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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 oath, Cade [...]

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Reading The Lost Symbol, by Dan Brown

May 31, 2010 Books and Reading

I’ve been reading Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol.
I found the book extremely exciting; it’s definitely a real page turner.
I really enjoyed all the research, too. I was very tempted several times while reading to stop for a moment and go to the computer to Google some of the things that Brown talks about in the [...]

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Review: The Strain, by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan

July 28, 2009 Books and Reading

A Boeing 777 packed full of passengers lands at JFK and begins its way across the tarmac when it suddenly stops dead – the engine’s turned off, all window shades are down, all the lights are off, and no-one on board is communicating with the outside world, not even passengers screaming about delays through their [...]

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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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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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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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TSS: Currently reading Brown, Cabot, Fowler and Neville

December 7, 2008 Books and Reading

It’s Sunday again – time most definitely has been flying by. I’m currently reading four books, but this week is a hectic week for me in terms of editorial deadlines, so I’m not sure how many of these I will be able to finish up and review by this time next Sunday.
But there’s just something [...]

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Review: The Book of Lies, by Brad Meltzer

December 2, 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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The Sunday Salon – Currently Reading: Book of Lies, Casting Spells and The Fire

November 30, 2008 Books and Reading

I am currently reading a fun stash of books right now, and the only reason why I haven’t finished any of them is because I haven’t had a good block of time to do so. I keep my “currently reading” books in different rooms of the house, and tend to just pick up whatever book [...]

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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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