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Friday Cat Blogging – Fang Shui

Phyl — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:10:12 +0000

Always choose freshly washed, neatly folded laundry to nap on. [...]

Shakespeare in Klingon??

Phyl — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:55:51 +0000

For those who don't know Klingon, the actors will be saying their lines in both English and Klingon. And both of them in iambic pentameter. [...]

Friday Cat Blogging – Fang Shui Style

Phyl — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 05:50:06 +0000

Trees are good for their wood energy, unless you climb too high and are unable to get down. [...]

Teaser Tuesday – Six Suspects

Phyl — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:46:27 +0000

And once again it’s Tuesday, and time for the Tuesday Teaser, hosted by MizB at the Should Be Reading blog.

Most people probably know the drill by now, but just in case: you take the book you’re currently reading, find a random page, and post two sentences from the page, as “teasers” to interest people in reading [...]

Book Review – The Feng Shui Detective

Phyl — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:29:58 +0000

This is just the sort of mystery you're looking for if you need a break from the more grim, hard-nosed detectives and assassins, and want something lighter, even a little off-beat. [...]

Orbit’s “Trends in Fantasy Cover Art”

Phyl — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:52:13 +0000

I love that there is someone who actually searches out things like this.

Remember when most covers of science fiction and fantasy novels seemed to feature scantily clothed women (or “better” still, women in clothing that had been torn until it was now scanty), and men with inhumanly bulging muscles and long, suggestive swords?

Orbit Books has had [...]

Book Review: The Black Sun

Phyl — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:22:22 +0000

The Black Sun, by James Twining, is a book with several flaws, yet a lot of intrigue and excitement too. And it’s the latter qualities that make me recommend the book as a fun read if you want lots of mystery and adventure in the world of art theft and politics.

The story, the second novel among [...]

Another book I want: The Great Typo Hunt

Phyl — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:56:17 +0000

Another book I want with a deep, abiding want! The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time.

It’s about two friends, Jeff Deck and Benjamin D. Herson, who drove around the U.S. for a little over two months, correcting typos on commercial signs whenever the owners would let them.

For anyone — [...]

Teaser Tuesday – Merlin’s Ring

Phyl — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:50:38 +0000

Good day! Time for another Tuesday Teaser. This is the famous exercise in which we take our current read, open to a random page, and pull two sentences from it, to use as teasers. This will help our readers decide if the book sounds interesting enough to read themselves. But we don’t take sentences that give [...]

Book Review: Sworn to Silence, by Linda Castillo

Phyl — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:09:41 +0000

The prologue features the pretty grim killing of one of the serial killer’s victims – from the victim’s point of view. There is no sugar coating of any of the murders throughout the story. [...]