Category Archives: Fiction – Fantasy

Final Thoughts on Diana Gabaldon’s Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (by Bethany)

Please Note: This review speaks candidly about all aspects of this novel, including the ending. If you don’t want to read details about the ending, please do not read this review. I was very happy to finish this novel – … Continue reading

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Casting Call: Lord John Grey (by Bethany)

Do you ever finish a book – or get halfway through it, or finish several books in a series – only to realize that your mind has decided to visualize the novel’s action in a place that is familiar to … Continue reading

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Review of Matt Bell’s In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

I started this book while on my camping trip last week.  Having minimal distractions helped me make fast progress—finished it in five days—but I do think that it would have been helpful to have access to the internet in the … Continue reading

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Checking In on the 18th Century: Thoughts After Reading 37% of Diana Gabaldon’s Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (by Bethany)

So I’ve made some good progress in Written in My Own Heart’s Blood, but I still have my share of complaints. First, though, I’ll tell you what I like about the book. The second section of the novel, the one … Continue reading

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Progress Report on Kim Harrison’s The Undead Pool

Thanks to a poorly timed nap this afternoon, I have less than a hundred pages to go in the latest Kim Harrison book, The Undead Pool, and I still have to exercise and go to bed at a reasonable hour … Continue reading

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Requiem for a Hard Drive, and also my long-awaited review of Kim Harrison’s Ever After

I will not deny that I’m a pretty clumsy person.  I once fell in the shower and broke my finger.  I once fell in the shower and gave myself a giant bruise on my inner thigh.  Last week in Yosemite … Continue reading

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I know, I’m totally milking this book for posts. Part Two of Jill’s review of Kim Harrison’s Into the Woods

Here is some advice to everyone: don’t spend seventy five percent of the drive from Woodland to Sonoma typing on your phone nonstop.  Though I was overall fairly pleased with the post, I had a headache for a while.  I … Continue reading

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On the road to nowhere: thoughts on the first part of Kim Harrison’s Into the Woods

I am going to try posting from the Word Press iPhone app today because the husband and I are driving to parts unknown for an event of extreme importance and I elected to sleep in today rather than rising early … Continue reading

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A (Very Brief) Primer on Kim Harrison’s The Hollows

It occurred to me that it would be a good idea to have a plan of attack for “Blog Post A Day February.”  Posting fourteen posts in twenty-eight days is way the heck more than I’ve posted, like, ever in … Continue reading

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In which Jill revisits a beloved genre and reviews a young adult novel: My review of Libba Bray’s The Diviners

This may be the first teen novel I’ve read since we started the blog.  I admit I’ve avoided them lest our readers think my reading tastes are too pedestrian.  But after a year and a half of doing this blogging … Continue reading

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