2022-11-26 00:22
Lately, all this talk about Robert Jordan has put me in the mood to check out that one copy of his Reagan O’Neal Fallon books my library has to offer. While I’ve always seen/hear… Read More
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2022-11-23 14:00
John W. James and Russel Friedman’s The Grief Recovery Handbook came into my reading life via some conspicuous means a few years ago. There’s a story behind all that–as you… Read More
2022-11-21 14:00
November 15th (which was this past Tuesday) marks a full year since I finished and closed my reading of the final book in The Wheel of Times series, A Memory of Light. Still remember that da… Read More
2022-10-28 00:33
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"It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one year old Viole… Read More
2022-10-09 17:58
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"Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is the reluctant star witness in a sensational murder trial when she receives shocking news. The judge’s sister has been found dead. At first glan… Read More
2022-10-05 21:43
"Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide i… Read More
2022-09-23 12:00
I'm officially calling it. After attempting to read the second-to-the-final book in Madelyn Alt's bewitching cozy mystery series, I've decided I can not take on the penultimate entry nor the… Read More
2022-09-19 12:00
3 Tips for Increasing Your Exposure as an Artist~ Guest Post by Ian Garza of Big On BalanceGetting your work discovered is a life-changing experience, but boosting the visibility of you… Read More
2022-09-17 00:46
SOMEBODY COME OVER HERE AND STOP ME! Dude, listen. I am STILL on this “reaching to reclaim urban fantasy” nostalgic reading kick.Even though half the books I have attempted to re… Read More
2022-09-13 21:43
Tuesday seemed like a day for some minor retail therapy. It appears the stars have aligned for some small, small fortunes.I went to Gamestop early in the afternoon looking for some of those… Read More
2022-09-09 23:53
"New York, 2061: The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service while their souls are slowly but surely de… Read More
2022-09-08 23:12
"When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictabl… Read More
2022-09-08 21:39
"Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. But now she’s been hired by… Read More
2022-09-03 00:31
In all my latest desires to dive back into reading urban fantasy, I've finally fallen onto my copy of Half-Resurrection Blues by Daniel Jose Older. It's the first book in this Bone Street Ru… Read More
2022-08-31 14:51
"Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until a two-bit perp's savage assault left her dead for two minutes. When she comes to in the hospital, she sees things that can only be descr… Read More
2022-08-31 13:48
In my recent travels to help satiate this nostalgic need to read urban fantasy books–per my discovery of the genre in 2007–I have finally read Seanan McGuire's Rosemary and Rue… Read More
2022-08-28 15:31
"The Fallen Gods' War drove the remnants of a victorious army across the ocean in search of a new homeland. A thousand years later, the lifeless continent of Draegora is largely forgotten, a… Read More
2022-08-27 03:02
... Lastest pyschologically thriller, The Wife Before, has been out. I'm late to have gotten my copy, but I have it (can't keep up with everything, man). The synopsis reads as (accordi… Read More
2022-08-23 19:43
Freakin' WOWZERS on this DNF–as of now–experience. I landed on The Sheepfarmer’s Daughter (The Deed of Paksenarrion Trilogy, Book 1) by Elizabeth Moon. The experience didn… Read More
2022-08-22 20:18
"When Aoleyn loses her parents, she is left to fend for herself among a tribe of vicious barbarians. Bound by rigid traditions, she dreams of escaping to the world beyond her mountain home.T… Read More
2022-08-07 21:22
Here we are a year later with the second Inspector Anjelica Henley book, The Binding Room, by UK author, Nadine Matheson. The book came out a few weeks ago in July, but right on time as it f… Read More
2022-06-16 20:07
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This 1974 gem came in the mail today. I’ve been hunting it down for about five months now, unable to commit to the usual $79-$100 price tag this sucker usually costs on second-hand sit… Read More
2022-06-07 23:13
2022-05-15 19:14
We got a coverrrrrrr for 2/2023 J. D. Robb book. This is an Amazon affiliate link to the book Read More
2022-05-10 21:18
2022-05-04 13:00
Her and I didn't always get along. But I've learned to love her. And she has learned to trust me. Well, you know what I mean. The point is that my pre-order for Sara Paretsky's 22nd V. I. Wa… Read More
2022-05-03 21:31
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I don't know how I managed this (besides jumping right into my coffee and reading after work at 6am each day), but I managed to clean house with three Mercedes Lackey trilogy readings. It be… Read More
2022-04-18 21:24
Amazon Affiliate LinkSaturday 4/2/2022 9:53am. Just finished the first 50 pages of Anne Bishop's Daughter of the Blood. "Okay" so far. Lots of hell and Satan and demon talk. Though expressed… Read More
2022-04-05 16:50
Taken from my new journaling about books… I’m doing some whacking this year. Whacking books. Don't work: It's out. Work: You stay. Slowly trying to keep from buying too many boo… Read More
2022-03-31 18:35
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2022 #MarchMysteryMadness Announcement & Latest J. D. Robb & Current Reads ("co-host" W/Sailor Moon)
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All Her Little Secrets by Wanda M. Morris Read More
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Sue Grafton is not only one of my top three favorite authors, but she is my top favorite mystery author. The contemporary female private eye is my favorite sub-genre within the mystery field… Read More
2021-12-28 20:58
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2021-12-19 05:06
Because I love FATAL FRAME Games... Read More
2021-12-18 18:06
This was recorded for a class assignment in creating a mock podcast. And, given I come on social media to talk about books anyway, I decided maybe I could use it for myself. I believe I am i… Read More
2021-12-18 17:11
*In-text links are Amazon affiliateI pretty much had to play buying books by ear this year. With tuition payments blessedly covered, the majority of my book spending was on a desperately nee… Read More
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...LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...! Read More
2021-09-28 20:20
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2021-09-14 15:32
It goes without saying that despite EVERYTHING, READING will ALWAYS be somewhere on my agenda. Including book shopping. Book shopping is therapy. Book shopping is good.&nbs&hell…Read More
2021-09-10 00:11
Where were you when you heard about what happened to Aaliyah?That's the question many fans of hers share; thus, most certainly me included. I remember my first hearing of her death cle… Read More
2021-09-07 00:14
This BABY came in a day early today! China Bayles is back, after her 2019 lukewarm #27 investigation in A Plain Vanilla Murder. Nevertheless, I have a good feeling about Hemlock… Read More
2021-08-28 23:38
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2021-07-02 13:00
Welllllllll, Tracy Clark's fourth Chicago P.I. Mystery called Runner, featuring our sister Cass Raines, is officially OUT. When I write OUT, I mean OUT! As in me walking out of work for the… Read More
2021-06-29 23:09
A young law clerk works for a Supreme Court Justice who falls into a coma. Before his faltering health, he has given guardianship to his unexpected clerk with strict instructions for her to… Read More
2021-06-26 01:12
Sooooooo. As many readers here know, this blog acts as a reading journal of sorts. I document bits and pieces of life and this and that and books and bric à brac. Therefore, quite fre… Read More
2021-06-26 00:38
Day ONE What’s going on with me attempting to read Agatha Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles? I’m 28 pages into the book and find myself uninterested.&n&hell…Read More
2021-06-06 21:28
As I write this, I am ready to crash. I spent all of Saturday and the majority of today (Sunday) writing and beating down a course paper and journal. My plan was to make a lasagna… Read More
2021-06-05 03:59
I had to plot down my thoughts on Goodreads after finishing this book. Very quick, very simply. "One of the elements of crime fiction/mystery novels that appeal to me most i… Read More
2021-05-31 23:36
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2021-04-17 00:28
Okay. Okay. I told myself to take a minute or two out of Friday to write an updated post–or a #FridayReads deal thing. So, while I sit here at a blank page trying to put an essay down… Read More
2021-03-21 23:31
2021-03-21 04:25
The only side effect I'm "suffering" is the bottomless (and perhaps boneless) hunger to stay up late at night reading this amazing-ass book in one last sitting... With that said… Read More
2021-03-16 17:52
"K. leads a double life. Timid office clerk by day, storyteller by night. But not just any storyteller. Transforming into a jackdaw, K. takes secret night-flights around the city, coll… Read More
2021-03-14 07:57
I’m between courses now and decided to spend the week catching up on one of my top favorite fictional cops, Eve Dallas. Undressing this series requires no undressing. I&rsq&hell…Read More
2021-03-02 02:00
Just a friendly reminder, #MarchMysteryMadness starts today. And yet, here are the prompts for this year...For further information you can join #MarchMysteryMadness Discord Group.ENJOY… Read More
2021-02-17 21:48
So, after recently reading the second book in Paula L.Woods’s Charlotte Justice police procedural series, I quickly booted up the laptop to order the final two books. And, well… Read More
2021-02-13 07:17
My sister ordered me a good ole copy of Cicely Tyson's memoir, As I Am, for my birthday. Just waiting on this thing to come on. I put it on hold at the library (with a little beg… Read More
2021-02-09 23:37
More Mercedes Lackey Read More
2021-02-08 17:00
Hee-Haah! I got the final three books in Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time series in hardback the past two weeks. I'm upgrading my collection from the mass market editions. I've lea… Read More
2021-02-07 07:55
2021-02-07 04:20
So I would start a James Baldwin book the weekend before taking my Grandmother to two specialists the following week. Then the week after is my birthday week, as well as my return to the cl… Read More
2021-02-01 19:28
2021-01-31 06:06
So here it is. The truth. I closed out reading Mercedes Lackey’s By the Sword feeling unfulfilled and unmoved by the book. So I'm wary of trying more of Lackey’s work. Don&rs&hell…Read More
2021-01-27 00:06
Listen. I stood at the stove about to reheat some lasagna (with cheap off-brand breadsticks from Wal-Mart and a "girl-bye" to them) when the UPS man delivered this baby to me. The book came… Read More
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LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...!RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 26, 2021 Read More
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