Friday Finds

Hosted by Should be Reading I had read a couple of books this week that I really enjoyed and wanted to tell you about but with my kids home for summer vacation I just wasn't able to find the time to write any reviews. Hopefully I'll manage to do so next week. In the meantime, here are a few books that I added to my TBR pile this week. A couple of Books on the Nightstand recommendations that I really want to read: The Reading Promise: My Father...

Ethan of Athos by Lois McMaster Bujold

Dr. Ethan Urquhart is an obstetrician on the isolated, all-male planet of Athos where women are forbidden and infants are conceived in uterine replicators. Since the establishment of the planet, two hundred years ago, the same ovarian culture has been used for the reproduction of infants, but now those cultures have begun breaking and must quickly be replaced in order to keep the population from dying out. New ovarian tissue is ordered by mail...

New Scifi and Fantasy Releases: Week of July 24

Wow, I don't remember the last time that I put together a New Releases list that contained so many books that I wanted. I just want to warn you right now, reading this list may put you in danger of some serious overspending. Although I'm not usually a YA urban fantasy reader one of the books at the top of my list this week is Supernaturally, Kiersten White's sequal to Paranormalcy, which I had really enjoyed.  A new book from Juliet E. McKenna,...