I teach Special Education and have three demented dogs. Between my students all day and my dogs all night my stress relief is reading. It is the only thing that keeps me from going crazy. Or should I say from going crazier? I read anything but I prefer fantasy, sci-fi and steampunk. I also love urban fantasy and historical romances. If it has dragons and magic, vampires and werewolves, crazy machines and corsets or aliens and spaceships then I’m happy. Mix in a Scotland laird or two every once in a while and I’m ecstatic!
About Courtney
I teach Special Education and have three demented dogs. Between my students all day and my dogs all night my stress relief is reading. It is the only thing that keeps me from going crazy. Or should I say from going crazier? I read anything but I prefer fantasy, sci-fi and steampunk. I also love urban fantasy and historical romances. If it has dragons and magic, vampires and werewolves, crazy machines and corsets or aliens and spaceships then I’m happy. Mix in a Scotland laird or two every once in a while and I’m ecstatic!
Here it is! First of all, I want to apologize that this is so late. I seem to have my work schedule and my read-a-long schedule mixed up. The good news is that my paperwork for work was turned in a week early. *grin* I hope you’re enjoying the read-a-long […]
I picked up The Creative Fire, Book One of Ruby’s Fire, by Brenda Cooper with high hopes. A social revolution on a spaceship? Right up my alley. Unfortunately, while the social revolution plot was interesting, there was not enough science fiction to really keep my attention. If you focus on […]
Even though I missed the first novel in Anne Lyle’s Night’s Masque trilogy, The Alchemist of Souls, I still thoroughly enjoyed the second novel, The Merchant of Dreams. I do believe it is necessary to read this series in order to to understand the various nuances of The Merchant of Dreams, but […]
Here it is! The first discussion of our Psy/Changeling Read-a-Long. We are both very excited. Before we get started we want to let you know that we are assuming you have read Slave to Sensation. We talk about what happened so we do give some things away. With that out […]
My rant this week is all about reading too much. Disclaimer: You need to know that I read all the time and I’m a very fast reader. I can usually start and finish a book in the same day. And when I’m on what I like to call a “reading […]
2013 is a busy year for readers of Nalini Singh. She has two new novels coming out in the Psy/Changling series this year! Wild Invitation on March 5th and Heart of Obsidian on June 4th. Now I don’t know about you but I haven’t read the entire Psy/Changling in a few years. […]
I have never read anything by Ekaterina Sedia and I am kicking myself for it. Her anthology Moscow but Dreaming is everything I look for in a book. Even though she only has a few pages to introduce the characters, setting and plot, I always felt connected. Every story just […]
In which my first rant is about beginnings! My first rant! I’m so excited. It took me a while to pick a topic because I have so many things I could rant and rave about. However, since this is my first rant and the first rant under the new name […]
A girl in a corset plus train tracks and a weird electric light? Sounds like steampunk to me. How Beauty Met the Beast by Jax Garren proves the old adage however, to ‘never judge a book by its cover’. And even though How Beauty Met the Beast isn’t steampunk, I […]
I picked up Karalynn Lee’s Heart of the Dragon’s Realm expecting it to be full of dragons and sword-fights. I was looking forward to an epic story of love and magic. Sadly that was not what I found. There were a couple of sword-fights and a dragon or two appeared but […]