Well, here I am. In the Comic Con waiting room. This is the virtual room where tens of thousands of people “wait” to get into the online Comic Con registration area. Tickets went on sale at 8:00 a.m., and it took me half an hour just to get into the waiting room. When the page […]
In My Mailbox is a weekly event hosted by The Story Siren. This is my first time participating, and I’m quite excited! It’s a fun way to share books that you have received recently. In the past week I have received and am looking forward to reading and reviewing: Embrace by Jessica Shirvington. Release date: […]
OK, no one cares about this but other book bloggers, but I now have my very own, shiny new Blog Button! I don’t know exactly why I need it, but other book bloggers all have them, and they look really cool. I guess my hope is that someone, somewhere will want my button on their […]
It’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, and today’s very frustrating theme is the Top Ten Books you’d save if (insert calamity here). I say frustrating because I do love all my books, and since I’m not the kind of book collector who spends loads of money on first edition The […]
The first in a series, The Awakening of Leeowyn Blake is a young adult fantasy that tells the magical tale of a teenage girl who is not only trying to find her place in the world, but literally trying to find out which world she belongs in. Leeowyn lives in sunny Florida with her mother, […]
I have been a fan of Anne Rice since I discovered Interview With the Vampire back in 1976. In fact I still have the original paperback copy, torn and dog-eared and practically in tatters from many readings. If you have also read this wonderful book, try to remember how it felt to read it before […]
Hitting bookshelves and digital reading devices today is Matt Ruff’s latest, The Mirage, a mind-bending alternate history tale of “what if:” What if the events of 9/11 were reversed, and America attacked Iraq instead of the other way around? Here’s the description from Amazon: 11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the […]
I received a review copy of Curbchek from the author, and was immediately struck by the intriguing cover. Curbchek describes the gritty, day-to-day working life of a cop on the city streets, and that cop’s name is Zach Fortier, just like the author. Now, I’ve actually read quite a few books where the author decides […]
This week I would like to introduce C. G. Bauer, author of Scars on the Face of God: The Devil’s Bible, which was originally published by the now-defunct Drollerie Press in 2008. It has recently been reissued as an e-book, which is lucky for us, because hopefully more people will have the chance to read […]
This Tuesday’s Top Ten theme, hosted by The Broke and the Bookish, is great picks for Book Clubs, a subject that is near and dear to my heart, since I’ve been in a book club for the past six years. My book club has read some of these, and the others are ones I either […]