Just a reminder: you have until midnight tonight (EST) to sign up for my special promotion – win a set of James Patterson YA books. This is a great promotion and the books would make great gifts for any young reader in your life. Don’t miss out! Read more
I got even more books! It’s so nice to be at home and see the UPS man pull up. How to Catch and Keep a Vampire by Diana Laurence. This is the dating guide that Buffy and Sookie need – I am expecting a really fun read. Nibble and Kuhn by David Schmahmann – intrigue and romance at a law… Read more
I haven’t done one of these in a while, but I came back from my trip to a PILE of books! What could be better? Well, I also bought one (just one!) while I was out spending my Barnes & Noble gift card (True Blood, anyone?) Anyway, here’s the lovely pile that accumulated while I was out: Green Eyes in… Read more
I love a good adventure novel! Exploring the Arctic, searching for the source of the Nile, exploring the Amazon basin, all from the comfort of your local library. Most of us will never in our lives go anywhere that is truly unexplored, but I have great respect for the men (and occasionally women) who were unafraid of the unknown. In… Read more
I actually have some words this week! And time to post them! Those don’t always happen at the same time. These come from Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears. It’s 800+ pages and hasn’t been a particularly speedy read so far, but I’m hoping it will pick up soon. 1. Bumptious: Offensively self-assertive. “Mr. Henderson was a young man for his… Read more
Good morning and happy Tuesday! You know how this works – take your current read, open it to a random page and give us a couple of teaser sentences. No spoilers, please, and be sure to tell us what book, so we can run out and buy it. This week, I am still slogging through 800 pages of Stone’s Fall… Read more
I haven’t had any free books here for a while, but I’m going to make up for that today! Today, I’ve got a special promotion – not just one book, but a prize pack of EIGHT books! And not just one winner – TWO winners will receive this bounty of books. To enter, simply leave a comment on this post… Read more
In The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel, Maureen Lindley looks at the life of a notorious Chinese princess from a forgiving angle. Eastern Jewel, also known as Yoshiko Kawashima, was considered quite scandalous in her day: a Chinese princess raised in Japan, a promiscuous young woman who wore men’s clothes, she drank and smoked opium, she spied for the Japanese… Read more
Okay, time for another edition of Tuesday Teasers! You know how it works: grab your current read, open it at random and tease us with a couple of sentences. This week, I’m reading Stone’s Fall by Iain Pears. It’s starting off slowly, but there are certainly some good parts to look forward to: “Are you lost for words, Matthew? Do… Read more
It took a little convincing to get me to read this book. I got an email about the book and they almost lost me with “as only a dog could tell it.” A dog telling the story is almost always a recipe for disaster. In this case, instead of disaster, there’s a pretty terrific story and a narrator with an… Read more