It took a little convincing to get me to read this book. I got an email about the book and they almost lost me with “as only a dog could tell it.” A dog telling the story is almost always a recipe for disaster. In this case, instead of disaster, there’s a pretty terrific story and a narrator with an… Read more
Okay, you know how this works. Grab your current read, open to a random page and choose 2 teaser sentences. No spoilers, but they should intrigue us. This week, I’m choosing 2 sentences from a book I haven’t started yet. I hope to finish it up this coming week, while I’m on the road again (back to LA, if you’re… Read more
Marina Marks is a fake psychic. She developed a keen ability to read people as a method of self-preservation – it helped her survive her drug-addicted mother and the string of shady boyfriends that hung around them. Her mother stuck a deck of tarot cards in Marina’s hand and she became a revenue stream, one more way to scrape the… Read more
This lovely Sunday morning, it’s time to take a break from great literature and check out some bad books – really bad books. A friend of mine pointed me to Awful Library Books and I have been laughing ever since! The blog posts actual books from actual libraries (names withheld to protect the guilty) that really, really ought to be… Read more
I love after-the-apocalypse stories. I always have. As a kid, I was always planning for what I would do after the zombies attacked, after the nuclear warheads fell and it was just me and a rag-tag band of survivors. There is something appealing about the start of a whole new world order, a chance to find a different place for… Read more
Words, words, wonderful words! This is one of my favorite weekly memes, since I get to share new words I have learned and learn new words from other bloggers. This week, I’ve got a couple of words from The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. I got this ARC last year… Read more
Good morning and happy Tuesday! I am back on the East Coast (at least this week), so I am hoping to get a few things caught up here around the blog. I had a day off yesterday (and boy, did I need it!), so I’m starting the blogging week off right with my Teaser. This teaser comes from The Lost… Read more
Words, words, wonderful words! This week, I finally had some books that challenged me – and I bet some of them are going to challenge you, too. First, from The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel: 1. Sanguine: “The girl had glycerine eyes and marvelous lips that had no bow but were the shape and colour of a segment of blood… Read more
Gary Gray wants nothing more than to be “normal.” He wants to fall in love, get married, have children, go to church, go to Disney Land and live the American dream. He’s got one little problem, though: he’s in love with his roommate, Russ, and lusting after other men is frowned upon at Southern Florida Christian College. God Says No… Read more
It’s Tuesday and time for another episode of Tuesday Teasers! You know the rules: take your current read, let it fall open to a random page and choose 2 “teaser” sentences to entice us into wanting to read it. No spoilers, please! First, for those of you who were kind enough to comment on last week’s teaser from God Says… Read more