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FB Book Club Books Added for 2010/05/10  2010-03-09 06:32:43 d3j 17 0
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FB Book Club Books updated for Jan & Feb 2010  2009-12-15 06:28:32 d3j 31 0
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 Books Added for 2010/05/10 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
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 Dated:  Tuesday, March 09 2010 @ 07:32 AM
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All of the books for this month were liked by those who read them. Yay!


A note: if you get the ebook version of Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler, I found the formatting in the eReader version from fictionwise.com to be horrendous, and I was unable to read it. Ellen on the other hand had the Kindle version and it was fine.

 Books Added for 2010/03/08 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
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 Books updated for Jan & Feb 2010 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
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Also, added link to Amazon Kindle version of Strange Brew that is now available. Still not available in eReader format.

 Aion: Coming Sept. 22 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
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 Dated:  Wednesday, August 19 2009 @ 08:57 AM
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GamingThere is a nice writeup on the updates and features on the release version 1.5 over on Kotaku.

Although I've enjoyed the game and will play it when it arrives, I've been playing a lot of WoW again lately. I've got one character out in one of the WotLK beginning expansion areas, and that has been a lot of fun. I guess what I'm saying is that so far, the one MMO that I keep on going back to seems to be WoW. Everything else has been fun for a while, but then my interest tapers off. And if I go back, re-learning the game seems to be too much work (whereas WoW seems very easy to me to return to). So, I guess we'll see how Aion does, and see if it can become another long-term alternate for me alongside of WoW.

 Books Added for 2009/10/12 Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
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 Aion: Beta Weekend Preview Email Article To a Friend View Printable Version 
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GamingAion is a new MMO coming to the US Sept 22 from NCSoft (Guild Wars, Lineage 2, City of Heroes, etc.) It has been out in Korea for about a year, and I spent some time playing in this last weekend's Beta event.

Aion is rated T for Teen by the ESRB.
The North America site is at: http://na.aiononline.com/en/.
Wikipedia also has an entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aion:_The_Tower_of_Eternity

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Brian read Midnight's Daughter and liked it. He commented that it was better written than then first three Cassandra books by the same author, the main character wasn't whiny, and it tied in well with story references to the other books.

Ditto read and Tracey "Elained" Red-headed Stepchild. Ditto liked it better than Tracey and gave it a minimal recommendation. He thought the author's twist on vamps was different enough to set it apart a bit despite mediocre plot and writing. Tracey got distracted along the way, but was at least interested enough to read the end to find out what happened.

Ditto also read Gabriel's Ghost and Tracey had just started it. Both thought the Sci-Fi world was very well done, especially for an author who is primarily romance. Ditto pointed out that there is sex in the book. He also mentioned that he would probably read the other books in the series.

Tracey called for members to come up with a quote or favorite line from each meeting's books and "bring" to book club next time to share along with the book's discussion.

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Ditto mentioned that The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross was his first published book, and if you can get past the first 40 pages or so, it is pretty good. Ditto also mentioned that other books of his have ties to the world laid out in this book and the agency known as "The Laundry".

Allie liked The Accidental Sorcerer. If I remember correctly, she commented that it was dark, but also that it was humorous. A second book is out at the end of June, and the first book is now available in eBook formats (see updated book list for links).

Kitty and the Silver Bullet had much discussion, along with comparisons to Patricia Briggs and Kim Harrison with Jim Butcher and Laurell K. Hamilton thrown in. Tracey commented that she might have liked the Kitty series better if she had not read Briggs and Harrison first, but there were many comments that the Kitty series gets better as it goes along. FYI: this is the fourth Kitty book to make it into the reading list.

In other news:
  • Simon R. Green's The Spy who Haunted Me is out June 2. This is the third Edwin Drood book (Secret Histories)
  • Marjorie M. Liu's sequel to The Iron Hunt is out June 30, and is titled Darkness Calls
  • Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress book 4 is out July 28, and is titled Destined for an Early Grave

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This Month:2010-04-12
Doppelgangster by Laura Resnick
Inked by Karen Chance, Marjorie M. Liu, et. al.
Three Days to Dead by Kelly Meding

Next Month:2010-05-10
A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin
Spider's Bite by Jennifer Estep
The Dark Storm by Kris Greene

Last Month:2010-03-08
On the Edge by Ilona Andrews
Tempest Rising by Nicole Peeler
This Is Not a Game by Walter Jon Williams

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