http://graculus.vox.com/library/posts/page/1/ Living in the land where bookworms run free... en Vox Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:00:16 +0100 Copyright 2009 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/technical-difficulties.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/technical-difficulties.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/technical-difficulties.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:00:16 +0100 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/technical-difficulties.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d0110164ca399860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/347-348-butcher-bird-soon-i-will-be-invincible.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/347-348-butcher-bird-soon-i-will-be-invincible.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/347-348-butcher-bird-soon-i-will-be-invincible.html?_c=feed-rss Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:46:17 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d011018002e82860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d011018002e82860e-50si" alt="Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d01101685ea39860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d01101685ea39860c-50si" alt="Soon I Will be Invincible" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/347-348-butcher-bird-soon-i-will-be-invincible.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d0110180ae576860e?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/345-346-shadow-the-sea-of-trolls.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/345-346-shadow-the-sea-of-trolls.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/345-346-shadow-the-sea-of-trolls.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:19:45 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d0110185bad22860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d0110185bad22860f-50si" alt="Shadow (Scavenger Trilogy)" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d0110163c689a860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d0110163c689a860b-50si" alt="The Sea of Trolls" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/345-346-shadow-the-sea-of-trolls.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d011016c88aeb860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/343-344-blood-red-snow-white-crystal-rain.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/343-344-blood-red-snow-white-crystal-rain.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/343-344-blood-red-snow-white-crystal-rain.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:28:09 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d0110163c687b860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d0110163c687b860b-50si" alt="Blood Red, Snow White" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d011016bc3319860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d011016bc3319860d-50si" alt="Crystal Rain" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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. ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/343-344-blood-red-snow-white-crystal-rain.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d011016c4c069860d?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/341-342-death-at-devils-bridge-dead-sexy.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/341-342-death-at-devils-bridge-dead-sexy.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/341-342-death-at-devils-bridge-dead-sexy.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:52:45 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d011017fcb9ce860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d011017fcb9ce860e-50si" alt="Death at Devil&#39;s Bridge: A Victorian Mystery (Prime Crime Mysteries)" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d011016bc0f25860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d011016bc0f25860d-50si" alt="Dead Sexy" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/341-342-death-at-devils-bridge-dead-sexy.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d011016881141860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/339-340-a-matter-of-oaths-the-naming.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/339-340-a-matter-of-oaths-the-naming.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/339-340-a-matter-of-oaths-the-naming.html?_c=feed-rss Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:59:30 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d011016b8ff18860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d011016b8ff18860d-50si" alt="A Matter of Oaths" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d011017facf8f860e.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d011017facf8f860e-50si" alt="The Naming: The First Book of Pellinor (Books of Pellinor)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/339-340-a-matter-of-oaths-the-naming.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d01101684b48b860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/337-338-blue-heaven-the-suspicions-of-mr-whicher.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/337-338-blue-heaven-the-suspicions-of-mr-whicher.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/337-338-blue-heaven-the-suspicions-of-mr-whicher.html?_c=feed-rss Tue, 04 Aug 2009 21:07:50 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d0110167aa770860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d0110167aa770860c-50si" alt="Blue Heaven (Contemporary American Fiction)" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d01101856c271860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d01101856c271860f-50si" alt="The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: or the Murder at Road Hill House" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/337-338-blue-heaven-the-suspicions-of-mr-whicher.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d0110168299a6860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/335-336-a-fatal-thaw-slow-river.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/335-336-a-fatal-thaw-slow-river.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/335-336-a-fatal-thaw-slow-river.html?_c=feed-rss Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:38:56 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d011016b203b6860d.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a6.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d011016b203b6860d-50si" alt="A Fatal Thaw" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d01101854b977860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a7.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d01101854b977860f-50si" alt="Slow River" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/335-336-a-fatal-thaw-slow-river.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d0110163bafb2860b?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/333-334-a-cold-day-for-murder-the-second-summoning.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/333-334-a-cold-day-for-murder-the-second-summoning.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/333-334-a-cold-day-for-murder-the-second-summoning.html?_c=feed-rss Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:04:09 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d01101675604b860c.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d01101675604b860c-50si" alt="A Cold Day for Murder" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d0110184fcce5860f.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d0110184fcce5860f-50si" alt="The Second Summoning, the Keepers (Keeper&#39;s Chronicles)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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'... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/333-334-a-cold-day-for-murder-the-second-summoning.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d0110167eb864860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p> http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/331-332-evans-above-blood-bound.html?_c=feed-rss nobody@vox.com(Graculus) http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/331-332-evans-above-blood-bound.html?_c=feed-rss http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/331-332-evans-above-blood-bound.html?_c=feed-rss Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0100 <p class="enclosed-assets" style="margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d0110162cdce9860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d0110162cdce9860b-50si" alt="Evans above (Constable Evans Mysteries)" /></a> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/book/6a00c22520da72549d0110162cdcfa860b.html?_c=feed-rss" style="float:left; margin-right:6px;"><img src="http://a2.vox.com/6a00c22520da72549d0110162cdcfa860b-50si" alt="Blood Bound (Mercy Thompson)" /></a> <br style="clear:both;" /> </p> 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 ... <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://graculus.vox.com/library/post/331-332-evans-above-blood-bound.html?_c=feed-rss#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c22520da72549d0110167aa75c860c?_c=feed-rss">Send to a friend</a> </p>