainted Trail: deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1092898324699025712004-08-18T23:51:00.000-07:002004-08-19T00:06:39.370-07:00AFTER DUING A bit of research, actually I was looking for a graphic, on The Wayfarer Redemption trilogy, I found out that the American Version of The Wayfarer Redemption includes all 6 books combined. (Sara Douglas is an Australian and the series first appeared there).
The set includes:
· The Axis Trilogy: Battleaxe, Enchanter, Starman
· The Wayfarer Redemption Series: Sinner, Pilgrim, Crusader
deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-109289821898205232004-08-18T23:44:00.000-07:002004-08-18T23:50:18.983-07:00The Wayfarer Redemption Trilogy
by Sara Douglass
Yes! I actually read and finished not one, but three whole books—Pauline gave them to me for Christmas. She was really, really trying to find a gift I would truly enjoy, and she succeeded despite herself because I usually read sf not fantasy—even if it did take since Christmas.
The cover blurb on the back of The Wayfarer deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1086579683276092082004-06-06T20:30:00.000-07:002004-06-06T20:41:23.276-07:00Star Trek: The Lost Era: Catalyst of Sorrows
by Margaret Wander Bonanno
The year is 2360.
She was trained to be a killing machine. Abandoned as a child, without home or family, past or future, Zetha survived only by her own cunning in the back alleys of Romulus before being taken by the Tal Shiar and remade into one of its deadliest weapons. But Zetha is about to undertake a mission unlike any deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1078154388173529632004-03-01T07:16:00.000-08:002004-03-01T07:24:04.000-08:00This is for you Harry Potter fans
I suspect some of you bought "Sorceror's Stone" when it first came out. Do you have a first American editon - valued at $3,500? Here are some clues to help you identify it:Number line reads: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 8 9/9 0/0 01 02
States: "Printed in the USA" and "First American edition, October 1998"
Dust jacket lists price of $16.95
The numbers 51695 appears deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1078153967787663352004-03-01T07:06:00.000-08:002004-03-01T07:17:14.360-08:00Now this is interesting
I was doing some research into various first editions. I am selling some books on eBay and want to know what books to look out for. I knew John Grisham's first book A Time to Kill had a high value because it is listed in the Price Guide I use at the book stores. But, I didn't know this[Grisham] Began writing A Time to Kill in 1984, and finished in 1987. The book was deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1074695887561628042004-01-21T06:28:00.000-08:002004-01-21T06:40:06.623-08:00Christmas Gifts
My best friend gave me three books. It is a trilogy called "The Axis Trilogy" by Sara Douglass: The Wayfarer Redemption, Enchanter, and Starman. I am a little more than half-way through the first book and it is very good. I say that even though I don't usually read fantasy.Book Description from Amazon.com
A millennia-old prophecy was given when the Forbidden Ones were driven deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1071500661391488032003-12-15T07:04:00.000-08:002003-12-15T07:05:32.200-08:00Nothing Human
by Nancy Kress
Yes, I actually read a book. I found this title when I was checking out the "What's New" list at the library at the beginning of the month. Since Kress has been a favorite of mine for quite some time, I decided to give it a try.
Noting Human puts us in a near future where mankind is on the verge of destroying himself. The biggest threat is environmental deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1070466839509295612003-12-03T07:53:00.000-08:002003-12-03T08:04:08.233-08:00A New Pern book
by Anne McCaffrey and son.
From Amazon.com:
"Young Kindan has no expectations other than joining his father in the mines of Camp Natalon, a coal mining settlement struggling to turn a profit far from the great Holds where the presence of dragons and their riders means safety and civilization. Mining is fraught with danger. Fortunately, the camp has a watch-wher, a creature deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1068649317760442792003-11-12T07:01:00.000-08:002003-11-12T07:02:24.246-08:00A library is a great place to be
Or at least to find a book. Currently I have two books waiting for me: Nothing Human by Nancy Kress, and Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick. I will pick them up today and I will try to get them both read and reviewed in a timely manner.
The last Kress book I read was The White Pipes. It was a romantic fantasy and one of her early books. I do much prefer her sciencedeborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1063030003600197792003-09-08T07:06:00.000-07:002003-09-08T07:06:43.620-07:00Okay, okay!
Maybe I really should rename this blog "I Read More (or Less)." Yes, I am back online, but I don't seem to be updating my pages in a timely manner. I think now that the children are back in school I will be able to get back on track. Please keep me in your good thoughts.deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1061396911275136952003-08-20T09:28:00.000-07:002003-08-20T09:28:31.226-07:00I think I should change the name of this blog
I think I will rename my blog "I read more (or less)." I have actually read one book in the past month. It was The White Pipes by Nancy Kress. It was one of her first books and is a fantasy. I generally don't read fantasy, but this was by Nancy (one of my favorite writers of sf).
The book is quite good and shows the creative genius of Kress which deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-1057591253562600272003-07-07T08:20:00.000-07:002003-07-07T08:20:53.523-07:00I Think I Am Back Online to Stay
A short time after I published the previous blog, my computer had a major malfunction and had to go to the PC hospital way over in South Dakota. Thankfully, it is back now and seems to be recovered *cross fingers*.
I have read only one book since the last post, and that was the Timothy Zahn book Dragon and Thief. It was a very good book for young readers. I deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-945353912003-05-18T06:54:00.000-07:002003-05-18T06:54:20.246-07:00Now that I am back online...
Yeah, my computer was broke down for a whole month! What a pity party I went through. Now that I am back online I hope to update this page more frequently. I am currently reading a new novel by Timothy Zahn, and have a couple more waiting to be read. Hope to get at least the one I am reading and one more done by the end of May.deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-945353222003-05-18T06:51:00.000-07:002003-05-18T06:51:35.473-07:00Wow! April is gone, too
And I read only one book during that Month. That book was Permanence by Karl Schroder. I didn't care for this book very much. In fact, after it was done, I wondered why I bothered reading it in the first place. You may like it, though, so I'll post the book description from Amazon.com:Young Rue Cassels of the Cycler Compact -- a civilization based around remote brown deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-923017892003-04-09T10:17:00.000-07:002003-04-09T10:17:08.890-07:00Wow, March disappeared
I am still working on the third book for March which has actually become the first book of April. Oh, well, maybe if I really put my mind to it I can accomplish my goal for April. I only have to say I have fallen behind in my reading because of the blahs the last couple of weeks. I think I am over that. I sure hope so. I don't like being so disinterested in my hobbies.deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-912357332003-03-23T11:42:00.000-08:002003-03-23T11:47:11.000-08:00Tenebrea Rising
by Roxann Dawson and Daniel Graham
Book three of the Tenebrea Trilogy finds Andrea Flores on a desparate mission to rescue her mentor Hal K'Rin and his elite Tenbrea from certain death in Klamdara prison. In order to effect the rescue she has engaged the wilderness clone Brigon and his brigade of followers. In the meantime, the Cor Ordinate has plans to wipe out the Jod fleet anddeborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-909247012003-03-18T06:52:00.000-08:002003-03-18T06:52:42.466-08:00Aftermath
by Charles Sheffield
Earth has suffered an unexpected natural disaster: Supernova Alpha Centauri. The supernova has become a second sun, destroying everything in the southern hemisphere and severely crippling the northern.
The story focuses on several groups of people: The president of the U.S.A. and his staff; Three cancer survivors who are desparate for continued treatment even if deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-902556542003-03-06T12:06:00.000-08:002003-03-06T12:17:34.000-08:00The Top 50
Thanks to Betty for this mentioning this link to the Science Fiction Book Club's Top Fifty Most Significant Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Last Fifty Years.
Considering the thousands of books I have read in my life, I am surprised that I have read only 10 of these books:
The Lord of the Rings
Dune
Stranger in a Strange Land
Childhood's End
Do Androids Dream of deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-901894122003-03-05T11:29:00.000-08:002003-03-05T11:55:24.000-08:00Quantum Moon
bu Denise Vitola
The time is the mid-twenty-first century. The setting is an Earth under the control of The United World Government. Ty Merrick is a Marshall charged with bringing murderers to justice.
When the wife of a powerful District councilman is murdered, it is Ty and her partner LaRue who are hot on the trail of the killer. It is no ordinary case for it involves the deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-898689262003-02-27T16:09:00.000-08:002003-02-28T11:30:43.000-08:00Oxygen
by John B. Olson and Randall Ingermanson
One minute Valkerie Jenson is looking for microbes in the heat of an on-the-edge-of-erupting volcano, the next she is on the first manned mission to Mars, aka Ares 10. Well, it doesn't happen quite that fast. First Valkerie has to pass some grueling testing and then catch-up (in a year and a half) the five years of training she has missed. After deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-896447682003-02-24T06:51:00.000-08:002003-02-24T07:07:33.000-08:00Artemis Fowl
by Eoin Colfer
Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is not a good little boy. In fact, he is a criminal mastermind. His mission, this time, is to regain the wealth lost when his father's scheme to sell a shipload of cola to countries newly free after the collapse of the Russian empire was sunk, literally. To this end, Atemis has kidnapped an elf and is holding her ransom for the pot of golddeborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-896128112003-02-23T12:46:00.000-08:002003-02-23T13:43:57.000-08:00Remnant Population
by Elizabeth Moon
Ofelia is an old woman. In the way of old people who have made up their minds, Ofelia refuses to leave when the colony planet on which she has lived for more than 40 years is ordered evacuated. At the last minute she runs away and hides in the forest knowing the Company will not spend much energy or time searching for her. And she is right. After the other deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-896116122003-02-23T12:19:00.000-08:002003-02-23T13:40:02.000-08:00To Trade the Stars
by Julie Czerneda
Sira, the most powerful member of the Clan, and her human lifemate, telepathic Jason Morgan, have just settled down into the life of traders when their world is shaken up: Jason's best best friends is framed for murder; a rouge faction of the Clan is sending fosterlings out willy-nilly; Sira is kidnapped by an arch-enemy; and the Drapsk...just what are those deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-886645302003-02-06T12:17:00.000-08:002003-02-23T12:57:49.000-08:00IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS
by Julie Czerneda.
Gail Smith is a scientist on a mission—to destroy the alien Quill from the terraformed worlds, worlds which were prepared for humanity and which the Quill now own. Quill are deadly to humans and the terraformed worlds have been quarantined for years. Not only that, any humans who were absent from Sol system when the quarantine went into effect were deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-881137602003-01-27T12:27:00.000-08:002003-02-23T12:58:12.000-08:00Tenebrea's Hope
This second in The Tenebrea trilogy by Roxane Dawson and Daniel Graham finds Andrea Flores on a desperate mission to free her mentor, Hal K'Rin and his elite Tenebrea guard from their imprisonment at Kaldara--a prison planet left over from the Jod's ancient "clan wars." If Andrea fails, all those she has come to admire and respect face certain, agonizing death from the effects ofdeborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-877085222003-01-19T19:43:00.000-08:002003-02-23T12:59:30.000-08:00The Coming
This novel by Joe Haldeman is strange. I don't know if I liked it or not. Having never read anything by Haldeman in the past, I didn't quite know what to expect. In this novel, astronomer Aurora Bell discovers a message from outer space. It simply reads "We're coming." After the message is verified as genuine (ie, that it is actually coming from light years out), the world goes a deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-874026892003-01-13T21:33:00.000-08:002003-02-23T12:59:51.000-08:00Entering Tenebrea
This book one of the Tenebrea Trilogy by Roxann Dawson and Daniel Graham introduces us to Andrea Flores who in just a few short minutes on a pier at Baltimore Harbor loses her husband and young daughter in a gruesome, seemingly mindless massacre. Disillusioned by failure of authorities to provide rational answers to the deaths, Andrea turns to K'Rin, a Jod who has taken her deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-871670612003-01-09T07:02:00.000-08:002003-01-09T07:02:37.000-08:00Hey, Have I already met my goal for January
Yes! I have. That means I can start on the three I brought home from the library yesterdayEntering Tenebra by Roxann Dawson (of ST: Voyager fame) and Daniel GrahamGateways: What Lay Beyond by various authorsThe Coming by Joe Haldeman.deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-871666942003-01-09T06:52:00.000-08:002003-02-23T13:00:14.000-08:00A Free Man of Color
This novel by Barbara Hambly is a murder mystery sent in pre-civil war New Orleans. Benjamin January is newly returned from Paris after 16 years. He is readjusting himself to a social heirarchy that is based on the color of the skin, or rather, how on much "white" blood you inherited from your parents. In this society, as the author points out in her introduction:Light skin deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-870835732003-01-07T15:57:00.000-08:002003-02-23T12:36:18.000-08:00How To Eat Like a Thin Person
by Lorraine Dusky and JJ Leedy, MD
I found this book at the used book store, and it is a keeper. I was especially drawn to it because I have recently started a weight loss program and I have often asked myself the question "How do thin people stay thin?"
This book doesn't exactly answer that question, but it gives oodles of sage advice on how to overcome the deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-868836062003-01-03T09:42:00.000-08:002003-02-23T13:00:39.000-08:00The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter
A Treasury of Myths, Legends, and Fascinating Facts
Myth has always fascinated me. Though considered fantasy by today's standards, at one time myth was used to explain the way the world worked. This book shows how common myth, etc, underpins the imaginary world of Harry Potter.
Some entries in this book include "Did Alchemists Really Search for a Magic Stone?"deborahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02231286673176142169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-864366212002-12-23T07:12:00.000-08:002002-12-23T07:13:05.000-08:00I've met my goal for December
That pleases me. I have read three books so far this month. Well, to be honest, I should count A Matter of Profit as 1/2 of a book since it was written for readers ages 9-12. But, I'm not going to! Now I can start another book. Yea!Deborahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-864359322002-12-23T06:48:00.000-08:002003-02-23T13:01:34.000-08:00A Matter of Profit
This young adult novel by Hilari Bell is quite compelling reading.
Ahvren is a young man in search of himself. He is a Vivitar (warrior) who is sick of war. His people, the Vivitare have just conquered the T'Chin Confederation. Or, as Ahvren disgustedly thinks, the T'Chin surrendered to the Vivitare without a fight, marking them in Ahvren's mind as cowards (but to the T'ChinDeborahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-862712212002-12-19T06:51:00.000-08:002003-02-23T12:41:43.000-08:00Destiny's Way
This novel is number 14 in Star Wars: The New Jedi Order series (although it is actually number 15 if you count the ebook Recovery). It's author, Walter Jon Williams does a fine job of representing the Star Wars universe. He finds just the right balance between characterization and action (though the battle scenes with the Yuuzhan Vong do run on a bit too much for my taste).
Deborahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-861350142002-12-16T15:24:00.000-08:002003-02-23T13:02:00.000-08:00Solaris
The book by Stanislaw Lem is a strange story of how the planet Solaris tries to communicate with the humans on the science station that observes it. Of course, at first the scientists don't realize that is what is happening when apparitions appear and attach themselves to the three remaining scientists, the fourth having committed suicide in an apparent effort to escape the apparition Deborahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4030632.post-861321382002-12-16T14:25:00.000-08:002002-12-17T23:31:58.000-08:00Reasons
The plan behind this blog is to prod myself into reading more novels than I am right now. Currently I read about one novel each month. That is a sad thing because I used to read a couple of books a week (or more) - easily. A poll I saw recently said that the average person read an average of two books a month. I think I can read three books a month, so that is the goal I have set for Deborahnoreply@blogger.com