Books and Reading

Wednesday Fun: More GoodReads

March 9, 2011 Books and Reading

I know. I just talked about GoodReads here last week. But when I wrote last week’s post, I was still doing a lot of stumbling around the site, becoming more and more aware of its potential. I’ve had such a good time since then, discovering all the things I can do there. So I thought [...]

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Review: Blood Oath, by Christopher Farnsworth

March 8, 2011 Books and Reading

What Blood Oath is about: The ultimate secret. The ultimate agent. The President’s vampire. Zach Barrows is an ambitious young White House staffer whose career takes an unexpected turn when he’s partnered with Nathaniel Cade, a secret agent sworn to protect the president. But Cade is no ordinary civil servant. Bound by a special blood [...]

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Reading: Electric Barracuda, by Tim Dorsey

March 7, 2011 Books and Reading

What it’s about: Serge Storms, that lovable one-man thermonuclear vigilante and one-stop all-things-Florida trivia shop, has been leaving corpses strewn across the Sunshine State for more than a decade. The authorities – especially one tenacious FBI agent – have begun to take notice of the mounting body count, and a police task force is being [...]

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Using GoodReads

March 3, 2011 Books and Reading

Last November, I joined GoodReads. I know this mainly because I was roaming around online (doing that procrastination thing, you know), came across a link to GoodReads, clicked, realized I had an account and signed in again. And at the top of the page, it tells me I joined in November. Which is all a [...]

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Inspiration Monday: Word After Word After Word, by Patricia MacLachlan

February 21, 2011 Books and Reading

Word After Word After Word, by Patricia MacLachlan, is, technically, a children’s book. I was charmed by the synopsis when I first came across it while browsing my library’s online ebook collection: Every school day feels the same for fourth graders Lucy and Henry and Evie and Russell and May. Then Ms. Mirabel comes to [...]

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Surburban Spies, A Dead Ex, Wicked Plants, Genius Kids, and The Mystery of the Dead Romance Writer

January 12, 2011 Books and Reading

Wouldn’t you know it? Just as I’m really getting into my blogging rhythm again, my deadlines undergo a mini-explosion and now my January looks very much like my December and November. In other words, lots and lots of work. But, since I really don’t want to lose this new blogging rhythm of mine, here I [...]

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Weekend Cooking: Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar

January 8, 2011 Books and Reading

It’s been five months since both my husband and my daughter decided to give the vegan diet a try. So, how have we been faring as a part-vegan family? My older son happily went off to university, where, by all accounts, he spends his time scarfing down a load of fast food. And my younger [...]

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Review: Virals, by Kathy Reichs

January 5, 2011 Books and Reading

Synopsis: Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage "sci-philes" who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical testing on a nearby island, they [...]

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Happiness Is …

January 4, 2011 Books and Reading

Happiness is finding four boxes of books stored away in a cranny. Sorry for photo quality (dark hallway + iPhone camera). The only catch is, I’m pretty sure these are the books my husband packed away early last year because we were running out of space for things, so now I have to find a [...]

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[TSS] My Year of Creativity

January 2, 2011 Books and Reading

I’m not one to make resolutions – they just don’t work for me. And perhaps it’s a matter of semantics; “resolutions” and “resolve” have a hard-edged feel for me, and I much prefer the softer ease of “intention”. So at the beginning of each new year, I like to make some general intentions for the [...]

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