The Book Blog
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tamaranthI promised a link to my book-blog to one of you last week, and it occurs to me that newer readers might be (happily) unaware of it.
I keep a separate blog for reviews mainly so as to have something sanitised and safe to point to should random people ask me about blogging. Oh, and so the reviews are all in one handy place.
- #01: Explorers of the New Century -- Magnus Mills
- #02: The Machine's Child -- Kage Baker
- #03: Soldier of Sidon -- Gene Wolfe
- #04: Ink -- Hal Duncan
- #05: Green Angel -- Alice Hoffman
- #06: Witchwater Country -- Garry Kilworth
- #07: He Went With Dampier -- Philip Rush
- #08: Hav -- Jan Morris
- #09: The White Tyger -- Paul Park
- #10: The Pirate Hunter -- Jennifer Ashley
- #11: Coldwater -- Marnie McConnochie
- #12: The Stolen Child -- Keith Donohue
- #13: The Pirate Next Door -- Jennifer Ashley
- #14: At Swim, Two Boys -- Jamie O'Niell
- #15: Dead Deep -- Justin Somper
- #16: Dream Quake -- Elizabeth Knox
- #17: The Care and Feeding of Pirates -- Jennifer Ashley
- #18: Bourbon Street Blues -- Greg Herren
- #19: The Girls -- Lori Lansens
- #20: The Testament of Gideon Mack -- James Robertson
- #21: Five From Me, Five From You -- Shelagh Macdonald
- #22: The Tenderness of Wolves -- Stef Penney
- #23: Gifts -- Ursula LeGuin
- #24: Ghost Riders: Travels with American Nomads -- Richard Grant
- #25: Shooting Elvis: Confessions of an Accidental Terrorist -- R. M. Eversz
- #26: 100 Great Short Short Science Fiction Stories... -- ed. Isaac Asimov
- #27: Scandal Takes a Holiday -- Lindsay Davis
- #28: Cat Confidential -- Vicky Halls
- #29: The Man Who Invented Florida -- Randy Wayne Wright
- #30: The Wave Runners -- Kai Meyer
- #31: Louisa the Poisoner -- Tanith Lee
- #32: Water for Elephants -- Sara Gruen
- #33: Oddfellows -- Jack Dickson
- #34: The End of Harry Potter? -- David Langford
- #35: One Good Turn -- Kate Atkinson
- #36: The Sons of Heaven -- Kage Baker
- #37: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- J. K. Rowling
I keep a separate blog for reviews mainly so as to have something sanitised and safe to point to should random people ask me about blogging. Oh, and so the reviews are all in one handy place.
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Date: Monday, July 23rd, 2007 05:08 pm (UTC)The tidy up has refreshed my admiration for the Dark Claw series by Shoo Rayner. If anyone ever asks you how to wean a small child onto SF, this is it.
They are for beginner readers and have a tiny vocabulary, small quantities of large text, with lots of the story carried by speech bubbles and captioned diagrams - and a proper, archly knowing storyline. Patrick loved them when he thought he was too cool for all those worthy educational books (but couldn't actually read anything else), and they are so appealing that Owen still enjoys them now he can devour Harry Potter and the Independent!
They open with a Vaderesque Kat named Dark Claw who is out to destroy the Muss, a sweet rodent-like race whose ships navigate by nosar (hence vulnerable to DC's Fworgonzola-powered Stonker Ray). Luckily, a wide-eyed young Muss called Onlee One, together with his friends Hammee and Chin Chee)... OK, you get the picture. It is AMAZING what that man can do with virtually no use of subordinate clauses!
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Date: Monday, July 23rd, 2007 05:43 pm (UTC)He felt fearless! He ran and ran, somersaulting over Robo Kats. None of them could catch him."
Dick and Jane (and whatever your bloody dog was called), Eat Your Hearts Out!
God, I'm so distractable...