Yearly Archives: 2011

Teaser Tuesday: White Sleeper

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Last night, I started White Sleeper by David R. Fett and Stephen Langford, about a white supremacist sect that may be spreading a deadly virus. Gee, that doesn’t sound plausible at all! (Eeek!) You know the rules for Teaser Tuesday: Grab your current read, open to a random page, share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page, BE… Read more

Midsummer’s Eve Hop & Giveaway!

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Welcome to the Midusmmer’s Eve Hop! This is my first Hop and I hope it’s a good one! It’s a great chance to visit other blogs and websites, find some new reviews and win some great prizes. For more info, check out our host, I Am A Reader Not A Writer. There are more than 250 sites participating in this… Read more

Wondrous Words Wednesday

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I have some great new words this week! These are still from last week’s read, Heads You Lose. As I said before, this is a novel written by ex-lovers and their bickering between chapters is the best part. A lot of these words came out of a sort of competitive spirit between them that made the whole thing very, very… Read more

Teaser Tuesday: Blood Trust

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I am about two-thirds of the way through Blood Trust, the third book in Eric van Lustbader’s Jack McClure series. Loved the first 2, loving this one, even though (or maybe because) it’s hard to see my way through the puzzle to a good ending. Gonna be a wild ride! You know the rules for Teaser Tuesday: Grab your current read,… Read more

Wondrous Words Wednesday

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Only one new word for you today –  not exactly a bumper crop. Still, it is a lovely example of someone using a very big word when a very small one actually works better. Show off. This is from Heads You Lose by Lisa Lutz and David Hayward, in one of the chapters written by Hayward: 1. Oleaginous – Falsely or… Read more