Disclaimer: I voted for Carla Hall for Fan Favorite on Top Chef. I loved Carla’s attitude and I loved the look of her food when she was on Top Chef. I always prefer the low-drama, high-teamwork folks who are focused on the cooking. Because of that, I was really excited to check out Carla’s cookbook. Now, I am always a little… Read more
It’s Friday and that means that, as usual, I’m letting someone else do the work for me! Today, I’ve got a guest post from Will Milar, author of Infernal Machines (A Vintage Horror Novel). With horror novels, I am always interested in why someone chooses to write horror, what drew them to the genre and made them decide that was the… Read more
I get a lot of review requests – A LOT. Most of them, I have to decline just because I can’t spend all my time reading, even if I wanted to. But sometimes, even when I have to turn a request for a review, I find that I want to tell people about the book anyway. That’s the case with Upload… 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 comes from The… Read more
I haven’t been very good about keeping up with my library lately. Books keep pouring in – I am the luckiest girl on the planet – and I hardly have time to add them to LibraryThing, let alone tell you about them. But today, I’ve got a few great titles from the last few weeks. The Art of Thinking… Read more
Here’s what’s coming up on the site this week: Monday: My weekly preview, plus a little about some new books that came in this week. Tuesday: Teaser Tuesday! I’m in the middle of The Last Kind Words by Tom Piccirilli. Terrific book and there are some great bits to share with you. Wednesday: Wondrous Words Wednesday – I am bound to… Read more
I love this comparison! One of the great things about a used book is that it has had a life before it came to you. Someone bought it and read it; it spent time on someone else’s nightstand next to their bed or in their backpack. Maybe they read it on their couch or flew with it to another continent.… Read more
Saturday Snapshot is hosted by Alyce at At Home with Books. To participate, post a photo that you (or a friend or family member) have taken then leave a direct link to your post in the Mister Linky. Photos can be old or new, and be of any subject as long as they are clean and appropriate for all eyes… Read more
Today, I’ve got a 2-chapter Sneak Peek from author Bret Jordan. At the bottom of the post, you can read Chapter 1 and Chapter 7 of his book, Clockwork Dwarf. (How can you resist that title? You know you want to look.) Here’s a bit about the story: Gustov Stoneheart is an unlikely hero, a dwarf who’s magically torn from friends… Read more
Waiting for Sunrise by William Boyd is the story of Lysander Rief, a London stage actor who has come to Vienna in search of a cure for his sexual problems. He gets his cure, although not quite in the way he planned. Rief meets a crazed woman in his psychiatrist’s office, a Miss Hettie Bell, and from that moment on,… Read more