Time Bandit by Andy and Jonathan Hillstrand, the fellas from “The Deadliest Catch.” I picked this up at a book signing at my favorite bookstore, Jospeh Beth Booksellers. These guys know how to do a book signing! Andy and Jonathan were terrific – very funny and very patient. The lines started at about 7:20 for the signing and it was… Read more
This week’s topic: Discussion groups. Do you belong to any (besides Early Reviewers)? Approximately how many? Are there any in particular that you participate in more avidly? How often do you check? On LibraryThing, I belong to/watch/post to What Are You Reading Now?; Early Reviewers; 50 Book Challenge; The Black Orchid (A Nero Wolfe Group); Crime, Thriller & Mystery; Midwestern… Read more
This is the best thing I’ve read from Stephen King in years. Nothing he’s written since The Green Mile kept me as consistently interested and engaged. (Cell was close, but possibly because I liked the idea of all those folks walking along, jabbering on their phones, being slaughtered in one fell swoop; I’m mean that way.) The early King books… Read more
The 19th Wife by David Ebershoff. This is the latest Advanced Reader Edition I’ve received through the Early Reviewer program at Library Thing. I hope to have a review posted here soon, but this one is a hefty 579 pages. Read more
I love Angela Carter’s writing. The stories in this collection are full of atmosphere – dark and moody, sensual, sometimes playful. Here, she takes an assortment of fairy tales and reworks them with a ‘sexier’ and more ‘feminist’ slant. If you know your fairy tales, that might be very effective. Personally, I thought her retelling of Puss-in-Boots was adorable, but… Read more
I’m a day late with this post, but I have always been a procrastinator. As many of my friends know, I am a huge fan of LibraryThing.com, and as part of the Book Blog Roundup there, let me tell you a little about myself and this blog. First, me: I’m 42, so I should know the answer to Life, The… Read more
In the introduction to this book, Christopher Golden says of the author: Joe Hill is one stealthy bastard. Indeed he is. This is a nice assortment of stories – some obviously horror, some strange and disturbing, some rather sweet. The title piece read more like a love story than a ghost story. “Best New Horror” makes me think a bit… Read more
The World Without Us, by Alan WeismanThe Painter of Battles, by Arturo Perez-RevertePopulation: 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time, by Michael PerryThe Terror, by Dan SimmonsThe Monkey’s Raincoat, by Robert Crais Read more
I read this book on a flight between Cleveland and Minneapolis, where I frequently travel on business. I had finished my previous book while waiting to board and opened this one while waiting to taxi – since the first scene takes place on an airplane, it seemed a good omen. Ruth Reichl spent 6 years as the restaurant critic for… Read more
A woman is found wandering along the side of the road, dazed and confused, after a hit and run accident. She tells the police officer at the scene that she is one of the “Bethany girls”, two sisters who disappeared from a shopping mall almost 30 years earlier. But that is virtually all she’ll tell them – she used to… Read more