This is the first of my New Year’s Resolutions – to post more regularly on my blog. I’m starting a little something new to start 2010 off right: The Friday Puzzler. My goal is to post a puzzle every Friday and to keep them book related. Now that means I am going to need some suggestions for topics, so if… Read more
Okay, I am hoping to make this a regular feature. I have been composing crossword puzzles for years and now I’ve finally got some software that does all the hard work to let me put the puzzles here on the site. There’s a little Java applet needed to run the puzzle, so there may be a plug-in to download. And… Read more
The picture is from Vladstudio.com. I have a lifetime membership and it was a great investment. Read more
A friend posted this link on another forum and I thought it was too adorable not to share. It’s from the Science Fiction Book Club and apparently it’s true – books soothe the savage beast! Share a book with a friend! Read more
Alone by Loren D. Estleman is a marvelous mystery about the movies. Film archivist Valentino (no first name necessary with a last name like that) specializes in hunting for lost classics and convincing their owners to donate them to the UCLA film school. He doesn’t mean to keep getting mixed up in murders, but with this cast of crazy characters,… Read more
Happy Wednesday! It is freezing cold here in St. Paul, MN and I am huddled around my laptop for warmth. Hopefully, some new words will help warm me up! My words this week are from Alone by Loren D. Estleman. Very funny book about film buffs, so some of the words revolve around movies. 1. Cineastes: A film or movie enthusiast;… Read more
Good morning and welcome to another edition of Teaser Tuesdays! I just finished a really fun book and I am all excited about sharing a Teaser or two! You know how this works: Open your book, select 2 teaser sentences that will make us want to rush right out and read it ourselves, and post them here for us. No… Read more
9 Dragons by Michael Connelly is the latest installment in a series of novels focusing on Detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch of the LAPD. There’s a shooting that may involve a Hong Kong triad, a reluctant partner, a detective from the Asian Gang Unit that Harry’s not sure he can trust. That’s just a typical day for a fictional detective, until… Read more
One of the little perks of business travel is that I can stop my mail – I stop it for a week or two (or three) at a time and when I come home, it gets delivered right to my door. Much easier than running to the mailbox every afternoon! And there are always books. Always books. This trip, only… Read more
Michael Crichton told the kind of stories that grabbed us as readers and that drew us to the big screen. Pirate Latitudes, unpublished at the time of his death in 2008, is just that sort of story — a big, exciting tale of a handsome pirate, a woman scorned, impossible odds and a fortune in gold. You can almost imagine… Read more