Posted in Books, Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, New Books, Romance, Science Fiction, Suspense, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult, tagged A Royal Pain, Catherine Asaro, Cry Wolf, Death Angel, Delicious, Eoin Colfer, Eve Kenin, Hidden, Joanne Bourne, Kelley Armstrong, Linda Howard, Linnea Sinclair, Liz Carlyle, My Lord and Spymaster, Never Romance a Rake, Patricia Briggs, Rhys Bowen, Shades of Dark, Sherry Thomas, The Night Bird, The Summoning, The Time Paradox on 28 June 2008 | 4 Comments »
Lots of great books coming out this month!
The Summoning
By Kelley Armstrong
Darkest Powers, Book 1
Hardcover released July 1
Publisher–HarperCollins
New YA urban fantasy trilogy set in the same universe as the Otherworld series
“All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don’t even know what that means anymore. It all [...]
Posted in Books, Review, Science Fiction, TBR Day Review, tagged military science fiction, Tanya Huff, Valor's Choice on 18 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
* Book Read: Valor’s Choice, Book 1 Confederation Series
* Author: Tanya Huff
* Publisher: DAW Books
* Copyright: 2000
* Genre: Science Fiction
Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr was a battle-hardened professional. So when she and her platoon were yanked from a well-deserved leave for what was supposed to be “easy” duty as the honor guard for a diplomatic [...]
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Review, Young Adult, tagged Chosen, House of Night, Kristin Cast, P. C. Cast, Untamed, vampyres on 13 June 2008 | 7 Comments »
Note: If you haven’t read the first two books in this series you should read them before reading this book or this review! I have reviewed both Marked and Betrayed.
Bloodlust and dark forces are at work at the House of Night, and fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird’s adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those [...]
Posted in Books, Fantasy, Review, tagged Charlaine Harris, From Dead to Worse, Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire Mystery series, urban fantasy, vampires on 9 June 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After the natural disaster of Hurricane Katrina and the manmade explosion at the vampire summit, everyone—human and otherwise—is stressed, including Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, who is trying to cope with the fact that her boyfriend Quinn has gone missing.
It’s clear that things are changing—whether the weres and vamps of her corner of Louisiana like [...]
Posted in My Thoughts, tagged 1968, Oregon, Robert Kennedy assassination on 5 June 2008 | 1 Comment »
I saw Robert Kennedy about two weeks before he died. He was campaigning in Oregon and came to our small town in Central Oregon. The high school auditorium was the largest building in the area at that time and a crowd of more than 1,400 people waited, watched and listened to him. Less than two [...]
Posted in Booking through Thursday, Books, tagged reading trends on 5 June 2008 | 4 Comments »
Have your book-tastes changed over the years? More fiction? Less? Books that are darker and more serious? Lighter and more frivolous? Challenging? Easy? How-to books over novels? Mysteries over Romance?
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My reading tastes have changed numerous times through the years. I’ve always read more fiction than anything else although I’ve always enjoyed history–nonfiction histories, historical fiction [...]
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