Friday Quotes

It's been months since I last did a Friday Quotes post. For a while I thought that I just wasn't coming across any good quotes in the books that I was reading but then I realized that I had actually just stopped looking. When I read a good book I usually lose myself in it completely and only pay attention to the wording if it bothers me enough to jar my concentration.I hadn't realized that good quotes were something that I had to actually look out for, until I stopped doing it. So now I'm determined to start paying more attention and when I come...

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

Todd Hewitt is the youngest boy in Prentisstown and in just a month he will become a man. Todd knows the history of Prentisstown; how the families had arrived twenty years ago from another planet, in search of a place to settle and build a hopeful future. But upon arrival the men caught a virus called Noise which caused their thoughts to float freely in the air, for everyone to hear, and then the women all sickened and died, including Todd’s mother....

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of January 30

This week's list of new releases includes a wonderfully varied selection of books, from mysteries about magical cats (Curiosity Thrilled the Cat by Sofie Kelly) to a biography about Howard Thurston (The Last Greatest Magician in the World: Howard Thurston versus Houdini & the Battles of the American Wizards by Jim Steinmeyer). Some other interesting looking books that caught my eye include License to Ensorcell by Katharine Kerr, which seems...