I’m very proud to be a part of the A Wrinkle In Time: 50 Years, 50 Days, 50 Blogs Tour! I first read A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle’s classic book, when I was eight or nine years old. I’ve always been a fan of fantasy and science fiction, thanks… Read more »
Check The Discriminating Fangirl every Tuesday for a list of new science fiction and fantasy book releases! Looks like this week is slow for spec fic, but there are a couple of releases that look good. I’ve had the first book in Amanda Downum’s Necromancer Chronicles, The Drowning City, in… Read more »
There’s a really fascinating discussion going on in my Paranormal Romance group on GoodReads. Linnea Sinclair asked a very interesting, provocative question: Should science fiction romance be part of the paranormal romance genre? Wikipedia, that bastion of always-accurate information, says that paranormal romance “blends the real with the fantastic or… Read more »
Book 6 in the Kitty Norville Series Preorder: On Amazon.com Release Date: 24 February 2009 Description: Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas. Kitty and Ben flee The City That Never Sleeps, thinking they were finished with the dangers there, but the sadistic cult of lycanthropes and their… Read more »
You can download a completely free audiobook version of Neil Gaiman’s short story “A Study in Emerald” from Audible.com. This is an amazing story, a blend of Holmesian mystery and Cthulhu Mythos. Neil read it aloud when I saw him in Washington D.C. a couple of years ago. Check it… Read more »
Midnight’s Daughter by Karen Chance The first book in the Dorina Basarab series, a spin-off of Chance’s Cassandra Palmer series. Buy It Now: On Amazon.com Description: Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Unlike most dhampirs, though, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity. Now Dory’s vampire father has come to… Read more »
I go on vacation and I come back with a dozen new books. That’s my M.O. And since I’ve been doing a lot of traveling, I’ve also been doing a lot of reading. So far this year, I’ve finished Karen Chance’s Midnight’s Daughter, Jenna Black’s The Devil’s Due, and Larissa… Read more »
If I loved this series before, this book proves that I am completely and utterly addicted. I wasted a good hour this morning finishing up this book. I say waste because, er… I should have been writing an essay for my film theory class. But frankly? This book is worth… Read more »
Time for another installment of the Fangirl’s review of The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance! The book info, once more with feeling! Buy it now: Amazon Description: The biggest names in paranormal romance have created a fascinating array of 30 short stories of hot blood and inhuman passions that will… Read more »
I work as a tutor, and it’s getting to that point in the semester when we’re swamped with science papers. Running away with the circus never looked so good. Deep breaths, Fangirl. Deep breaths. I should be writing a short paper on Hitchcock’s Rear Window, but… well, I’m sure you’ve… Read more »
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