I was determined to finish this book before the end of Halloween which I have now done. This is my bonus book to wrap up the RIP Challenge, which, along with everyone else, I thank Carl for hosting. I’ve had fun reading all my spooky books and reading what everyone else thought of spooky books [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Kate Summerscale
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Kate Summerscale, nonfiction, rip iv challenge, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher, Victorians on October 31, 2009 | 18 Comments »
I love my grandmother
Posted in Misc. on October 31, 2009 | 14 Comments »
All of them actually. I have three. Because I’m just lucky like that. And they are all fantastic in different ways. But in this case I am referring to my mother’s mother. For one thing she is beautiful – we are always inspecting her wedding pictures and things when we come to visit her, and [...]
Some books I have read before
Posted in Reread, tagged Amelia Peabody, Caroline Stevermer, Crocodile on the Sandbank, Elizabeth Peters, fantasy, for young people, historical fiction, Magician's Ward, mysteries, Patricia C. Wrede, Sorcery and Cecelia on October 27, 2009 | 32 Comments »
REREADING IS AMAZING. Sometimes I forget how many amazing books I have already read, because I am busy reading new books, which are also (sometimes) amazing. But this is what I’ve been reading lately.
Magician’s Ward, Patricia C. Wrede
Much like Mairelon the Magician. Too many names of people, but I don’t care because I am more [...]
Silent in the Grave, Deanna Raybourn
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged Deanna Raybourn, glbt, historical fiction, mysteries, Silent in the Grave on October 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
My fourth book for the RIP Challenge, because apparently I just cannot get it together to read The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher right now. Silent in the Grave is the first of (so far) three mysteries with Lady Julia Grey, whose husband passes away at the start of this book. After his death, private investigator [...]
It’s National Caps Lock Day today
Posted in Misc., tagged Lord Alfred Douglas, oscar wilde, weird holidays on October 22, 2009 | 18 Comments »
And also, by a wild coincidence? The birthday of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s erstwhile lover, creepy anti-Semitic xenophobe in his middle-ish years, and slightly more subdued jerk after that.
LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS WAS NOT A VERY NICE PERSON. He had an extremely difficult life BUT NOT EVERYBODY WHO HAS A BAD CHILDHOOD TURNS OUT TO [...]
Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from a person, tagged fantasy, for young people, Mairelon the Magician, Patricia C. Wrede on October 20, 2009 | 30 Comments »
Y’all, I’m applying for graduate school. It is stressful as hell. I’m telling you because the more people I tell, the more shaming it would be for me not to go through with it. And yes! I am using shame as a motivator! If it can beat the crap out of me every time I [...]
The Seance, John Harwood
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged creepy, John Harwood, rip iv challenge, The Seance on October 19, 2009 | 14 Comments »
I read this book mostly in bed over several nights, while the weather outside was obligingly turning into fall. Although there are things about the cold weather that are miserable (mainly miserable for my hands and feet, which get very poor circulation as my blood is too busy keeping the rest of me warm like [...]
This week on BTT
Posted in Misc., tagged Booking Through Thursday on October 15, 2009 | 28 Comments »
We’re moving in a couple weeks (the first time since I was 9 years old), and I’ve been going through my library of 3000+ books, choosing the books that I could bear to part with and NOT have to pack to move. Which made me wonder…
When’s the last time you weeded out your library? Do [...]
How it all went down
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged DogEar Reading Challenge, In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan, nonfiction on October 12, 2009 | 33 Comments »
Reading In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan for Jeane’s DogEar Reading Challenge.
I am anxious about food-type books (because I love food), and I was planning to put this off to the very end of October, except someone has a hold on it at the library. So if I don’t read it by 18 October [...]
The Ghost Map, Steven Johnson
Posted in 3 Stars, Heard about from the internets, tagged nonfiction, Steven Johnson, The Ghost Map on October 11, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Don’t you love titles with semicolons? This one’s full name is The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World. In a lot of ways, it’s like And the Band Played On – a medical mystery! The book follows a cholera epidemic in London [...]
