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I know. I’m a bad blogger. Lately I’ve kind of become a bit of a hermit, but all that’s changing. I’ve missed you guys! My hermit status has been good for quite a bit of reading, so this will be the first of several new book reviews. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom […]
Read More Miss Peregrin’s Home for Peculiar ChildrenMark Haddon’s novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is one of the few books that I would put on a “must read” list for everyone. Honestly, it moved me to tears, and I had to put it down in places because I got a little overwhelmed. This first person narrative, told by […]
Read More The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimeClockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare If you’ve been reading these book reviews, you may have noticed that I jumped over from The Mortal Instruments series to The Infernal Devices series. What can I say? I’m capricious. Actually, I’ve heard from several sources that City of Fallen Angles isn’t actually that great, and that was my […]
Read More The Infernal Devices – Trading Light for DarkDid you think I had stopped reading? Nope, not me. I’m always reading something or other. Calculated in Death, by J.D. Robb in my growing “have -read”. I love this series. Set in the not so distant future, Eve Dallas is a homicide detective in New York City. I’ve lost count of the number of books […]
Read More Calculated In DeathUrban Shaman by C.E. Murphy This is a book that I’ve had my eye on for quite a while. It kept popping up on recommendation lists and in conversations about genres I enjoyed, but I never picked it up for one reason or another. It was that fateful trip to Dallas to Half Priced Books that […]
Read More Urban Shaman: Holey Entertaining MashupCity of Glass by Cassandra Clare So you may have noticed that I’ve become a bit obsessed. I have read nothing else since I picked up the first of the Mortal Instruments series. They really are quite good. If I didn’t know there were two more, I would tell you that City of Glass is […]
Read More City of Glass: A Fragile PeaceCity of Ashes,the second book in Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series, is fast paced, filled with great action, and (my favorite bit) character development. (When I read this, I hear “character development” in a big booming announcer voice, you know the one I mean, right? Every. Single. Time.) As always, I promise not to spoil […]
Read More City of AshesCity of Bones by Cassandra Clare I’m breaking my rules with this book. There is a movie, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, being released in theaters on August 21, and normally I watch the movie first then I read the book. This way I’m not disappointed in the movie and I enjoy the book. Books are […]
Read More Book Before Movie? Movie Before Book? Decisions, DecisionsThe Universe was telling me I had to read Affliction by Laurell K. Hamilton…now….no waiting for the paperback. See, I had a trip to Houston this week, just for the day, and apparently I’m not at my best at 4:30am. On the way, I had work to do, and on the way home I worked […]
Read More Affliction: The Book that Consumed Two Days of My Life…When’s the Next One?Neil Gaiman has gone and done it again. I thought I was finished being impressed with him after I finished Fragile Things. Apparently, I was wrong…like really, really wrong. The Ocean at the End of the Lane is about growing up, wanting to keep some of that childlike wonder, sacrifice, human nature, friendship and family. It is […]
Read More He’s Gone and Done It Again – The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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