Yearly Archives: 2015
New on the Shelves…
This one comes from my local library. I heard a bit about it on the radio and was so intrigued I ran right to my computer and requested it: My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege: When Jennifer Teege, a German-Nigerian woman, happened to pluck a library book from the shelf,… Read more
New on the Shelves…
This week in New on the Shelves, I’ve got the final installment in Gillian Philip’s Rebel Angel series, Icefall: Death stalks Seth MacGregor’s clan in their otherworld exile. Kate NicNiven is close to ultimate victory, and she is determined that nothing will keep her from it. Not even the thing that took her soul: the horror that lurks in the sea caves. But… Read more
Review: Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
When is a vampire story not a vampire story? Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie is a story with vampires, but it’s not really about them. It’s about parents and children, and what a parent will do to save their child. It’s about what one is willing to give…and what the other is willing to take. The setting is the small… Read more
Quotables
If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit. –… Read more
Hot Guys with Books
Love the cat, the hat, the coffee, the French brasserie in the background…but the scarf is a teensy bit twee for my tastes. Read more
Quotables
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” – Virginia Woolf, British modernist author Read more
Hot Guys with Books
I can never have too much Tom Hardy, especially with a book Read more
New on the Shelves…
And the latest from my mailbag, The Last Summer at Chelsea Beach by Pam Jenoff: Young Adelia Montforte flees fascist Italy for America, where she is whisked away to the shore by her well-meaning aunt and uncle. Here, she meets and falls for Charlie Connally, the eldest of the four Irish-Catholic boys next door. But all hopes for a future together… Read more
Review: The 6th Extinction by James Rollins
As soon as I read the description of James Rollins’ The 6th Extinction, I was hooked… A military research station buried in the remote Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California broadcasts a frantic distress call that ends with a chilling order: “This is sierra, victor, whiskey. There’s been a breach. Fail-safe initiated. No matter the outcome: Kill us … kill us… Read more