Category Archives: recommendations

Book Sample-palooza

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I’m going to have some time to read over my Christmas holiday, so I went through my wishlist and downloaded a whole slew of samples (see below). I will report back once I get through them all! In the meantime, … Continue reading →

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April 2015 Reading Log

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: Lone Wolf (Bluewater Bay Book 4) by Aleksandr Voinov and L.A. Witt is a male/male romance. I’d read one book previously in this series, which focuses on the creative personalities surrounding a series of werewolf books and the television … Continue reading →

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September/October 2014 Reading Log

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I didn’t read very much beyond nonfiction in progress in September. Fanfiction: London Orbital by merripestin (Sherlock) features Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Sally Donovan, and Greg Lestrade trapped together in a car all night, for a case. Snappy dialogue ensues. … Continue reading →

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July 2014 Reading Log

Posted on May 15, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: I finally started to read Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke this month, but ran out of steam, so it’s still not finished. I state that here so I will be ashamed and go back to it, … Continue reading →

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June 2014 Reading Log

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

A note here – I’ve mostly been listing nonfiction books in the month I started reading them, and combining my thoughts from throughout the time I was actually reading it. But I actually spent months reading some of these nonfiction … Continue reading →

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April 2014 Reading Log

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Hooray, now I’m only a year behind! Fiction: Emilie and the Hollow World by Martha Wells was a lot of fun, with a spunky heroine, interesting nonhumans, and lots of steampunk. Wells is one of my all-time favorite fantasy authors; … Continue reading →

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March 2014 Reading Log

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison (galley) – I have known the author online for many years, though we’ve only met in person a few times, briefly. I loved this. Straight up loved it. And since now it’s been … Continue reading →

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February 2014 Reading Log

Posted on April 10, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

Fiction: The Marketplace (Book One of The Marketplace Series) by Laura Antoniou – this was a freebie of a well-known book about dominance and submission. I’d read it back when it came out, but didn’t remember much. Anyway, Submission is … Continue reading →

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Reading Log, September-October 2013

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Victoria Janssen

I haven’t posted anything substantive in this blog in a really long time! Sorry about that. I haven’t been doing a lot of writing, but as usual when not writing much, I have been reading, and I’ve been logging that … Continue reading →

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Some Recent YA Reading

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Victoria Janssen

I read a fair amount of recent Young Adult and Middle Grade books over the last year. These are some of my favorites, in no particular order. Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall is a YA fantasy involving … Continue reading →

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