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C11.  Laris owns the flats where the riots occurred.  Vlad hires Sticks, who has connections with local musicians.  Flats previously owned by Baritt.  Baritt had been assassinated. C12.  Cawti reacts to the riot:  “He’s using our people.  That’s us, Easterners, being set up to be beaten and killed…”  Vlad:  “I hate them…I started ‘working’ so […]

C4.  Description of Adrilankha, noted as the town where Kieron met with the Shamans and made a stand.  “…but Kieron won the battle anyway, thus securing the foundations of an Empire of Dragaerans.  Shame about that.”  Vlad determines to build a spy network, if he gets out of this.  Vlad meets with Morrolan and corrects

I think if you fined me a nickel every time I spelled “Steven Brust” as “Stephen Brust” I’d probably be a poor, poor woman.  Cripes. Yendi is the book that starts out with the onion metaphor. Kragar says that life is like an onion, but he doesn’t mean the same thing by it that I

by David Morrell. This is the original Rambo novel, which a writer buddy loaned me quite a few months back, and which I am just now reaching on my to-read list. I never would have picked this up on my own.  Never. I’m very glad I read it.  It’s not just the story of Rambo,

by Terry Pratchett. I liked Nation, but in a distant, pastel kind of way.  I liked Unseen Academicals much better. One.  Hey!  It’s not just a romance, and a competently written double romance, with four interesting main characters.  This, I might note, is not easy to write, and Terry Pratchett handles it with the facility

by John Scalzi. This book is a pleasant ripoff of Heinlein, with better humor, better writing, better plotting, and a better touch of the perversely funny. Not as touching or moving as Heinlein at the top of his game; no Fridays or Jubals or glorious star-named twins.  But good. Also, check out this opening: I

by Eoin Colfer. You know how I said, for the previous Artemis Fowl book, that the moral of the story wasn’t hitting you over the head or anything? Yeah.  Not the case here. Artemis’s first real caper (before the events in book 1) was to kill the last of a species of lemur, selling it

Blog: Julie & Julia party recipes, round 2 http://foodie.deannaknippling.com/?p=2160 # Got an odd request – need inspirational songs for black humor mayhem. Please send suggestions. # @ianthealy Napalm Death is too much black and not enough humor, but Finntroll will do EXCELLENTLY. in reply to ianthealy # @tafkae Nope, nothing Voltaire yet. Brains! in reply

by David Guterson. I am so far behind on blogging.  Holy cow.  The mystery project is going well, and I wrote my ass off today, but now I want to clean off my desk! I picked up this book from Goodwill a while ago.  Sometimes I like to cruise Goodwill for trade paperbacks that look

I went to the Pikes Peak Writers Spring Workshop on how to hook your readers within 120 words today. I came away with a light in the attic, a threshold cross, the perfect souffle. The intro isn’t perfect, but NOW I HAVE A CLUE on how to open a story.  This, in and of itself,