Update: 6th April 2012

Two books finished since my last update. (“Father, it’s been two books since my last confession.” Sorry, we’ve been studying for Marcus’ First Reconciliation later in the month, and that’s what sprang to mind after I’d typed that first sentence.) I really enjoyed Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin. I’m so glad I finally read it and I rated [...]

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Dream Library, Mary Stewart

As you can see in the photo on the introduction to my dream library page, I have some very ratty copies of some of Mary Stewart’s “gothic” novels. They have recently been rereleased with some very pretty and matching covers. They are British publications and a bit larger than a mass market paperback (5.1″ x [...]

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Mary Stewart

Mary Stewart is one of those authors where I bought everything I could and therefore had too many books to keep up with reading. She wrote mainly what were probably called “gothics” at the time. Today, they would most likely be classed as romantic suspense. She also wrote a trilogy (that expanded to five books) [...]

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Author Reads, An Introduction

Ratty and tatty paperbacks (with one good one for contrast) As I developed my book collection, I bought books however I could. I was young, I didn’t have much money and books weren’t always in print anyway (the latter still being true of course). Often, I would hear about a new author from a friend, [...]

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