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| BookMooching : Going book hunting... | | 27 | Mareofthesea, July 2009 | |
| Lovers of the Paranormal : Favorites - books, series, authors | | 33 | luvtink81, July 2009 | |
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| Romance - from historical to contemporary : What Did You Read in April? | | 4 | bookbeat, May 2009 | |
| The Green Dragon : April Reads 2009 | | 171 | Menelvir, April 2009 | |
| Jim Butcher : Favorite Lines | | 26 | Irisheyz77, April 2009 | |
| Jim Butcher : Dresden Files Series Order | | 26 | sqdancer, March 2009 | |
| Club Read 2009 : Irish's 2009 Reading Log | | 32 | pursuitofsanity, February 2009 | |
... was very bookish :-)
I received books and manga from both my mom (which I knew) and my husband (which I had hoped):
Backup by Jim Butcher
Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow
Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff
Smoke and Mirrors by Tanya Huff
Orphan's Quest by Pat N ... ... many "stand alone" books that I loved this year.
Corambis by Sarah Monette
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher*
Backup by Jim Butcher
The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck
Lover Unbound by J.R. Ward
The book I was most surprised to enjoy this year:
Wutherin ... 82. Seduce Me by Robyn DeHart. 3 stars. Okay paranormal historical romance.
83 BackUp by Jim Butcher. 4 stars. Short and very very sweet. Harry Dresden's big brother Thomas the vampire looks out for his lil bro.
84. The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer. 4.5 stars. For a ... ... thing I'm patient LOL). What I bought:
Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff
Smoke and Mirrors by Tanya Huff
Backup by Jim Butcher
Scarlet and the White Wolf by Kirby Crow
Orphan's Quest by Pat Nelson Childs
Book-worm Droppings: An Anthology of Absurd Remarks Ma ... ... copies of the following:
Smoke and Shadows by Tanya Huff
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Backup by Jim Butcher
Melusine, The Virtu, The Mirador and Corambis by Sarah Monnette
The Horse is Good by Viggo Mortensen
There are a few ... ... Corambis by Sarah Monette.
Smoke and Shadows or Smoke and Mirrors by Tanya Huff.
Blood Rites or Backup by Jim Butcher.
These are all books I've read and really want to collect them in hardcover. I'm actually not too picky about the condition, so long as they're ... ... Monette's Melusine, The Virtu, The Mirador and Corambis along with Jim Butcher's hardcover novellette, Backup.
A couple rarer OOP books I'm interested in are Polymorph by Scott Westerfeld and The Dragon's Horn by Glynnis Kincaid (no touchstone for this one, but ... Oh! Can I add another one to my above request? Backup by Jim Butcher. It is a thin, hardcover urban fantasy that was way over priced upon publication. However, I've taken the book out from the library four times in the last three months and am thinking I should get a copy of my own. ... I had only read the first four books and it had been over a year since I read any at all. Then I impulsively picked up Backup at the library. It was lurrve at first read :-) ... 5:
Blood Rites by Jim Butcher
Corambis by Sarah Monette
Drawn Together (an ebook) by Z.A. Maxfield
Backup by Jim Butcher (the short story that got me interested in picking up the Dresden series again)
I still may get a couple more reads in this month so I'll ... ... adult/contemporary - 4 star
13. Death Masks by Jim Butcher urban fantasy - 4 star
Short novelettes
S 1
S 2
Backup by Jim Butcher
Manga
Our Kingdom Volume 6
Tactics volume 1
Legal Drug volumes 1-3 (re-read)
Earthian volume 3
ebooks
PsyCop: Body and Sou ... I've re-started reading the Harry Dresden books and just finished Death Masks last night. A few weeks ago I picked up Backup which really whet my appetite for continuing the series.
I'm also in the "might go to see" the new Star Trek movie camp. I've enjoyed all the incarnations so far, ... ... I read the Dresden novel before this one so I'm a little lost, but wanted to give the series another go after reading the Backup novelette which I really enjoyed. ... himself did, but overall it was an awesome read. I'm anxiously awaiting the next Dresden Files book. However, I do have backup and both short story collections that contain stories by Jim in my pool on bookswim, so I'm not completely out of new TDF goodness. ... me off.
25) Poem?
La Complainte de Fantômas by Robert Desnos
26) Essay?
None.
27) Short story?
Backup by Jim Butcher. This was the most recent short story I've read and it was pretty good.
28) Work of nonfiction?
There are very few I enjoy. I guess the ... I'm about halfway through Backup, a very short novellette by Jim Butcher based in the Harry Dresden universe. Since I've only read the first three or four Dresden books, and that was over a year ago, I'm a little lost, but I do like the writing style. I picked it up on a whim off of the ... Has anyone here read the novella, Backup? A short story told from Thomas' POV. I read it recently and enjoyed it. Liked seeing the Dresden world from new eyes. My one complaint was that it was too short. All the scenes felt a little rushed an incomplete. Harry's a wizard. A genuine, honest-to-goodness wizard. He's Gandalf on crack and an IV of Red Bull...
Backup, pg 7 
#5 Backup by Jim Butcher
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Review: I really enjoyed this book from the Dresden-verse. This is a short story told from Thomas' point of view. I loved looking at ...
#5 Backup by Jim Butcher
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Review: I really enjoyed this book from the Dresden-verse. This is a short story told from Thomas' point of view. I loved looking at ... I spent today in Dresdenverse Chicago in Backup. 2. Backup by Jim Butcher ... in Many Bloody Returns
"Heorot" - short story in My Big Fat Supernatural Honeymoon
Book 10 - Small Favor
Novella - Backup (not sure where this falls as I haven't read it but it was published between 10 and 11 & is a story from Thomas's POV)
Book 11 - Turn Coat
Book 12 - Changes - ...
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