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C.E. Murphy

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C.E. Murphy is a writer of fantasy novels and short stories. She also writes "action-adventure romance" novels under the pseudonym Cate Dermody, which was her grandmother's maiden name.


So last night I was catching up on Guy Gavriel Kay‘s journal instead of going to sleep as I should have been, and I’m skimming along and something italicized caught my eye as I flashed past it:


Meeting Guy Gavriel Kay pretty much turned me into a gibbering idiot. The worst part was that he’s kind of shy, so after I babbled at him I literally couldn’t figure out a way to keep–or more accurately...

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Average rating: 3.87 · 32,030 ratings · 2,394 reviews · 39 distinct works · Similar authors
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Death of a Cad by M.C. Beaton
This one is actually more charming than the first, which was pretty darned good. :)
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Death of a Gossip by M.C. Beaton
I started reading Beaton's Agatha Raisin books last year, and was given a couple of the Hamish Macbeth books at Christmas.

I read them both today. If I had a third on hand, I'd have read it too. Hamish is completely charming, his dialect is brilliantl...more
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City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
read in June, 2013
I read CITY OF BONES in a deliberately deconstructive manner. I wanted to see what worked and why. So this is perhaps an unusually, er, structural, review thingy.

First off, Clare nearly lost me on page three, where the POV character did something to...more
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Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder
Touch of Power (Healer, #1)
by Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
Maria's one of the other Luna alumni who got picked up at the same time I did. She's done a kind of splendid shooting star rise, reaching the NYT with first book, and going on to take the YA world by storm since then.

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Astonishing X-Men by Warren Ellis
Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis
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read in May, 2013
It wasn't as bad as GHOST BOX, but the art, dear God. I'd rather look at Frank Quitely's art, and I really don't like Quitely's art. :p
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Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 6 by Warren Ellis
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by Warren Ellis (Goodreads Author)
read in May, 2013
To my relief, I liked this better than GHOST BOX.
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Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 5 by Warren Ellis
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read in May, 2013
I believe I disliked this more than any other thing I've ever read by Warren Ellis.
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“In Ireland, you go to someone's house, and she asks you if you want a cup of tea. You say no, thank you, you're really just fine. She asks if you're sure. You say of course you're sure, really, you don't need a thing. Except they pronounce it ting. You don't need a ting. Well, she says then, I was going to get myself some anyway, so it would be no trouble. Ah, you say, well, if you were going to get yourself some, I wouldn't mind a spot of tea, at that, so long as it's no trouble and I can give you a hand in the kitchen. Then you go through the whole thing all over again until you both end up in the kitchen drinking tea and chatting.

In America, someone asks you if you want a cup of tea, you say no, and then you don't get any damned tea.

I liked the Irish way better.”
C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

“I'm not a goddamned faith healer! I don't talk to God! I'm a mechanic and her goddamned engine was broken!
--Joanne ”
C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

“friends don't threaten friends' distributor caps”
C.E. Murphy, Urban Shaman

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