Review: The Ascent by Ronald Malfi
Title: The Ascent Author: Ronald Malfi Publisher: Medallion Press Date (to be) Published: September 2010 Synopsis: After the death of his wife, successful sculptor Tim Overleigh trades in his lucrative career for the world of extreme sports. But when a caving accident nearly ends his life, Tim falls into a self-destructive downward spiral. On the cusp of losing his […]
Treasured Thursdays — Beggars in Spain
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 4. Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress Synopsis: What if people no longer […]
Review: low red moon by Ivy Devlin
Title: Low Red Moon Author: Ivy Devlin Publisher: Bloomsbury Date (to be) Published: February 2011 Synopsis: (from Publisher) A heart-stopping tale of love, death … and fatal attraction The only thing Avery Hood can remember about the night her parents died is that she saw silver – deadly silver, moving inhumanly fast. As much as she wants […]
Review: The Clockwork Man by William Jablonsky
Title: The Clockwork Man Author: William Jablonsky Publisher: Medallion Press Date (to be) Published: September 2010 Synopsis: (from Publisher) Ernst’s world is one of endless admirers, including foreign dignitaries and heads of state. Hailed as a marvel of late nineteenth-century automation, he is the crowning achievement of his master, Karl Gruber. A world-famous builder of automated clocks, Gruber has reached […]
Review: In the Belly of Jonah by Sandra Brannan
Title: In the Belly of Jonah: A Liv Bergen Mystery Author: Sandra Brannan Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Date (to be) Published: September 2010 Synopsis: (from Amazon) In the Belly of Jonah is a fast-paced mystery with a likable protagonist and an intricately woven narrative brimming with bizarre yet believable twists. The first in a series, the book expertly lays the groundwork […]
Review: An Unfinished Score by Elise Blackwell
Title: An Unfinished Score Author: Elise Blackwell Publisher: Unbridled Books Date (to be) Published: April 2010 Synopsis: (from publisher) As she prepares dinner for her husband and their extended family, Suzanne hears on the radio that a jetliner has crashed and her lover is dead. Alex Elling was a renowned orchestra conductor. Suzanne is a concert violist, long unsatisfied with […]
Review: Cheap Cabernet
Title: Cheap Cabernet Author: Cathie Beck Publisher: Hyperion Books Date (to be) Published: July 2010 Synopsis: (from Amazon) I didn’t know that people come into our lives, and sometimes, if we’re terribly lucky, we get the chance to love them, that sometimes they stay, that sometimes you can, truly, depend on them. Cathie Beck was in her late […]
Review: It Just Hasn’t Happened Yet
Title: It Just Hasn’t Happened Yet Author: Karin Anderson, Ph.D. Publisher: Clifton Hills Press Date (to be) Published: June 2010 Synopsis (from Amazon): It Just Hasn’t Happened Yet presents a new angle sorely needed in the Self-Help/Relationship genre–one that counteracts the tired; clichéd messages women typically field e.g. “You’re too picky! You’re too needy! You’re too neurotic, which is […]
Review: The Day the Falls Stood Still by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Title: The Day the Falls Stood Still Author: Cathy Marie Buchanan Publisher: Hyperion Books Date (to be) Published: August 2009 Synopsis: (From Amazon) Steeped in the intriguing history of Niagara Falls, this epic love story is as rich, spellbinding, and majestic as the falls themselves. 1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. Seventeen-year-old […]
Friday Flops — The Weekend
Fridays are all about books that I so wanted to love, but in the end, they just weren’t up to snuff for even a mediocre eh. 2. The Weekend by Peter Cameron was actually the book that inspired this series way back when I read it and didn’t even have a blog. This little ‘gem’ was in the Bargain […]
Treasured Thursdays — Frankenstein
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 3. Frankenstein. Need I say more? Surprisingly, especially given my love of macabre/science/horror/etc., […]
Review: Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
Title: Wildthorn Author: Jane Eagland Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Date (to be) Published: September 2010 Synopsis: (from Publisher’s website) They strip her naked, of everything–undo her whalebone corset, hook by hook. Locked away in Wildthorn Hall–a madhouse–they take her identity. She is now called Lucy Childs. She has no one; she has nothing. But, she is […]
Treasured Thursdays — Generation X
What is Treasured Thursdays? A weekly installment of books that have affected me so deeply that I cannot bear to part with them. Each week I will showcase one book from my permanent collection and tell you why it holds it place in my library. 2. Douglas Coupland’s first book, Generation X, was not a book I expected to […]
Review: Hatter Bones by Jeremy NeeDLE
Title: Hatter Bones Author: Jeremy NeeDLE and Paul Jessup, Editor Publisher: Evil Nerd Empire and BookSurge Publishing Date (to be) Published: June 2009 Synopsis: (from Amazon.com and the introduction to the anthology) At first you may think that this is all disconnected, that all the stories in this collection contain no thread between them, contain no underlying […]
Review: Moo.com
A number of months ago while I was still in Brooklyn, I ordered some business cards from a website. I can’t recall who it was now, but let’s just leave it at they were awful to work with and the cards were not good. So I’ve been wanting to get some cards made up for the upcoming events (BEA […]
Thoughts on my current read, The Handmaid’s Tale
There are times when I feel like I just cannot keep my eyes open a minute longer even though I’m very close to finishing a book. This is what happened to me last night as I was trying to finish reading The Handmaid’s Tale. Little did I know, but I only had about a dozen pages left in the book. I’m writing this […]
Friday Flops — Wormwood Nevada
Fridays are all about books that I so wanted to love, but in the end, they just weren’t up to snuff for even a mediocre eh. 1. Wormwood, Nevada by David Oppegaard becomes my first in what I hope is not a long list of failures. I truly wanted to like this book. I loved his first book, The Suicide Collectors, […]
Review: Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning
Title: Darkfever Series: Fever Series Author: Karen Marie Moning Publisher: Dell Date (to be) Published: August 2007 Synopsis: (from author’s website) MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she […]
Review: Admit One by Emmett James
Title: Admit One Author: Emmett James Publisher: Fizzy Pop Productions Date (to be) Published: February 2010 Synopsis: (from OnlinePublicist) First set in Croydon, South London, in the 1980s, ADMIT ONE, details how Emmett James escaped the pains of adolescence by going to the cinema. With wry, self-deprecating humor and observation, the author reflects on, obsesses over, […]
Review: Ex-Libris by Ross King
Title: Ex-Libris Author: Ross King Publisher: Penguin Books Date (to be) Published: 1998 Synopsis: (from the Publisher’s website) A cryptic summons to a remote country house launches Isaac Inchbold, a London bookseller and antiquarian, on an odyssey through seventeenth-century Europe. Charged with the task of restoring a magnificent library destroyed by the war, Inchbold moves between Prague […]
Status Update First Third of the Quarter
So let’s look in and see how I’m doing on my goals for this quarter: Career: While I haven’t sent out my resume as much as planned, I did land a contract position, and now that I have a few weeks under my belt here, I am going to start sending it out again, updated, in the hopes of finding a permanent […]
Review: Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Title: Giovanni’s Room Author: James Baldwin Date (to be) Published: January 1964 Synopsis: from Wikipedia David, a young American white man whose girlfriend has gone off to Spain to contemplate marriage, is left alone in Paris and begins an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni. The entire story is narrated by David during “the night which is […]
Review: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
Title: The Art of Racing in the Rain Author: Garth Stein Publisher: Harper Collins Date (to be) Published: May 2008 Synopsis: (from Publisher’s website) Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely […]
Review: Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
Title: Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, Book 3) Series: Vampire Academy Author: Richelle Mead Publisher: Razor Bill Books Date (to be) Published: November 2008 Synopsis: (from Publisher’s website) What if following her heart means Rose could love her best friend forever? Rose Hathaway knows it is forbidden to love another guardian. Her best friend, Lissa—the last Dragomire princess—must always […]
