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October reading: lots and lots
I’ve been reading a lot lately. I think it’s been in reaction to an increase in workload, which has left me clambering for the best kind of immersive entertainment I know. Novels. Lots and lots of...
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What I read in December
Yet again, I read a fair few books in December. In fact, I’ve become somewhat addicted to nose-in-kindle and am at the point where I get a little agitated if I try to take a break. Seriously. I wasn’t...
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Review of Captive Prince and Prince’s Gambit by C.S. Pacat
Captive Prince by C.S. Pacat leapt to the top of my to-be-read pile the instant I heard about it last weekend, because it ticks three of my current preferred boxes: It’s a secondary world fantasy,...
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Book review: Red Dirt Heart sequence by N.R. Walker
Once again celebrating Australian Women Writers, today’s review is focused on the Red Dirt Heart sequence from N.R. Walker. It comprises four m/m romance novels set on a massive cattle station in the...
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Book launch & review: The Secret of Obedience
Happy book birthday to my friend, Liv Rancourt, whose m/m novella The Secret of Obedience launches today. I was lucky enough to read an ARC and it’s wonderful… My review: This exquisite little novella...
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Book review: Carry the Ocean by Heidi Cullinan
About a month ago, everyone I spoke to on a particular Saturday copped an earful about the book I was at that time reading — Carry the Ocean, by Heidi Cullinan. I was about half way through, and...
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Reading highlights from 2015
Well. Another year of obsessive reading. In fact MORE obsessive reading than the previous year. Did I say I was going to ease back? In the past year, I read 128 new novels/novellas, again mainly in the...
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My thoughts on Kings Rising by C.S. Pacat
To start with, I want to say the Captive Prince trilogy is now probably one of my top five fantasy series ever — just for sheer emotional power. After finishing Kings Rising (the third book, just...
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Three romances featuring characters with autism
It turns out that April is World Autism Awareness Month (and World Autism Awareness Day was on 2 April) and it so happens that I’ve recently read some wonderful novels featuring main characters with...
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Priddy’s Tale: book review
Priddy’s Tale is another gorgeous love story from Harper Fox. It’s a fantastical tale about a lost young guy who lives in a Cornish lighthouse and falls in love with a merman. I love this story so...
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Seven Summer Nights – Book Review
Seven Summer Nights is another wonderful novel from Harper Fox — a complex weave of archeological and mythological mystery, the after-effects of war and post-traumatic stress, and a passionate love...
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Reading highlights from 2016 – part 1
Gosh. How many books have I read this year? (So far 235 books and novellas, of which 198 were new and 37 were re-reads… and still counting.) My inner bookworm continues to devour and my finger...
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Reading highlights from 2016 – part 2
Climbing out of my post-Christmas stupor (and read-a-thon), it’s time for the second installment of my annual reading highlights. You can read January-April highlights in the previous post. This post...
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Reading highlights from 2016 – part 3
So the final reading tally for the year is 242 novels and novellas, of which 204 were new (clearly I got some reading done in the last week or so, some of them ‘holiday stories’). I was going to write...
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Reading Highlights from 2017 – part 1 (Three standout authors)
Here we are again at the end of another big year of reading. The total comes to exactly 200 novels and novellas, of which 30 were re-reads. I didn’t reach the same giddying heights as last year (242...
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Reading Highlights from 2017 – Part 2 (Spooky House stories)
Three of my favourite individual books from last year were “spooky house” stories. Two were straight up ghost stories — Spirit by John Inman and Spindrift by Amy Rae Durreson. The third was a different...
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Reading Highlights from 2017 – Part 3 (Final roundup)
It’s time for the third and final post in my 2017 reading highlights. At this point I will explain that for the past couple of years I’ve been keeping a list of all the books I read, assigning them a...
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In mourning for tainted books
I spent about half an hour the other night editing some blog posts to extract references to an author who has recently fallen from grace. And by that I mean splat, ejected from the community, ‘you’re...
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Reading Highlights from 2018
I wasn’t sure whether I was going to write a 2018 Reading Highlights post… but maybe I will, after all. (I’ve just read over last year’s posts and they’re rather a nice record for me!) I’ll keep this...
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