Author: James Viscosi

Teaser Tuesday 11/10/15: “Queen of the Tearling”

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So this week I’m reading Queen of the Tearling, by Erika Johanson, because the Calibre Random Book Picker told me to, and I already paid a buck ninety-nine for it a while ago, and Mango Momma advised me too late that I should read the reviews, which to be fair are mostly favorable, except when they’re scathing. (Seriously, read the scathing review — it’s one of the funniest I’ve seen since Meg took down Legon Awakening, a book I didn’t even manage to finish. Go ahead, I’ll wait.)

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Read Some Random Words

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So I have way more books on my e-reader than I can keep track of these days, thanks mostly to BookBub, which means that after I finish one book I have to decide which one to read next. I could do something normal like have them in a first-in-first-out queue, but that would be too easy. So instead I use Calibre to help me pick a new book after I finish one. Because I’m random that way.

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Would you play cards with this man?

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“TWD” Tuesday: RIP* [REDACTED]

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“Scroll down for spoilers, Sweetie.”

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Teaser Tuesday 10/20/2015: “Helen of Sparta”

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So this week I’m reading Helen of Sparta, a historical novel by Amalia Carosella that tells the story of Helen of Troy when she was just plain Helen.

Toga! Toga!
Toga! Toga!

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Uninvited; Or, A New Yorker Cartoon Sums Up My Movie Rating System

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No, not this:

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Teaser Tuesday 10/6/2015: “Pale Queen Rising”

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So this week I’m reading Pale Queen Rising, by A.R. Kahler, in which an assassin from Faerie (who, despite being from Faerie, is not actually of Faerie) is charged by Queen Mab with finding out who is skimming off the top of her harvest of Dream. Which is, apparently, a little bit like skimming meth from Heisenberg. If you’re going to do it, do not get caught.

"Here, falcon falcon falcon ..."
“Here, falcon falcon falcon …”

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Teaser Tuesday 9/22/2015: Still Yet More “Dragonriders of Pern”

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Are you sick of these yet?

“Robinton, you are indeed safely back,” Lessa cried, running toward him, a wide smile lighting her unusual face. “And so tanned!”

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Teaser Tuesday 9/15/2015: Still More “Dragonriders of Pern”!

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Did I mention my Kobo says the original Dragonriders of Pern trilogy 1,200 pages long? That’s long. That’s very long. In fact, it’s so long, here are four sentences for your teaser this week instead of two. But two of the sentences are rather short.

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Teaser Tuesday 9/8/15: (Still) “The Dragonriders of Pern”

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So this week I’m (shocker!) still reading the 800-odd-page long Dragonriders of Pern trilogy — I think I’m somewhere near the beginning of the second book, which begins about seven years after the end of the first one. Thread is still falling, dragons are still (mostly) burning it, and somebody has nice hair.

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