I do love Neil Gaiman… “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.” – Neil Gaiman, author of short fiction, novels, comic books and graphic novels Read more
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Guest Post: Virginia King, author of The First Lie
Another guest post! You might remember that a short time back, I ran a link to a survey run by author Virginia King. Well, she decided on a title and she put together a great guest post for us on why she always cries at the end of her novel… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Crying at the End I always cry at the… Read more
New on the Shelves…
I’m pretty sure I remember requesting this one. I like a good murder mystery and I have high hopes for Painting With Fire: An Artistic Murder Mystery by K. B. Jensen: Claudia Wilson never quite trusted her roommate, an artist named Tom. After finding a body buried in a snow bank outside her front door, her suspicions about his eccentric behavior… Read more
Guest Post: Deborah Crombie, author of The Sound of Broken Glass
I’ve got a great guest post for you today from the author of a mystery series I really enjoy! Deborah Crombie, author of The Sound of Broken Glass has a post for us and I learned something surprising – she’s not British! I wouldn’t have guessed, reading the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James stories, that they were written by an American. So,… Read more
New on the Shelves…a little romance
I know I didn’t request this one – I never review romance and I didn’t read the first book in the series. But who knows? I like the cover and it might make a good beach read. Anyone have a recommendation one way or the other about Inked Armor by Helen Hunting? In this follow-up to Clipped Wings, the emotional love story… Read more
Quotables
“Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom. But reading is still the path.” – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist and author Read more
New on the Shelves
Now, originally I got this confused with the movie of the same title, but Far North by Marcel Theroux is a very different story. Doesn’t mean they could make a movie out of it with Sean Bean, though. IJS. My father had an expression for a thing that turned out bad. He’d say it had gone west. But going west always… Read more
New on the Shelves
Birthdays of a Princess by Helga Zeiner: One October morning, Melissa watches a breaking news story on television. A young girl has been filmed by bystanders, committing a brutal assault in broad daylight in a downtown Vancouver Starbucks … and it looks like the girl is her daughter. From this moment on, a story unfolds, so shocking, that it will… Read more
Quotables
“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.” – Logan Pearsall Smith, American essayist, critic and snob Read more
New on the Shelves…
Another title from my personal library, Long Knives by Charles Rosenberg: Jenna James’s life has been smooth sailing since she left the high-powered law firm of Marbury Marfan. She’s happily ensconced as a professor at a prestigious law school, where she’s well liked by her students, coupled-up with a handsome colleague, and on track for tenure. But things take a shocking… Read more