It’s Friday, so I’ve got company here on the Shelves. Today, I’ve got a guest post from Erica Lucke Dean, author of To Katie with Love, about Chick Lit. I don’t read a lot of Chick Lit, but I am a big fan of people reading what they like and I am not one to put down a genre just because… Read more
Maybe I am going to have to add this as a feature. There must be a tumblr for it (there’s a tumblr for everything). But, because I’m in a sharing mood, here’s a hot guy, made even hotter because he’s carrying a book. Now, Matt Bomer is pretty darned hot all on his own, even if he doesn’t bat for my… Read more
Virginia Woolf shows up here on occasion, but in this case, I think she’s dead wrong. “When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have… Read more
Today, I’ve got a great guest post and some terrific pictures from Julie Ann Walker, author of Rev It Up. You know that I don’t really read romance, but I was intrigued by the pitch for Julie Ann’s book and interested in the way she talked about travel. (Regular readers here know how much I love to travel!) Today, Julie Ann… Read more
Now, a special THANK YOU to the good folks at Sourcebooks, the place to go for all your romance reading needs, for sponsoring this giveaway! As we get ready for the release of Thrill Ride, they’re offering a copy of Rev It Up: Black Knights Inc. by Julie Ann Walker, the book where we first meet Rock and Vanessa. The rules are simple:… Read more
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list! This week, my teaser is from NOS4A2… Read more
WordPress and I are not getting along lately. I have had several posts just disappear into the ether. Others, like this one, are scheduled to post and just never appear. My apologies to the good folks at Tor/Forge for missing the review date. Virus Thirteen by Joshua Alan Parry presents a scary vision of the future. Amazing medical advances have… Read more
Here’s what’s coming up on the site this week: Monday: My weekly preview, plus a delayed review of Virus Thirteen Tuesday: Teaser Tuesday – a great teaser from a book I just finished: NOS4A2 Wednesday: Hopefully, I’ll have some new words for you by Wednesday. Thursday: Check in on Thursday for my review of The Best of Punk Magazine. I would call it a… Read more
Considering I just finished reading NOS4A2 at about 2:00 this morning, this is a perfect quote for today: “By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer’s… Read more
One of the most interesting things about sci-fi and fantasy novels is the idea of world building – creating a whole new universe for your characters. You need names and places and rules, rules for your characters to live by and you have to be able to stick to them. So much power! And so much responsibility. Today, I’ve got… Read more