I had hoped today to have either a review of J.A. Hunsinger’s Axe of Iron or a guest post from the author. Sadly, I have neither. So I have hauled out my back-up plan and I will be giving away a copy of Axe of Iron to one lucky commenter. You can read more about the book at the publisher’s… Read more
Good morning and welcome to another episode of Teaser Tuesdays! You know how this works: open your current book at random, select two sentences to give us a little taste of the book (no spoilers, please!) and post them here to entice us. This week, I am reading a really great book, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. It’s part… Read more
If anyone needed this self-help book, it was me. I actually have at least one thing in common with author Gail Blanke – both of our mother’s were extremely organized, while both of us struggle to keep ourselves organized. That’s a good start. In addition, as I have mentioned before, I am a packrat. I need to go through things… Read more
My bookshelves are not terribly political. A biography or two, a bit of humor about our political system, but not much else – I figure it’s bad enough I have to see politicians on the news every day, I have no desire to read about them in my leisure time. I accepted The Obama Revolution for review primarily because it… Read more
If all chick lit were this well-written, I would read more of it. This is definitely one to put on your beach-reads list. Lola is funny and engaging, her friends are totally over the top, and her situation is unique enough to be interesting, but in some ways it is all too familiar. It makes for a charming, funny little… Read more
Okay, you know the drill by now: take your current read and open it at random. Select 2 teaser sentences to share – but no spoilers, please! This week, I’m reading The Obama Revolution by Alan Kennedy-Shafer. Not much chance for a teaser there – we know how this story ends! So instead, I picked a few sentences that I… Read more
Many, many thanks to Emily Bryan of Emily Bryan Romance for selecting me for an award! I hosted Emily on her 50 Day Book Tour for Vexing the Viscount and she was an absolute delight! Many of my regular readers chatted with her throughout the day about historical fiction and romance novels and it was really a fun, fun day.… Read more
Somehow, I missed this news when it originally came out. I certainly didn’t recognize the name, and this is definitely a name that more people should recognize. Judith F. Krug died earlier this month of stomach cancer. According to articles in the New York Times and Wikipedia, she led campaigns by libraries to fight the banning of books, and later… Read more
If you’re going to write great cop fiction, you need two things: great cops and great villains. Richard Montanari has both in his Philadelphia police series and his latest installment, Badlands, delivers an exceptionally creepy villain. This particular killer leads detectives on a scavenger hunt around Philadelphia, leaving clues and bodies for them to find. A dead runaway in a… Read more
Happy Tuesday! It’s time for another round of Teasers, hosted by ShouldBeReading. You know the drill: open your book at random, pick 2 (or occasionally more) sentences that should intrigue us but not spoil the plot. This week, I am finishing up An Offer You Can’t Refuse by Jill Mansell. I know, I know, I had promised the review for… Read more