Category Archives: First Date

The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chronicle Day One and The Wise Man’s Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle Day Two, both by Patrick Rothfuss

Posted on May 3, 2012 by meyoung
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Normally I wouldn’t have chosen to read this book, but a good friend, whose reading taste overlaps with my own to a large enough degree, highly recommended it and, in fact, urged me to read it. She’d never urged me … Continue reading →

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Review: State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett

Posted on June 30, 2011 by meyoung
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What if infertilifty could be cured? What if women could bear children into their 70s? What if women didn’t have to chose between the dictates of their biological clocks and … anything else? The debates philosophical, sociological, anthropological and whateverelsological … Continue reading →

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First Date: Review of Skinwalker by Faith Hunter

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Tricia
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Jessica at Read React Review presented a paper, The Undead in Bioethics and Vampire Fiction, at a conference last fall and posted about it later on her blog. In the comments following the post, I mentioned my discomfort with traditional … Continue reading →

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First Date with Kelley Armstrong or “What I read on my winter vacation an author spotlight by Tricia”

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Tricia
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I have an awesome husband. (I think meyoung, Jules, Lisa, and Tiffany would agree. Sarah and Beth have never met him so I suspect they don’t have an opinion on his awesomeness or lack thereof.) My awesome husband bought a … Continue reading →

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First Date – Meljean Brook Author Spotlight

Posted on September 24, 2010 by Tricia
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I recently read Falling for Anthony and Demon Angel the introductory novella and the first novel in the Guardians series by Meljean Brook. Why did I read these books? Well, because Meljean is pretty great. I entered a contest to … Continue reading →

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