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Audiobook Review: The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan

Posted on July 7, 2013 1 Comment

The Dead-Tossed Waves by Carrie Ryan First of all, let me get this out of my system: dead people aren’t tossing anything. They are being tossed. In my head, this book is more accurately titled The Wave-Tossed Dead. Secondly, this was an audiobook listen and while Tara Sands did a good job and her voice […]

Book Review: Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

Posted on July 5, 2013 Leave a Comment

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy Tess’s father, Mr. Durbeyfield, is jokingly told by a minister that his family is the direct lineage of an old, noble family that was once thought to be completely gone. There’s nothing left of the family’s land and fortune, except the family name (d’Urberville). However, Mr. Durbeyfield and […]

Cover Lover: Dag and Fawn

Posted on June 29, 2013 Leave a Comment

Welcome to Cover Lover, a feature on this blog dedicated to book covers! For a long time, I’d wanted a place where I can share some of my favorite covers, or talk about any that might have caught my eye. So when I came across this idea on fellow gamer/book lover Angelya’s site The Oaken […]

Book Review: Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh

Posted on June 27, 2013 Leave a Comment

Ecstasy by Irvine Welsh This book contains three stories that revolve around romance and ecstasy among other things. Lorraine Goes to Livingston is the first story. It was titled a “Rave and Regency” romance. Famed regency romance novel writer Rebecca Navarro (who writes stories such as Lucy Goes to Liverpool and Yasmin Goes to Yeovil) […]

Book Review: Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Posted on June 25, 2013 1 Comment

Seraphina byRachel Hartman Know how I’ve always marveled and pondered the many ways authors handle the subject of dragons? Well, in Seraphina, they are intelligent, possess advanced technology, and have a magical ability that lets them take human form. The book takes place in a world where humans and dragonkind exist in a constant state […]

Book Review: Meeting of the Waters by Kim McLarin

Posted on June 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

Meeting of the Waters by Kim McLarin The meeting of the waters is an actual natural event that occurs in Brazil. It’s where the water from the Solimões River (which is muddy) meets with the dark water from Rio Negro. They run side by side without mixing. I’ve seen pictures of it, but I hope […]

Book Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Posted on March 28, 2013 5 Comments

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion It took me a while to finish this book. Two months to be precise. It wasn’t because I disliked the book. I loved it from the beginning, but I could tell it might make a little more emotional than I wanted at the time, so I set it aside for […]

Archive Book Review: Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines

Posted on January 5, 2013 4 Comments

Libriomancer by Jim C. Hines My rating: 3 of 5 stars Libriomancers have the ability to “pull” things such as objects and even people/animals (albeit, it’s a bit dangerous to pull anything other than objects from the books) from books. Isaac is a libriomancer who has been delegated to a librarian job after something went […]

Book Review: Sorrow’s of Adoration by Kimberly Chapman

Posted on November 15, 2011 Leave a Comment

Sorrows Of Adoration by Kimberly Chapman This is not a book I would have picked up of my own volition, but since it was written by a friend and lent to me by another , I initially started reading it out of that “obligation” of friendship. At 2:00 Wednesday morning, I finally decided I needed to get […]

Book Review: Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler

Posted on November 12, 2011 2 Comments

Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler What a fascinating book. I read Mind of My Mind first, where I met the main characters here, but as that was not their story, they did not have much depth. Reading Wild Seed, it made me somewhat disappointed that they did not have as much to do in […]