My first 50 book post
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valarltdI'm off to a slow start.
4) Taste Test: Blue Collar from Torquere Press. I'm cheating here. One of the four stories was mine, but the other three were new. We have a trucker and his mechanic lover, a drummer who is rescued late at night by a tow-truck driver and a bike mechanic who falls for the owner of a classic. And my own about Privateer Lines' pressgang tactis for new drivers. All very readable, hot and entertaining.
3) The Fever Tree and Other Stories of Suspense by Ruth Rendell. Oh wow. Murder and other horrors in small town Britain. These are like arsenic-laced bonbons, needing to be savored one at a time, each a small jewel in storytelling. The title story is reminiscent of Bradbury's "The Veldt."
2) The Dr. Fell Series by Syd McGinley: Pet sitting, Samhian & Solstice, from Torquere. Wonderful, wonderful. John Fell is grieving for his lover, bashed to death, when he sort of falls into the role of Top for a group of his friends, who send their boys to him when the boys are troublesome. Written in first person present tense, the style may be off-putting, but they are well-worth persevering.
1) Strange Candy by Laurell K Hamilton. Not bad. Not as dreadful as I feared, but she feels, somehow secondhand and threadbare on several of the stories. My first LKH.
4) Taste Test: Blue Collar from Torquere Press. I'm cheating here. One of the four stories was mine, but the other three were new. We have a trucker and his mechanic lover, a drummer who is rescued late at night by a tow-truck driver and a bike mechanic who falls for the owner of a classic. And my own about Privateer Lines' pressgang tactis for new drivers. All very readable, hot and entertaining.
3) The Fever Tree and Other Stories of Suspense by Ruth Rendell. Oh wow. Murder and other horrors in small town Britain. These are like arsenic-laced bonbons, needing to be savored one at a time, each a small jewel in storytelling. The title story is reminiscent of Bradbury's "The Veldt."
2) The Dr. Fell Series by Syd McGinley: Pet sitting, Samhian & Solstice, from Torquere. Wonderful, wonderful. John Fell is grieving for his lover, bashed to death, when he sort of falls into the role of Top for a group of his friends, who send their boys to him when the boys are troublesome. Written in first person present tense, the style may be off-putting, but they are well-worth persevering.
1) Strange Candy by Laurell K Hamilton. Not bad. Not as dreadful as I feared, but she feels, somehow secondhand and threadbare on several of the stories. My first LKH.
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Date: 2008-02-19 02:39 am (UTC)LKH is also what got me hooked into comics...that and the Marvel Civil War that happend, what 2 years ago? I only got about 6 issues, my oldest followed the War to the bitter end.
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Date: 2008-02-19 02:45 am (UTC)Comics never really interested me much.
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Date: 2008-02-19 12:53 pm (UTC)Thanks Angel!
I was a little under-whelmed by the first Anita Blake. I expected more after all the hype. I think if I'd just stumbled on the book, I'd have liked it a lot more.
And if you like Ruth Rendell, try her alter-ego, Barbara Vine. Downrighty creepy and nifty!
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Date: 2008-02-19 01:08 pm (UTC)It'll get its own entry.