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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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Another Saturday Random

February 19, 2011 Random Stuff

A Clean Desk
So yesterday I came downstairs in the morning, and discovered that my husband, who’s been getting up at 5 in the mornings for the past month, had decided to surprise me and clean up the office.
And not just the office, but my desk, too!
I will just say here that after three and [...]

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Insatiable, by Meg Cabot

October 17, 2010 Books and Reading

I am a huge Meg Cabot fan, so it’s probably not surprising that I quite liked Insatiable, which I read last month (I’d put in my hold request quite early at my library).
Having said that, I can kind of understand why it’s had some mixed reviews (I haven’t actually read any full blog reviews yet, [...]

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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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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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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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