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This year’s Cybil’s reading had the unexpected reaction of causing a bit of brain atrophy. I was reading frantically right up to the last day, and anxiously pestering the postman, waiting for my next book. I feel like I did only a “meh” job of reading, in the end being unable to gain access to forty of the contenders. Because we have such a doughty crew, though, the books ALL got read by at least two people, but still! I wanted to have done better than I did. <\/p>\n

January I took to just relearn to look at words on a page without them swimming around; meanwhile, AF got all thoughty and started rereading Plato’s Republic<\/i> (And today’s UNSHELVED<\/i> is also just for her!!<\/a>). Now that February is on the horizon, complete with flying dragons, the books are calling us back. February brings with it the read-a-bration that is 28 Days Later<\/i><\/a>, and two blog tours. Look for things to be a little busier around here in the coming days. It’s time to set aside the winter blahs and get back to the books!<\/p>\n

<\/a>As I’d thought, Elizabeth Wein’s novel Code Name Verity<\/i> is really, really good… review coming up shortly.<\/p>\n

It’s always a nail-biter, reviewing a book of someone you know and like, and you just end up doing Liz Burns’ patented Hope It Doesn’t Suck<\/i> dance while you read it – fingers tapping, crossed legs swinging, anxiety pouring from every pore.<\/p>\n

Of course it didn’t suck.<\/p>\n

One thing Elizabeth knows how to do (well, she knows how to do more than one thing, but please – this is big) is RESEARCH, research, research. She makes the past come alive, no matter what piece of the past she happens to be into. She immerses herself into her topic – she visited Africa to write her last books — and she pretty well stayed in WWII era – complete with outfits (dolls!!!), old planes, music, etc. — to get into character for writing these. (I’d actually like to see what she would do to write a novel set in modern times — how does one prepare for that?) She is an impeccable historian and her plotting is tight, and … ah. As I said: review to come.<\/p>\n

But, I had to say this: whilst snooping around the web, I found a couple of things that made me laugh — one was a blog post by someone waiting for their copy of Code Name Verity<\/i>. They used the ‘d’ word — as in debut<\/i>.<\/p>\n

People, people, people.<\/p>\n

Google is our friend, all right?
Elizabeth Wein has written SEVERAL other books; please take a moment to check them out, yes? Meanwhile, check THIS out!! <\/p>\n