Wednesday, January 25, 2012

If Shakespeare wrote The Three Little Pigs

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A really funny rendition of the Three Little Pigs told in the style of Shakespeare. I have to admit that this skit particularly appealed to me at this time because I'm currently reading Jasper Fforde's The Big Over Easy, which involves a law-suit against the three pigs for premeditated murder of the wolf. Good stuff. ...

Free Read: Northanger Abbey and Angels and Dragons by Vera Nazarian

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If you've been enjoying the recent spate of book mashups then this one is for you: From the author of Mansfield Park and Mummies... NORTHANGER ABBEY AND ANGELS AND DRAGONS Dragons in the skies of Regency England! Gothic horrors collide with high satire in this elegant, hilarious, witty, insane, and unexpectedly romantic supernatural parody of Jane Austen's classic novel. Young and naive Catherine Morland is constantly surrounded by angels...

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Spellbound (Spellwright #2) by Blake Charlton

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Francesca DeVega is a healer in the city of Avel, composing magical sentences that close wounds and disspell curses, but her life is thrown into chaos when a newly dead patient sits up and tells her that she must flee the infirmary or face a fate worse than death. Now Francesca is in the middle of a game she doesn’t understand—one that ties her to the notorious rogue wizard Nicodemus Weal and brings her face-to-face with demons, demigods, and a...

Sunday, January 22, 2012

New Scifi & Fantasy Releases: Week of January 22

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Science Fiction Boneyards Kristine Kathryn Rusch Publisher: Pyr Release Date: January 24 When multiple Hugo Award winner Kristine Kathryn Rusch decided to put her stamp on classic space opera, readers wanted more. Now Rusch's popular character Boss returns in a whole new adventure, one that takes her far outside her comfort zone, to a sector of space she's never seen before. Searching for ancient technology to help her friends find answers to...

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