Something you may have picked up upon over the last several months is that the background image each month changes to display the cover of our book club reading. Knowing that you have wondered why the current image still reflects our last selection (Devil in the White City) and not our current selection (Bitter Seeds). Well, its not for lack of trying. I have uploaded an image of Bitter Seeds, yet it won't change. If you look deeper into the design settings, it shows the cover of Bitter Seeds as the background. I have even deleted the Devil in the White City cover from the blog's image files, yet it remains.
To Be Continued...
Saturday, September 8, 2012
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
September Book of the Month: Bitter Seeds by Ian Tregillis
Via goodreads.com
It’s 1939. The Nazis have supermen, the British have demons, and one perfectly normal man gets caught in between
Raybould Marsh is a British secret agent in the early days of the Second World War, haunted by something strange he saw on a mission during the Spanish Civil War: a German woman with wires going into her head who looked at him as if she knew him.
When the Nazis start running missions with people who have unnatural abilities—a woman who can turn invisible, a man who can walk through walls, and the woman Marsh saw in Spain who can use her knowledge of the future to twist the present—Marsh is the man who has to face them. He rallies the secret warlocks of Britain to hold the impending invasion at bay. But magic always exacts a price. Eventually, the sacrifice necessary to defeat the enemy will be as terrible as outright loss would be.
Alan Furst meets Alan Moore in the opening of an epic of supernatural alternate history, the tale of a twentieth century like ours and also profoundly different.
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