Posted in Books, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, New Books, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense, tagged A Fatal Waltz, Anne Stuart, Charlaine Harris, Fire and Ice, From Dead to Worse, Julia Quinn, Loretta Chase, Madeline Hunter, Romancing the Dead, Secrets of Surrender, Stephenie Meyer, Tasha Alexander, Tate Hallaway, The Host, The Lost Duke of Wyndham, Your Scandalous Ways on 29 April 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wow, some good books are coming along in May! I’ve already ordered a few of these and look forward to reading these books.
Fire and Ice
By Anne Stuart
5th and final book in the Ice series
Paperback on sale May 1
Romantic suspense
I have enjoyed all the books in this series.
From Dead to Worse
By Charlaine Harris
Southern Vampire (Sookie Stackhouse) [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, tagged Spring on 24 April 2008 | 9 Comments »
Well, here where I live, Spring is sprung–weeks early, even. Our lilac bush looks like it will have flowers by this time next week instead of in the middle of May as usual. The dogwood trees, the magnolia trees–all the flowering trees are flowering. The daffodils and crocuses are, if anything, starting to fade. It [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on 17 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Suggested by Nithin:
I’ve always wondered what other people do when they come across a word/phrase that they’ve never heard before. I mean, do they jot it down on paper so they can look it up later, or do they stop reading to look it up on the dictionary/google it or do they just continue reading [...]
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Review, Romance, TBR Day Review, tagged Elizabeth Vaughan, Warprize on 15 April 2008 | 7 Comments »
My TBR Day review (see the Avid Book Reader blog for more details) for April 2008:
Book Read: Warprize
Author: Elizabeth Vaughan
Copyright: 2005
Publisher: Tor
Genre: Romantic Fantasy
First, let me say I enjoyed this book! I don’t know what I had been waiting for! I read good reviews of the book when it came out and bought all [...]
Posted in Books, tagged libraries, National Library Week on 15 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
This week is National Library Week. Libraries are wonderful resources and we are so lucky when we have free libraries in our communities. When I was a child I could spend all Saturday morning browsing the shelves. However, some libraries where I’ve lived were only open a few hours a week and had very few [...]
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Review, tagged Caitlin Kittredge, Night Life, urban fantasy on 14 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
Night Life opens with Luna Wilder, a young female police officer, arriving at the scene of a homicide of a young female prostitute named Lilia Desko who was also a werewolf. The book is an urban fantasy/police procedural written in first person. It takes place a few days before and during the full moon when [...]
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Review, tagged Howling at the Moon, Karen MacInerney on 8 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
Howling at the Moon: Tales of an Urban Werewolf by Karen MacInerney
I expected an urban fantasy when I started this book. Instead I found an urban fantasy chick lit. I seldom read chick lit. I find it annoying and irritating. The book had an interesting premise–a young career woman who is also a werewolf. I [...]
Posted in Family, Vacations, tagged Washington DC on 4 April 2008 | 2 Comments »
I am in Washington, DC this week with one of my daughters and my husband. My husband has to work unfortunately, but we’ve gotten to do things with him during the evenings. We’ve eaten at some great restaurants–Ethiopian, Spanish Tapas, Turkish, Chinese–and one night we went to The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Bible: The Complete [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books on 3 April 2008 | 4 Comments »
When somebody mentions “literature,” what’s the first thing you think of? (Dickens? Tolstoy? Shakespeare?)
Do you read “literature” (however you define it) for pleasure? Or is it something that you read only when you must?
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I guess I do define literature this way–authors like Dickens, Tolstoy or Shakespeare. I also think of literary fiction which I generally [...]
Posted in Books, Review, Science Fiction, tagged Ann Aguirre, Grimspace on 1 April 2008 | 5 Comments »
Title: Grimspace
Author: Ann Aguirre
Type of book: Science Fiction
Copyright:2008
Publisher:Ace
Why I read this book: I first heard about this book in January at the Dear Author website. They were so enthusiastic about the book I put it on my list of books to buy for February and I’m glad I did. It’s an excellent book!
The book is [...]
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