I got this as a Kindle freebie and I was grinding along, hoping for something to click, perturbed that in a book where a more-or-less traditional super-hero trope was supposed to underlie the magic neither the author or her . . . → Read More: Review: The Scent of Shadows]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=327 0 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=326 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=326#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:55:15 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=326 Transformation by Carol Berg My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Everything starts somewhere and Carol Berg’s novels start with Transformer. Despite being 438 pages long (in the Roc mass market) and the first volume of a trilogy that promises to a world-changing confrontation of good v. evil, Transformer‘s really an intimate story . . . → Read More: Review: Transformation]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=326 0 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=315 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=315#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:48:03 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=315

Laurie Sutton, good friend and frequent commenter here at the Face has a new book on the shelves!  It’s entitled Sword of the Dragon and it’s a YA story about Wonder Woman. 

Laurie’s a veteran comic-book writer and editor.  She’s done DC, she’s done Marvel and there’s nothing . . . → Read More: Laurie’s Got a New Book Out!]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=315 2 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=306 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=306#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:01:02 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=306 The Maerlande Chronicles by Élisabeth Vonarburg My rating: 3 of 5 stars

When I realized this was a post-ecological disaster, matriarchal, communal story with a crypto-Christian overlay, I almost set the book aside. I’m glad I didn’t. Vonarburg put a lot of thought into her world-building and then peoples it with well-meaning, . . . → Read More: Review: The Maerlande Chronicles]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=306 0 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=304 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=304#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 23:13:11 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=304 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I’ve read so many favorable reviews of this book, so, perhaps I approached it with too-high expectations. In terms of directing my attention to a moment in history that I was dimly aware of . . . → Read More: Review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=304 0 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=303 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=303#comments Tue, 03 Aug 2010 04:26:14 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=303

When I got to my parents’ house yesterday afternoon, Mom was outside sweeping the (empty) driveway.  She was adamant that her encounter with the semi hadn’t affected her at all physically and I really can’t disagree.  Emotionally, she and Dad were are still coming to terms with events, but they’re doing . . . → Read More: Mom’s doing fine…and the new chair has arrived]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=303 6 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=300 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=300#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:31:52 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=300

Statistically, any day could be a bad news day: the phone rings and a few seconds later your life’s crossed a threshold from which there’s no going back.  And, statistically, the older you get and the older the people around you get, the better the odds are that any particular call . . . → Read More: Weekend thoughts…]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=300 10 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=297 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=297#comments Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:51:20 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=297

I’ve been wrestling with some chronic vision issues caused by living in a part of the country that is too bright for my Britain-based genes so I missed this nice mention of Closed Circle over at the Dear Author blog. 

Their tag line includes the dreaded word “romance,” but please . . . → Read More: We got a nice plug yesterday…]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=297 4 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=296 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=296#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:30:01 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=296

Jeff Bezos made an announcement a little while ago…

Amazon.com Now Selling More Kindle Books Than Hardcover Books

Since we started Closed Circle, my best guess had been that e-readers like Kindle were going to wipe out the market for mass-market books before they dented hardcovers.  I’d focused on the notion . . . → Read More: I’m Impressed…and a bit taken aback]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=296 10 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=295 http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=295#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 06:37:48 +0000 Lynn http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?p=295

Today (well…yesterday, I’m running late…again) was Elaine’s birthday.

Continuing a tradition….I knit her a sock

Just one.  Her feet are significantly smaller than mine, so I can’t test the fit by tugging the sock-in-progress over my own foot without stretching it out of shape.  (I also have to resurrect . . . → Read More: Happy Birthday!]]> http://lynnabbey.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=295 5