Lynn Abbey's Blog, page 6

I got this as a Kindle freebie and I was grinding along, hoping for something to click, perturbed that in a book where a more-or-less traditional super-hero trope was supposed to underlie the magic neither the author or her . . . → Read More: Review: The Scent of Shadows

Everything starts somewhere and Carol Berg's novels start with Transformer. Despite being 438 pages long (in the Roc mass market) and the first volume of a trilogy that promises to a world-changing confrontation of good v. evil, Transformer's really an intimate story . . . → Read More: Review: Transformation

Laurie Sutton, good friend and frequent commenter here at the Face has a new book on the shelves!  It's entitled Sword of the Dragon and it's a YA story about Wonder Woman. 

Laurie's a veteran comic-book writer and editor.  She's done DC, she's done Marvel and there's nothing . . . → Read More: Laurie's Got a New Book Out!

When I realized this was a post-ecological disaster, matriarchal, communal story with a crypto-Christian overlay, I almost set the book aside. I'm glad I didn't. Vonarburg put a lot of thought into her world-building and then peoples it with well-meaning, . . . → Read More: Review: The Maerlande Chronicles

When I realized this was a post-ecological disaster, matriarchal, communal story with a crypto-Christian overlay, I almost set the book aside. I'm glad I didn't. Vonarburg put a lot of thought into her world-building and then peoples it with well-meaning, . . . → Read More: Review: The Maerlande Chronicles

I've read so many favorable reviews of this book, so, perhaps I approached it with too-high expectations. In terms of directing my attention to a moment in history that I was dimly aware of . . . → Read More: Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

When I got to my parents' house yesterday afternoon, Mom was outside sweeping the (empty) driveway.  She was adamant that her encounter with the semi hadn't affected her at all physically and I really can't disagree.  Emotionally, she and Dad were are still coming to terms with events, but they're doing . . . → Read More: Mom's doing fine…and the new chair has arrived

Statistically, any day could be a bad news day: the phone rings and a few seconds later your life's crossed a threshold from which there's no going back.  And, statistically, the older you get and the older the people around you get, the better the odds are that any particular call . . . → Read More: Weekend thoughts…

I've been wrestling with some chronic vision issues caused by living in a part of the country that is too bright for my Britain-based genes so I missed this nice mention of Closed Circle over at the Dear Author blog. 

Their tag line includes the dreaded word "romance," but please . . . → Read More: We got a nice plug yesterday…

Jeff Bezos made an announcement a little while ago…

Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Hardcover Books

Since we started Closed Circle, my best guess had been that e-readers like Kindle were going to wipe out the market for mass-market books before they dented hardcovers.  I'd focused on the notion . . . → Read More: I'm Impressed…and a bit taken aback