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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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Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator, by Jennifer Allison [Visual Review]

May 4, 2011 Reviews

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Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator, by Jennifer Allison, has been on my TBR list for a while now. I finally started reading it a few days ago, and was really glad I did. I loved this book! Gilda is such a fun, quirky character.
I also recently stumbled on Austin Kleon’s blog [...]

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The Lineup, edited by Otto Penzler

October 4, 2010 Books and Reading

A couple of months ago, I bought The Lineup: The World’s Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives, edited by Otto Penzler. I decided to purchase it in ebook format, so it’s been sitting there on my iPhone, ready for me to dip into whenever I’m in the mood.
If you love [...]

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Kobo eReader, and What I’ve Been eReading

August 30, 2010 Books and Reading

I was given a Kobo eReader for my birthday and yes, it’s definitely been keeping me busy!
I was able to move my library of ePubs bought from the Sony Reader Store onto my Kobo eReader – it was something I could have done before on my iPhone, by moving the ePubs to the Stanza app, [...]

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[TSS] Incoming! The Library Edition

March 21, 2010 Incoming!

This was a great week for me, library-wise – I had a bunch of holds come in, and then while I was doing my usual dash-in, dash-out to pick up my holds, I of course managed to snag a few more interesting titles.
Here are this week’s library treasures. First up, the print books:
Neverwhere, by Neil [...]

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Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks

March 12, 2010 Books and Reading

I really love it when things show up in my life that are such a good match to something I’ve been pondering, or thinking about doing.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about keeping a journal, and I talked about my idea that I might have luck, finally, with journaling if I just let [...]

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[TSS] A Little Bit Holds Happy

January 17, 2010 Books and Reading

These past six months or so, I’ve really been getting a lot of use out of my library card. Ever since I signed up for Library Elf, that wonderful service that sends out reminder emails about books coming due or overdue, I’ve even managed to keep my library fines down to a minimum (you don’t [...]

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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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The Boy Sherlock Holmes: Eye of the Crow, by Shane Peacock

December 11, 2009 Books and Reading

Despite appearances, I’ve actually had some time to read lately. Maybe “had some time to read” isn’t totally accurate – it’s been more like “squeezed some time to read” but regardless, it’s the end result that counts, right?
And I’ve been lucky, because everything I’ve picked up to read recently has turned out to be a [...]

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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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The Likeness, by Tana French

November 17, 2009 Books and Reading

In The Likeness, by Tana French, we meet up with Cassie Maddox again, this time without her former police partner Rob Ryan by her side.
The body of a murder victim has been discovered in the ruins of an old cottage in a village outside Dublin. Not only is the woman Cassie’s virtual twin but the [...]

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Chris Grabenstein and the John Ceepak Novels

October 10, 2009 Books and Reading

Okay, I’m having a real fangirl moment here. Seriously.
I just stumbled on Part 1 and Part 2 of an interview with author Chris Grabenstein at M.J. Rose’s Buzz, Balls & Hype, as part of Gregory Huffstutter’s The Ad Man Answers feature.
Thanks to Beth Fish Reads, my biggest reading “find” of the year so far has [...]

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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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Saturday Thoughts

October 3, 2009 Books and Reading

I haven’t done a Saturday “this is what’s going on with me” post for ages, so I figured it was about time. And after this week, I actually might be posting something like this regularly on Saturday – because starting next Saturday, I’ll have more time.
The Big List of Book Giveaways
Why will I have more [...]

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The Brutal Telling, by Louise Penny

October 2, 2009 Books and Reading

In Louise Penny’s fifth Chief Inspector Gamache book, The Brutal Telling, the village of Three Pines is once again witness to murder. And perhaps “witness” is too light a word, because the body of the victim is found on the floor of the bistro owned by Olivier and Gabri, the bistro that is very much [...]

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Review: A Date You Can’t Refuse, by Harley Jane Kozak

September 30, 2009 Books and Reading

In A Date You Can’t Refuse, by Harley Jane Kozak, greeting-card artist Wollie Shelley is made an offer she can’t refuse: the FBI wants her to be a cooperative witness and infiltrate the offices of MediaRex, as MediaRex’s newest “social coach”. In return, the FBI will ensure that Wollie’s brother, who suffers from schizophrenia, will [...]

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Allergies, Lots of Reading, and Finishing a DNF

September 28, 2009 Books and Reading

After looking forward to The Word on the Street all week, we all ended up missing the entire event. On Saturday, with the colder weather and the rain, allergies began hitting us – not the tiny-sniffle type of allergies, but full blown sinus-pressure, drippy nose (you wanted to hear that one, didn’t you?), cough [...]

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BBAW: Because She Introduced Me To Ceepak

September 17, 2009 Blogging and Blog Events

Thank you, Beth Fish Reads!
Back in early June, Beth Fish Reads wrote a post about the John Ceepak mysteries by Chris Grabenstein. I trust her implicitly, and at the time I was just in the beginning stages of my love affair with audiobooks, so I was very intrigued, because she’d listened to the series in [...]

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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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Review: In the Woods, by Tana French

August 13, 2009 Books and Reading

In 1984, three children walked into the woods surrounding the suburban estate they lived in; when they failed to come home, police and community came together to search for them. One of the children was found, standing paralyzed against a tree, wearing shoes that had been filled with blood. The boy is catatonic and when [...]

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Review: The Mysterious Mr. Quin, by Agatha Christie

August 3, 2009 Books and Reading

The Mysterious Mr. Quin, by Agatha Christie
A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invites [...]

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Review: Tilt-a-Whirl, by Chris Grabenstein

July 29, 2009 Books and Reading

Danny Boyle is a 24-year-old part-time cop in the summer resort town of Sea Haven. His partner is John Ceepak, a former military police officer just back from Iraq who is also new to the Sea Haven police department. This summer, though, things are heating up in the usually quiet tourist town: Reggie Hart, a [...]

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Review: Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, by Janet Evanovich

July 21, 2009 Reviews

In Janet Evanovich’s Finger Lickin’ Fifteen, Stephanie Plum’s good friend Lula has just witnessed a murder – and the murderers have witnessed her witnessing the murder. The murder victim turns out to be a Food Channel celebrity chef, and despite Lula’s eyewitness account, the murderers are still on the loose … and coming after Lula, [...]

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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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Incoming! Angel’s Advocate by Mary Stanton

July 14, 2009 Incoming!

Incoming! is a feature at Ms. Bookish that chronicles new books that have arrived in the Ms. Bookish household.
Angel’s Advocate, by Mary Stanton
About the Book:
Money’s been tight ever since Bree Winston Beaufort inherited Savannah’s haunted law firm Beaufort & Company along with its less-than-angelic staff. But she’s finally going to tackle a case that [...]

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[TSS] More Beach Reads, Movies and Writing (Not Really)

July 5, 2009 Books and Reading

Not very original, I know, but I can’t believe how this week has just flown by. I seem to be caught up in a routine of eating, drinking, reading and relaxing, not necessarily in that order.
My husband is on his way back from the fish market right now, with fresh lobster and deep fried clams, [...]

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Vacation Reading List

June 25, 2009 Books and Reading

I’ve finally pared down my vacation reading list – room is limited, unfortunately, so I had to be very selective. Here’s what I’ll be taking with me on holidays.
Print books:

Audiobooks:

Ebooks:

I’m probably not going to be able to read all of these books, but I figure I’ll have something for nearly every reading mood that strikes [...]

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What’s Up Sunday – June 14

June 14, 2009 Books and Reading

I normally post this as “What’s Up Saturday”, but yesterday kind of flew by really quickly, especially since I was behind on the big giveaways post.
Deadline Alley
I’m heading into Deadline Alley over the next ten days – I have five deadlines to lay to rest and I’d like to get everything finished by next Wednesday. [...]

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