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Technical difficulties...

2009-09-04T18:00:16Z

My book blog is on hiatus at the moment, as Vox's connection with Amazon is busted, which was the main reason I was blogging over here - I'm still reading away, just need to wait till it's fixed so I can catch up with myself. See you on the flips...

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347. & 348. Butcher Bird & Soon I Will Be Invincible

2009-08-31T11:46:17Z

Butcher Bird by Richard Kadrey - picked this one up as a free ebook somewhere, can't quite recall where... The basic premise of Butcher Bird is that our protagonist, Spyder, helps run a tattoo parlour in Los Angeles and one day discovers that th...

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345. & 346. Shadow & The Sea of Trolls

2009-08-27T23:19:45Z

Shadow by KJ Parker - this is the first book in a trilogy, which I picked up from my local library, having tried to read something else by this author and found it hard going. Sadly, though I made it further through this than the previous book, I...

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343. & 344. Blood Red, Snow White & Crystal Rain

2009-08-19T21:28:09Z

Blood Red, Snow White by Marcus Sedgwick - I've read a couple of other books by Sedgwick, prior to picking this one up from my local library branch, and it seems to be the case that either I enjoy them or can't finish them. This was the latter. ...

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341. & 342. Death at Devil's Bridge & Dead Sexy

2009-08-15T15:52:45Z

Death at Devil's Bridge by Robin Paige - this is the fourth book in Paige's long-running series featuring Kate Ardleigh and Sir Charles Sheridan, happily stumbling across murder and mayhem in Victorian England. It follows on from Death at Daisy's...

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339. & 340. A Matter of Oaths & The Naming

2009-08-09T10:59:30Z

A Matter of Oaths by Helen Wright - I'm always on the look-out for free science fiction ebooks and this particular one was recommended by Jo Walton, whose writing I also like, over on the Tor books blog. The basic premise of A Matter of Oaths is...

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337. & 338. Blue Heaven & The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

2009-08-04T20:07:50Z

Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan - given that I don't read a great deal of non-genre fiction, I thought I'd give this one a try as the blurb sounded interesting... Philip Cavanaugh, living in New York, gets a shock when he hears rumours that his former...

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335. & 336. A Fatal Thaw & Slow River

2009-08-01T13:38:56Z

A Fatal Thaw by Dana Stabenow - this is the next in the Kate Shugak series, following on from A Cold Day for Murder, which I reviewed earlier this week. This time around, Kate finds herself in the middle of what's going on, as she is the last pe...

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333. & 334. A Cold Day for Murder & The Second Summoning

2009-07-29T22:04:09Z

A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow - this was one of the (many) books I brought back with me from my trip to Arizona earlier in the year, the first book in a series that looked interesting. Kate Shugak, former investigator for the Alaska DA'...

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331. & 332. Evans Above & Blood Bound

2009-07-24T09:11:40Z

Evans Above by Rhys Bowen - picked this one up as a bookswap, as I'm always on the lookout for first books of new series so I can try stuff out... There's a comment on the cover of Evans Above that likens the series to the Hamish Macbeth novels ...

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