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Sum, ergo lego. - I am, therefore I read. Hi, welcome to Ex Libris and thanks for stopping by! I love reading the personal background infos on other blogs, so if you are like me and are curious about the raison d'etre of the blog and the person behind the blog, this is the place :-) Who am I?
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You are here: Blog Gazetteer of the Taiytakei Realm To commemorate the paperback publication of Dragon Queen, which marks the beginning of a brand new series by acclaimed author Stephen Deas, we are honoured to feature a piece on the history of the Taiytakei, the dominant culture in the Dragon Queen series. Read and enjoy. Introduction As I noted in my first essay of […] Help celebrate International Sir Terry Pratchett Day
About « A Striped Armchair
I’m Eva, an amateur reader and full-time library aficionado. Books allow me to transcend my chronic illnesses, and I love to read diversely, in every sense. My taste ranges across fiction and nonfiction, from the just-published to classics, includes a variety of genres, and I can name a favourite author from every (inhabited) continent. My perfect afternoon is spent in my armchair with a fat book, my rescue mutt Thistle curled up in my lap, and huge mug of tea nearby.
Crime + Horror
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent The haunting début that sparked a bidding war and featured on the Waterstones Eleven 2013... Night Film by Marisha Pessl A post-modern thriller from the author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics...
crimetime.co.uk
The Glass Key: Nordic Crime Authors Crossing Swords Nordic cooperation when it comes to crime fiction is blossoming – and the countries are contributing to each others' publications as never before. But on the stage at the Krimimessen crime festival in Horsens, there was still a fierce sense of competition between the candidates for the prestigious Scandinavian crime award The Glass Key, which is handed out in June. On the stage were three out of the four candidates for this year's crime award representing Sweden, Norway and Denmark, as well as last year's winner from Norway, Jørn Lier Horst.
Cold Iron & Rowan-Wood
(Via) It’s The Hobbit – in twelve minutes, from 1966. With a courageous princess (and love interest), no orcs, no riddles, no dwarves, a traditional Chosen One plotline, gorgeous Czech artwork, and a hobbit Macgyver. The changes are really interesting, and in some ways add a bit of coherence to the plot – but then again, part of the charm of The Hobbit is its bumbling, sprawling arbitrariness. In others, they subvert the Professor’s original intent.
Fluttering Butterflies
The Sword of Albion by Mark Chadbourn reviewed on Fantasy Book Review
The year is 1588, and tension runs high between Spain and England. It’s in this world that the spy Will Swyfte makes his appearance. He’s famous throughout all of England for his exploits against the Spanish, but not everything is as it seems… Obscured by history, a race of supernatural beings harasses human kind, by many known as ‘The Fair Folk’, always making plans to wreak havoc. People mysteriously disappear, or get killed in cruel ways. Everybody fears the dark, for that is when they are at their strongest.
PETRONA: Book Review: Blacklands by Belinda Bauer
Blacklands by Belinda BauerCorgi, 2010 Exmoor dripped with dirty bracken, rough, colourless grass, prickly gorse and last year’s heather, so black it looked as if wet fire had swept across the landscape, taking the trees with it and leaving the most cold and exposed to face the winter unprotected. Drizzle dissolved the close horizons and blurred heaven and earth into a grey cocoon around the only visible landmark – a twelve-year-old boy in slick black waterproof trousers but no hat, alone with a spade.
Nayu's Reading Corner
I Want To Read That
NextRead.co.uk
South London Books
Girls Without a Bookshelf
Liz de Jager edejager@imrinternational.com by lynseydalladay Sep 13