2009 Books

Another Judith Tarr work, and just as good as the rest. I really enjoy her historical works, although this one is closer to fantasy, as she is building pretty much from a one-line reference to an apparent visit from the Queen of the Amazons. If you like Judith Tarr’s work this is one you will [...]

Katherine Kerr is best known for her fantasy series, the Deverry Books, but she also writes science fiction, and damn fine science fiction it is – for instance I have previous favourably reviewed her novel Snare. This book, Palace, is a collaboration with Mark Kreighbaum. It is set in the far future, when interstellar travel [...]

Return to Del is the triumphant conclusion to the first Deltora Quest series. At the beginning of the series I thought the work was ‘ok’ and an adequate kids book – having worked my way through it, I am absolutely enamoured with the author. The Deltora books are kids books, but they are fine works [...]

Recap: I wouldn’t normally include kid’s books in a ‘what I am reading list’, but I am reading these aloud to my son – if it takes me more than 2 nights to read through out loud, its enough book to include here. This is the 7th book of the series and the action is [...]

This has taken me a while to get through as I have been tired of an evening. I am an old fan of Judith Tarr – she produces wonderful historical fantasy, and this is by no means a lesser work of hers. It is mid way through the 11th century and a bastard duke in [...]

Recap: I wouldn’t normally include kid’s books in a ‘what I am reading list’, but I am reading these aloud to my son – if it takes me more than 2 nights to read through out loud, its enough book to include here. (We finished this last week, but I forgot to update here – [...]

I felt the need for something different this afternoon, a distraction if you will. My daughter recently read through the Sherlock Holmes novels and thoroughly enjoyed them, so I thought they might take my interest too. Having just finished Mercedes Lackey‘s comparatively heavy This Rough Magic, a light read was most welcome, and I ran [...]

I had stopped reading the Deryni series – the principal characters suffer too much when the people around them die. I don’t enjoy it. So I stopped. But the original books were soooo good. So when I came across these volumes I hadn’t read, like Childe Morgan (Vol II) and King Kelson’s Bride (hardly any [...]

Recap: I wouldn’t normally include kid’s books in a ‘what I am reading list’, but I am reading these aloud to my son – if it takes me more than 2 nights to read through out loud, its enough book to include here. We have finished this book now and I really have to say [...]

Recap: I wouldn’t normally include kid’s books in a ‘what I am reading list’, but I am reading these aloud to my son – if it takes me more than 2 nights to read through out loud, its enough book to include here. This is the fourth book in the series and the quality is [...]