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This Past Weekend

6 December 2010 Jackie 3

If you tried hitting LE this past weekend, you probably notice you weren’t able to. On Friday, my hosting service killed the connection due to the amount of resources I was using.  What this means is that I either have a lot more lurkers than I thought I did or […]

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Blue Moon by L. Handeland

6 December 2010 Casey 0

One of the ways I can always tell I’m going to love a book is if I fall hook, line and sinker for the first line and don’t resurface until the very end. Lori Handeland’s Blue Moon sucked me in and I didn’t want to try to leave the seductively […]

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Sunday Surprise!

5 December 2010 Jackie 0

The Textile Planet by Sue Lange Immediately following Marla Gershe’s nonexistent coffee break at three in the afternoon, a policeman shot her through the mid-section with one of those newfangled xanthan guns. That simple act changed her life forever. Actually, her life had been changing slowly over the previous few […]

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Winter’s Passage by J. Kagawa

5 December 2010 Casey 0

I’m Team Ash all the way, so when I first realized that Winter’s Passage, a short novella between The Iron King and The Iron Daughter by Julie Kagawa, was about Meghan and Ash’s journey to the Winter Court, I was excited. Finally, Ash and Meghan would get some one-on-one time, […]

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Warrior by Z. Archer

4 December 2010 Casey 2

Apart from Lisa’s review, I’d heard nothing but wonderful things about Warrior by Zoe Archer. So I decided to read it to see how good it really was. Unfortunately, Warrior didn’t live up to its reputation. The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain […]

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Escapist Newsletter (Vol 4 Issue 12)

3 December 2010 Jackie 3

News from LE During the holidays, I’m raising money for the charity Child’s Play.  I asked a few authors to help support the cause and ended up with over 100 books to give away – the vast majority of them signed too.  The contest ends December 25th, so there’s still […]

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Clockwork Angel by C. Clare

3 December 2010 Casey 2

The long-awaited Clockwork Angel, the first book in The Infernal Devices, the prequel trilogy to Cassandra Clare’s the Mortal Instruments trilogy, won’t disappoint her fans nor turn away the new readers. Tessa Gray descends into Victorian London’s dark underworld to search for her missing brother, with the mysterious Shadowhunters as […]

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The Iron King by J. Kagawa

2 December 2010 Casey 7

The first novel in Julie Kagawa’s Iron Fey series, The Iron King, had a hint of Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland, a pinch of Disney’s Peter Pan, a dash of Melissa Marr’s Wicked Lovely series, a splash of C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe and a sprinkling of Jim […]

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New Author Challenge 2011

2 December 2010 Jackie 4

It’s that time of year again – where reading challenges for 2011 are popping up and people begin looking to see what they want to do.  Back in 2008, I challenged myself to read over 50 new authors and managed to do 56 that year.  For the third year in […]

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New Author Mini-Challenge: Men in UF

1 December 2010 Jackie 3

It’s the last month of the year long New Author Challenge, so let’s go out with a bang. For the final New Author Mini Challenge, the goal is to read up to 5 new UF novels that are MALE dominated. The novels have to either be written by or star […]