Being a time machine technician isn’t as exciting as you think. Especially in Minor Universe 31, where everyone keeps trying to change the past and tearing holes in the world. But at least it’s a job, so Charles isn’t complaining. And at least he’s got TAMMY, a computer program with low self esteem, and Ed,…
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Review: Death Comes to Pemberley
It is autumn 1803, six years after the events of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth is finally settling into her role as mistress of Pemberley, and is glad to have her sister Jane nearby. But the evening before the annual Lady Anne ball, the house is thrown into chaos when Lydia Wickham appears on…
Review: Agnes Grey
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the link or image to join in the fun!) When her family’s financial situation becomes impossible, the young Agnes Grey hires herself out as a governess. The families for whom she works and the children she teaches are uniformly terrible,…
Review: The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities
Dr. Lambshead would be considered by many to be an eccentric. A lifetime collector of the bizarre and grotesque, Lambshead was a meticulous researcher who enjoyed lending out his acquisitions. It has been suspected by many, however, that Lambshead held the strangest pieces of his collection in an underground lair only he could enter. It…
The Three Musketeers (DNF)
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge.) “First published in 1844, Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling epic chronicles the adventures of D’Artagnan, a gallant young nobleman who journeys to Paris in 1625 hoping to join the ranks of musketeers guarding Louis XIII. He soon finds himself fighting alongside three heroic comrades—Athos,…