Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list! Jewelry from a Grave is somewhere… Read more
“The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.” – Stephen King, author of many of the first really long swallows I ever read Now, this is really something — how many of us know people who have mastered the small sips (magazine articles, blogs, emails) but never the long swallows? I know plenty… Read more
Let’s face it: reading makes you sexy. Heaven knows, I think Tom Hardy is smokin’ hot — I just wish that in this pic, he wasn’t actually smoking. I’m a little afraid the book and the cigarette cancel each other out. Read more
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list! These week, my Teaser is from… Read more
It’s always nice to come home from a trip and find that books have arrived while I was gone – I only wish my postman wouldn’t try shoving them all in the mailbox! He is responsible for more warped pages and bent corners than I care to think about. This week, both books are a bit of a departure for… Read more
I like this idea, that we haven’t really left behind our childhood passions and interests. We’ve just updated them and fitted them into our adult world. “Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven’t grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.” – China Miéville,… Read more
Because a good book can make a man even hotter. I love this picture, mostly because if you had asked me to put together a list of the celebs that might appear here, Ray Charles would not have been on the list. My bad – and I will definitely be more inclusive in my thinking in the future. I think… Read more
Did you know that the gunfight at the O.K. Corral was really fought over a woman? That’s not entirely true, but it’s a big part of the story and one that I had never heard before. In Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp, Ann Kirschner tells a story of the Wild Wild West that was completely… Read more
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. You know the rules: grab your current read, open to a random page and share a two sentence teaser with us (no spoilers!). Be sure to tell us about the book, so we can add it to our TBR list! This week, my teaser is from… Read more
Last week, while I was in Houston, two terrific new books showed up, looking for a spot on the TBR pile. The first (and heaviest!) was The English Girl by Daniel Silva: Madeline Hart is a rising star in British government: beautiful, intelligent, driven to succeed by an impoverished childhood. But she also has a dark secret. She is the… Read more