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Vote for ECHO on Goodreads!
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Goodreads is running a poll of the Best Books of 2009 , and Diana Gabaldons AN ECHO IN THE BONE is (as I write this) #15 and climbing. Diana posted this on her blog yesterday: "At a glance, there seem to be a _lot_ of good books listed, and Im honored to be among them." Please spread the word to anyone you ...23 hours ago -
To those of you on Facebook
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The traffic on this site had a HUGE and unexpected increase yesterday, due to the fact that someone posted a link to my "Christmas Quotes" blog entry on the OUTLANDER fan page on Facebook . Lately my site has been averaging about 150 visitors per day. Yesterday, December 23, there were 385 visitors (!), the vast ...2 days ago -
Book Review: The Dragon Book edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
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# Genre: Anthology/Short Fiction, Fantasy # Hardcover: 448 pages # Publisher: Ace Hardcover # Publication Date: November 3, 2009 # ISBN-10: 0441017649 # ISBN-13: 978-0441017645 # Editor Websites: Jack Dann , Gardner Dozois With Wizards master anthologists Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois gave readers a wonderful and ...3 days ago -
Christmas quotes
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Here are some Christmas-themed quotes from the OUTLANDER books. 1) Its hard to imagine, from our 21st-century perspective, anyone losing track of the date this close to Christmas. But Roger had a lot of other things on his mind.... "Whats the occasion? For our homecoming?" She lifted her head from his chest and ...4 days ago -
Dianas latest blog entry
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Check out Diana Gabaldons latest blog post , which explains in detail all the things shell be working on over the coming year, and why it will be a while before we see the next OUTLANDER book. You will get a couple of things in 2010, though: 1) THE EXILE. This is the much-talked-about graphic novel, due out ...1 week ago -
OUTLANDER Links, Part 8: 18th Century Medicine
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I have always been fascinated by the descriptions of 18th-century medicine in Diana Gabaldons books. I think it helps to see pictures of what these things actually looked like. So, here are a few things I found online: I think Daniel Rawlings medical chest (the one that Jamie gave to Claire in DRUMS) must have ...1 week ago -
Bookish Updates
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The Christmas holidays mean I’ll have some time to read. As I indicated in my previous post, I wasn’t getting into We Have Always Lived in the Castle , so I’ve set it aside. I really have been wanting to reread Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, so I downloaded it to my iPhone using the Kindle app. I have to ...2 weeks ago -
Thursday Thirteen
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Here are 13 of my favorite minor characters from Diana Gabaldons books (in no particular order): 1) Mrs. Bug. She always made me laugh. And what happened to her in ECHO was the first of many things I definitely did NOT see coming in that book! 2) Tom Byrd. I love the chemistry between him and Lord John. 3) ...2 weeks ago -
Struggling with Books
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I admit I’m struggling to finish a short book. It isn’t that I don’t like it. I just can’t get into it enough to want to pick it up. Worse, I keep thinking about other books I want to read, and then I tell myself I need to finish that one first. The end result is that I’m doing very little reading. I think ...2 weeks ago -
"Leaf on the Wind" is done!
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Diana announced on Compuserve yesterday that the short story shes been working on, titled "A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows", is completed. She says its about 16,000 words. This story will be published in an anthology titled STAR-CROSSED LOVERS. I have no information about a publication date, but will post here ...3 weeks ago -
Dianas upcoming projects
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Diana Gabaldon posted a list of her upcoming projects for 2010 on Compuserve the other day. These include (in no particular order): The "early phases" of Book 8 LORD JOHN AND THE SCOTTISH PRISONER RED ANTS HEAD (the contemporary mystery novel featuring Tom Kolodzi) OUTLANDISH COMPANION II A short story ...3 weeks ago -
Books I Couldn’t Have Written: Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Series
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Elizabeth Zelvin I’ve been taking a break from mystery reading. Instead, I’ve been rereading the six books in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series, in anticipation of the new one coming out soon. I’m finding them even more absorbing than on first reading, when I hurried through the pages—and there are a lot of ...3 weeks ago -
November poll results
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Here are the results of the November poll. The question was "What was your biggest surprise or shock in AN ECHO IN THE BONE?" There are some major spoilers in these poll questions, so Ill leave some spoiler space below, for those of you who have not yet finished the book. Please take a moment to vote in the ...3 weeks ago -
AbeBooks Holiday Sale of Signed Books
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My all-time favorite used bookstore online is having a Holiday Sale of signed books . I notice there’s a copy of Diana Gabaldon’s latest in the Claire-Jamie series – An Echo in the Bone. Gotta have it!3 weeks ago -
ECHO DER HOFFNUNG is out!
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Today, November 27, is the official release date for the German translation of AN ECHO IN THE BONE, titled ECHO DER HOFFNUNG . Congratulations to Diana, and also to Barbara Schnell, her German translator. Translating a book of that size (and doing much of that translation while Diana was still working on the ...4 weeks ago -
It is Here!
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BOCD An Echo In The Bone by Diana Gabaldon Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But the truth offers little solace, since Jamie realizes he might find himself pointing a weapon directly at his own son-a young ...4 weeks ago -
Thanks from Diana
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I was delighted to see this , from Diana, on Compuserve this morning: I was telling Karen elsewhere that she should be gold-plated and Displayed in Public as the perfect model of The Ideal SL. Wise, tireless, insightful, and patient--and Ive never seen anybody online work harder than she has during the two ...5 weeks ago -
Dianas book-tour is over
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Diana Gabaldons two-month-long book-tour of the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, and Australia came to an end today, and she is back home at last! I am delighted that she has come home for good, because it means that my job as Section Leader in the Diana Gabaldon section of the Compuserve Books & Writers Forum is ...5 weeks ago
