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I’m Reading: Zombies, Gaming and Legal Shenanigans

January 11, 2012 Books and Reading

Last year was so busy and so chaotic, I really fell behind on my fiction reading, and when I don’t read, I find I’m not as creative as I can be. The ideas don’t come as quickly, and I don’t write as much. I play a lot less and when it comes to doing [...]

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You Know You’re a Big Fantasy Reader When …

October 26, 2011 Books and Reading

One of Ward’s students invited him to a guy’s movie night on the weekend. Ward has been to this student’s house quite a few times before, but that night I received a call from him, asking me to look up the student’s address in his records.
So I did. And then I asked, “Did you forget [...]

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The Passage, by Justin Cronin

June 30, 2010 Books and Reading

I was hesitant about reading The Passage, by Justin Cronin; I loved the premise of the book (a secret government project to create super warriors ends up unleashing a deadly vampiric virus onto an unsuspecting world – I ask you, how could I resist?), but I was uncertain because of the dystopian nature of the [...]

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Audiobook Appreciation

January 11, 2010 Books and Reading

I’m done with this most recent clump of deadlines! I don’t think I’ve worked at quite a pace like this for a long while – it’s been three to four weeks of fourteen hour days. I am very, very thankful for my audiobooks – I think they kept me sane in the midst of all [...]

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Comfort Reads (42nd Bookworms Carnival)

December 9, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

Comfort reads: perfect reading for a cold winter’s night!

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Reading Temptations

October 9, 2009 Books and Reading

I really hate when this happens.
I’ve had Tana French’s The Likeness out from the library for a while now. It’s on its last renewal legs, so to speak, so I’ve got to either finish it up in the next few weeks or it has to go back to the library until I can check it [...]

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Interview: Author Joy Preble Talks About Her Writing Process

September 24, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

An interview with author Joy Preble!

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Kaleb Nation, Author of Bran Hambric, Talks About His Writing Process

September 19, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

"What if your mother was a criminal? What if her crime was magic? What if magic ran in the family?" This is the intriguing premise of Bran Hambric: The Farfield Curse, a middle grade fantasy novel written by Kaleb Nation.
Kaleb initially got the idea for Bran Hambric when he was fourteen years old; he [...]

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Review: Being Nikki, by Meg Cabot

September 7, 2009 Books and Reading

From the jacket flap:
Things aren’t pretty for Emerson Watts.
Em was sure there couldn’t be anything worse than being a brainiac the body of a teenaged supermodel.
But it turned out she was wrong. Because that supermodel could turn out to have a mother who’s gone mysteriously missing, a brother who’s shown up on her doorstep demanding [...]

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Review: The City and The City, by China Miéville

August 24, 2009 Books and Reading

In the European city of Beszel, the body of a murdered woman is found; Inspector Tyador Borlú is assigned the case, but further investigation leads him to believe that the murder is not as routine as it looks at first glance: the woman appears to have connections with the city of Ul Qoma.
This complicates [...]

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Fantasy Road Trip: Libba Bray’s Gemma Doyle Trilogy

August 20, 2009 Books and Reading

My daughter Hayley and her friends recently made a video for Random House’s Fantasy Road Trip video contest:
If you could go on a fantasy road trip with a character (or characters!) from your favorite series, where would you go? What would you do along the way? How would you travel? Create a video and show [...]

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Harry Potter Reading Challenge

July 23, 2009 Books and Reading

I couldn’t resist! And yes, I know I’ve been very derelict in keeping my other reading challenge posts updated. But come on! It’s a Harry Potter reading challenge!
I just couldn’t say no. So I’m signing on for this one.
I’ve read all the Harry Potter books (I can remember waiting by the mailbox, eagerly [...]

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Another Book-Buying Binge! (Or, Why I Shouldn’t Go To Costco Anymore)

July 15, 2009 Books and Reading

Yesterday I accidentally indulged in another book-buying binge. Yes, in case you’re wondering, it was totally by accident. I had no intentions of splurging on anything when I entered Costco.
Unfortunately, since it’s summer, the book section at Costco is a dangerous place for a book lover to be. I think the marketing assumption is that [...]

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Incoming! The City & The City, by China Miéville

July 15, 2009 Books and Reading

Incoming! is a feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles new books that have arrived in the Ms. Bookish household. Here’s one of the latest new arrivals:
The City & The City, by China Miéville
About the Book:
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be [...]

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TBR Discovery: Ysabel, by Guy Gavriel Kay

June 16, 2009 Books and Reading

You know those books you’ve had in your TBR for a while now? You know, the ones that are way at the back, buried deep within the stack of books that partially block the way into the guest room? Yes, those books. The ones you bought a long, long time ago. You’ve been meaning to [...]

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Incoming! The Strain, by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

June 12, 2009 Incoming!

Incoming! is a feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles new books that have arrived in the Ms. Bookish household. Here’s the latest new arrival:
The Strain, by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
About the Book:
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades [...]

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Incoming! Wondrous Strange, by Lesley Livingston

June 1, 2009 Incoming!

Incoming! is a feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles new books that have arrived in the Ms. Bookish household. Here’s the latest new arrival:
Wondrous Strange, by Lesley Livingston
About the Book:
Kelley Winslow is living her dream. Seventeen years old, she has moved to New York City and started to work with a theatre company. Sure, she’s [...]

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More Library Decadence

April 22, 2009 Books and Reading

After my recent Library Loot post, I really didn’t think I could have that many more hold requests at the library coming in. I haven’t had a chance to read ANY of the books from that batch, with the exception of an audiobook, a BBC Radio Production of Agatha Christie’s The Caribbean Mystery (it helped [...]

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Friday Finds – Lots of Fantasies

February 6, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s time for Friday Finds again! Here are the books I’ve discovered this week, that I’d love to add to my TBR pile:
Fantasy/Young adult: Family Bones, by Kimberly Raiser (discovered at Marta’s Meanderings)
Young adult: Jellicoe Road, by Melina Marchetta (discovered at The Children’s Literature Book Club)
Children’s book: Indigo’s Star, by Hilary McKay (discovered at Book [...]

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Mailbox Monday – A Big List

January 26, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s Mailbox Monday again – this is where I get the chance to list all the books that came into the house this past week.
This past week, I more or less made up for the the sparse new arrivals a few Mondays ago
I made the mistake of ambling over to Chapters.ca to buy a few [...]

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Mailbox Mondays

January 19, 2009 Books and Reading

It’s Mailbox Monday again, and here’s what arrived at the Ms. Bookish household this past week!
Young adult/Mystery: Skeleton Creek, by Patrick Carman. This one is an ARC courtesy of the author. I’m very excited about this book because of the interactive video component – my daughter isn’t a big reader, but she’s a filmmaker [...]

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Under the Christmas Tree …

January 9, 2009 Books and Reading

This is a bit late, but I have an excuse, since I wasn’t actually here after Christmas to write this post and Disney, incredibly enough, actually charges a daily fee for online access, so I also have an excuse for not writing this post while I was away on holiday. Not that I need an [...]

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Review: Savvy, by Ingrid Law

December 14, 2008 Books and Reading
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Mailbox Monday: Another Eclectic Mix

December 1, 2008 Books and Reading

It’s Mailbox Monday again, and here’s what arrived in Ms. Bookish’s household this past week:
Mystery/Thriller: The Book of Lies, by Brad Meltzer.
Chick Lit/Mystery: Big Boned, by Meg Cabot
General fiction/Holidays: The Christmas Train, by David Baldacci
Young adult/Fantasy: The Dragonfly Pool, by Eva Ibbotson
Thriller/Suspense: The Fire, by Katherine Neville
Romance: Sundays at Tiffany’s, by James Patterson and Gabrielle [...]

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Mailbox Monday: An eclectic mix

November 24, 2008 Books and Reading

It was a busy week this past week for incoming books, with, it seems like, a little bit of everything. I’ve already mentioned some of the books that arrived this past week, in last week’s Friday Finds post, so I won’t mention them again here (including some romance/chick lit – I just noticed there’s none [...]

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Friday Finds: A Fantastical Week

November 21, 2008 Books and Reading

My list this week includes several fantasy books – making it a fantastical week! Almost all the items in the list have come from blog hopping – lots of fabulous book blogs out there, reading some really wonderful books that are very definitely new-to-me.
From Stella Matutina’s great list of Fantasy Picks for the Holidays Part [...]

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Review: The Riddles of Epsilon, by Christine Morton-Shaw

November 19, 2008 Books and Reading

Ms. Bookish’s Quick Take: This is a children’s fantasy set in modern times that had some great spooky moments. The plot is enticing, there is a good old-fashioned battle between the forces of good and evil, and a couple of twists in the ending came as nice surprises. This book is definitely Recommended. See [...]

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From the Stacks Reading Challenge

November 9, 2008 Books and Reading

It’s time for some fun! I just discovered the From the Stacks Reading Challenge. The rules are pretty simple: pick five books from your to-be-read pile – meaning, books you already have – and read them all between November 1 and January 30.
I have a massive TBR pile, and this morning I had a ton [...]

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Review: The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart

November 4, 2008 Books and Reading

Ms. Bookish’s Quick Take: I know, I know. The Mysterious Benedict Society has been all the rage, and it’s taken me a while to get to it. But read it I did, this past week, and I am very very glad that I did. You know the book that was capable of making [...]

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