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 William… Read more
I don’t generally review a lot of women’s lit, but the story behind Vintage by Susan Gloss really spoke to me. I love the idea that items in a thrift store all have stories behind them! Someone wore the dress you’re trying on, the shoes, the wedding gown; someone sat at the table or read the books. Were those happy times?… Read more
“Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.” – Alice Walker, author and activist A friend of mine jokes that I’m the only person she knows who uses semi colons in text messages. I agree that text speak is damaging our language,… Read more
I don’t think this is one that I requested, but it sounds fascinating. I can’t wait to get a chance to dig into Above by Isla Morley: Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. At first, she focuses frantically on finding a way out, until the… Read more
Just about a year ago, I hosted a guest post from Alison Morton, author of Inceptio. Now the second book in the series, Perfiditas, is on the shelves at your local bookstore, so I thought it would be good to have it on the Shelves here! First, a little about the new novel, the second in the Roma Nova series: Captain Carina… 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 The… Read more
It’s been almost 2 years since I reviewed Deborah Crombie’s No Mark Upon Her. I really liked the dynamic between the key characters, Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James, so I am really looking forward to reading another book in this series, The Sound of Broken Glass: Scotland Yard detectives Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James are on the case in Deborah Crombie’s The Sound… Read more
Last July, I reviewed William Shakespeare’s Star Wars by Ian Doescher, and I am excited to get a chance to review the sequel, William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back: Hot on the heels of the New York Times best seller William Shakespeare’s Star Wars comes the next two installments of the original trilogy: William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back and William Shakespeare’s The Jedi Doth Return. Return to the star-crossed… Read more
Have you noticed that everything is a trilogy these days? I always thought that the way things worked was that you published a book and if it did well, maybe your publisher wanted another. Maybe you could turn it into a series. That seems passé these days – now, everything is a series right out of the box. That’s not always a… Read more
This will be a bit of a departure for me, but I am really looking forward to it! That Old Black Magic is New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark’s savory and suspenseful confection filled with murder, mystery, history and voodoo, in which Piper Donovan must unmask a devious killer striking in New Orleans’s legendary French Quarter. Aspiring actress and wedding-cake decorator… Read more